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Are animals better than plants? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Roslavets to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Animals are awesome! They can communicate and form social bonds, while plants are just, well, plants. Animals can move, hunt, and play, making them more dynamic and interesting than plants that just sit there. Sure, plants are cool and provide us with oxygen, but animals are just on another level. If you ask me, animals are definitely better than plants!

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[–] Helix@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Plants save our planet while humans are animals and destroy it. Therefore, they are superior to animals. Q.e.d.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

In a world without plants nearly all animals die. In a world without animals some plants don't reproduce.

[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can an animal create sugar from sunlight and carbon dioxide?

[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Can an animal live for hundreds of years while towering over everything else

[–] picoblaanket@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Animals are better at running, swimming, and playing piano.

Plants are better at blossoming and photosynthesis.

[–] allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

A lichen-covered sloth has entered the chat.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yup. Each is better at what it is good at. Neither is, strictly speaking, better than the other.

[–] Kajika@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Plants do communicate and form social bonds. (quick internet search : https://theconversation.com/plants-thrive-in-a-complex-world-by-communicating-sharing-resources-and-transforming-their-environments-156932)

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Whoever downvoted this doesn't understand plants and their interactions at all.

[–] Nugget2586@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

animals eat plants

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

plants were here first

[–] lxvi@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Things just are

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

who said plants can't communicate too?

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