Animals

"When a person returns to the state in which he was before the Fall, animals again approach him without fear.” - St Paisios

"They [animals] regard man as their God, that is why man should love them, because they are not looking forward to another Paradise." - St. Paisios

• Talking to them
• https://t3uncoupled.substack.com/p/conversations-with-ravens-and-other
• why queen bee lives longer
• snails and DHT
• humming bird highset metabolsim
• naked mole rats
• Purring heals bones

• God created multiple languages as punishment for man's pride
• Children intuitively speak to animals as equals; this is usually lost with age but sometimes retained in old age.
• Japanese folklore ("lost cat method"): asking stray cats for help with details of a missing cat often results in its return.
• Mainstream culture claims animals respond only to intonation and limited trained words; parrots/crows mimic without understanding.
• Ravens' singing, vocal fine-tuning, and greetings are intrinsically meaningful, self-rewarding, and context-appropriate (not mere mimicry).
• J.C. Bose first demonstrated plants' complex immune/sensory systems using his crescograph to record responses to stimuli (light, touch, injury).
• Plants lose leaf-closing response to touch when exposed to lidocaine. - Weigl (1968), Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung.
• Lidocaine applied to roots blocks shoot movements in plants. - Yokawa et al. (2017), Annals of Botany (doi:10.1093/aob/mcx155).
• Plants increase stress hormones when exposed to insect feeding vibrations. - Body et al. (2019), Front Plant Sci (doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00810).
• Plants produce sweeter nectar within minutes when played recordings of pollinating bee wingbeats. - Veits et al. (2019), Ecol Lett.
• Culture arbitrarily partitions consciousness, language, and comprehension among living beings. - Ray

• Many human utterances are incoherent mumbling with limited vocabulary, worse than some animal communication (e.g., Koko, kitten meows).