My phone also screams (signals) when someone calls, must mean my phone feels pain I guess.
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I remember this mythbusters episode. They basically detected that plants “might “ scream or signal to other plants. They got some weird outliers too.
You misremember it a bit. They saw "activity" when the thing was connected to the plant. Then they moved the plant into a steel container and the readings stopped. They hypothesized that they detected something like vibrations from a busy street etc, not a plant "screaming".
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If this is interesting to you, you may also be interested to check out the book The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
Is it about people eating light?
Talk about fast food
For me the question is if plants can actually hear these distress sounds, otherwise it’s not really for communication.
They probably do. But even if not, it can be used for communication with insects and other animals.