Atmospheric Slapping Tournament

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• ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly! I’ve said this for years, every time the meme comes up. I’m saying it right now to anyone nearby.

  I mean, I have no real basis to know if canopy friction is the reason or not but I’m saving this post as support of my confirmation bias anyway.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s sort of how trees don’t have limbs lower than the height of a box truck along major roads.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So trees have evolved truck-sensing organs in the span of mere decades? Unbelievable!

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not really. Along most major roads, if trees are close enough to even potentially be a problem, they will be trimmed by road crews.

      It’s not because they get hit by trucks, it’s because they’re deliberately trimmed back to keep the road clear.

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apparently that’s the leading theory, but another is just that for reasons I am absolutely unqualified to explain, they sense light in specific ways that causes them to grow differently once they get close enough to another tree blocking some of the light there.

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    • ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like a houseplant angling toward the window light?

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So is there some research showing it’s caused by damage? That should be easy to confirm, right?

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    apparently not, as it remains uncertain. there are hypotheses though, one of which is referred to in this meme: winds cause collisions which cause abrasions and damage, which result in crown shyness.

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• btsax@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Has no one ever been in a forest before? Trees 100% grow all up into each other all the time. They compete for sunlight and try to choke each other out by design. These pictures honestly don’t look real

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  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a thing, not an evident everywhere, the photos look less weird if you zoom in a bit it’s mostly thw wide angle lenses imo

    interesting reading, if a bit brief, im sure you could find lots of research on this

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

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    • btsax@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yes, “trees of the same species” is the key piece of missing information in the meme

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good band name

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  • Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just let the tips touch

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We are a product of the forces that shape us.

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