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January 23, 2016
Venus Flytraps Are Even Creepier Than We Thought
It struggles, knocking the trigger hairs even further and sending off more electrical impulses, around one per minute. The third impulse raises the trap’s calcium levels even further, prompting it to produce a hormone called jasmonate. In many plants, jasmonate is a touch hormone, which is released by wounds and injuries and coordinates programs of defense and repair. In the Venus fly trap, jasmonate doubles as a carnivory hormone. It primes the gland cells in the trap to start making digestive enzymes, which they finally do once they detect a fifth electrical impulse. - The Atlantic
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Looks like Caitlin on a good night.
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at January 23, 2016 1:12 PM
The American variant is called the Penus Flytrap, (developed by the haughty culturist William Clinton), which jams men's pants' zippers before eating the metal components and nearby fauna.
This is the main reason that the new fashion for men in America is skirts.
Posted by: Stug Guts at January 27, 2016 8:26 PM