Justine Calma, for The Verge, summarizing research from Tel Aviv University:

Tomato and tobacco plants in particular make clicking sounds when they’re dehydrated or being cut [. . .] Distress sounds were more prolonged for plants deprived of water. They made increasingly more noise in the first few days without water, reaching a crescendo before quieting as they dried out.

Seeing this after reading about the “panpsychist” movement earlier this week is striking me as incredibly sad.