Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing
https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-made-from-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-recorded
Automated Summary
Pando, the world's largest single organism and an ancient aspen forest in Utah, has been recorded 'whispering' through its shared root system. Sound artist Jeff Rice used a hydrophone to capture these unique sounds, which could help scientists understand the inner workings of Pando's massive, hidden hydraulic system. The recordings, presented at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, also revealed an eerie low rumbling during a thunderstorm, possibly caused by the vibration of millions of leaves. These sounds might serve as a record of Pando's health and local biodiversity, providing valuable insights into this deteriorating, magnificent tree.
I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 0.15; 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip I do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).
https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/01/largest-organism-humongou...
Is the humongous fungus bigger than Pando? I had heard that Pando is the biggest living thing on earth some time ago.
By which degree does this article make Pando bigger than the humongous fungus?
Edit: Wikipedia agrees with the article saying that Pando is considered the biggest organism by mass. But it also says the humongous fungus could be up to 35000 tons, which is almost six times Pando's mass
Wikipedia only says it’s the largest tree by mass.
I bet the Earth chuckles at our attempts to label either of these the largest living things. I guess as Guinness Book entries go, these will do until something surpasses them. I've got to think that there is a more massive fungus in the Amazon for example.
Ugh, what a load of LLM. Here's the real link:
https://www.ecosystemsound.com/beneath-the-tree
I'm curious, what makes you think the OP is LLM generated?
This doesn't have the hallmarks of typical LLM blogspam to me, and has actual quotes from people involved and, best I can tell, an actual author on the byline.
My vitriol stems mainly from the number of ads.
But also, the title says "sound", so any text I have to sift through before getting to an actual sound is just, well, noise.
"Largest living thing" on url matching "science" ? Yeah blogspam.
The definition is so loose that it could be talking about literally anything.
I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 1.5, 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).
https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-made-from-the-w...
If your article is going to talk about haunting sounds, I expect at least a small soundbite without having to click deeper.
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