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Holy fuck. That’s my hometown. We love parrot guy.

No problem :)

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Interesting, so the plant has evolved to deal with the stimulus from rain drops. Thanks for sharing!

Bro, humans are beings that can't be domesticated without incurring psychological damage.

Curious, did you enjoy being locked up in your house during the covid year? It's the same for these birds.

A quadricycle could work in a squeeze

>Gentle rain can close traps, but this is not a common event. The necessity of two or more stimuli to close a trap accounts for traps general lack of responsiveness to raindrops in light rainfall. Traps observed to be closed by raindrops began reopening in an average of 4.5 hours and full reopening averaged 15.8 hours.

>Only 6 to 12% of the traps in the field of view were closed by intense rain. Even rain so heavy that the traps were submerged in water left most of the traps open. Gentle rain can close traps, but this is not a common event.

• Research Gate

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352295766_Can_Venus_flytraps_be_triggered_to_close_by_raindrops#:~:text=Only%206%20to%2012%25%20of,is%20not%20a%20common%20event.

There's a guy on our team that dresses like a pirate!?

Yet I can swat my hand down fast as lightning and these little assholes would still get away.

Guy needs to learn how to rollerblade!

Its a damn shame yall are being downvoted. People care more about owning other living beings than those living beings well being. Fucking disgusting

A tricycle would do in a pinch

The actual traps/leaves last for up to three months. They can only be triggered a few times, but once they can't digest insects anymore they still stick around for a while, acting as regular leaves for photosynthesis, before they die off - the plant is constantly growing new ones.

The plants as a whole are actually pretty long lived - they're slow to mature and can live for 20+ years.

I seriously don’t know what you think I was implying more than what I’m writing lol, bit paranoid eh?

Sure I’m the one speaking nonsense “fam”

They digest insects in about 10 days. The traps can last a few months, but they can only be triggered so many times - it takes a lot of energy, and if they keep catching bugs it just gets harder for the planet to digest them every time as it can't remove the old dead insects, so at a certain point they become inactive and just serve as regular leaves for photosynthesis until they die off. The plant itself is constantly growing new traps and they can live for 20+ years.

This is the thing that blew my mind about them when I first got mine - they actually have a built-in timer to make sure they caught something living, and thus worth digesting.

When something first lands in one of the traps and touches a trigger hair, the plant does nothing - it has to sense two trigger hairs being touched within 20 seconds for it to snap shut, and then it has to sense more hairs being triggered - five in total - in order for it to tighten even more and then start digestion.

The video above actually only shows the first stage of the trap closing - if it was 30-60 seconds longer you would have seen the trap shut tighter, so there were no gaps left, as the flies kept moving around inside.

If a trap was accidentally triggered without live prey inside (like by a rain drop), or a fly managed to get out in time, then the trap would shut but when the plant didn't detect anything still moving inside it would open again slowly - takes about a day or two.

But don't trigger them on purpose - it takes a lot of energy for the plant to close and reopen them, and if it's not getting any food from the effort it could kill the plant.

The traps themselves can last for a few months before dying off and being replaced. They can only be triggered so many times though, so once they've opened and closed a few times they become inactive and basically just serve as normal leaves for photosynthesis.

Would heavy rain have the same affect and make the mouths close?

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Bull shit. You know what you were implying. Also applying human ethics to animals behaviors is how the world got this fucked up to start with. Some mother spiders get eaten by their young. Nature is brutal fam, why these animals evolved the way they did. We aren’t the judges of their societies or behaviors. You know what, fuck it fam. You have a good life. I’m done with your petty nonsense.

Looking at the title I was expecting something completely different

Except....Both cockatoos and macaws are types of parrots.

A 2fer

Be careful doing this. I used to take my dogs out sprinting all the time full speed (still do just not as fast) until I took a nasty fall. Luckily the dogs were not injured in the slightest and my meat crayoned legs healed overtime