[scooperx]

"Scream" is a sensationalist word, it anthromorphizes plants. You might as well say you can hear them sing Chop Suey's lyrics when they get cut down: Father, into your hands I commend my spirit Father, into your hands Why have you forsaken me? In your eyes forsaken me In your thoughts forsaken me In your heart forsaken me, oh

[crazygringo]

The start of the article is hilariously contradictory:

> They may be filling your house with deafening clicks...

> These noises are at about the volume of a normal human conversation...

[mdp2021]

The joke there is that for living entities as apparently quiet as plants human conversation level noise may seem a fracas.

Rephrased: "for the standards of a plant as we may have imagined it, those noises may seem deafening".

[aix1]

The story behind those lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P__qjVB9Tc