This need for sophisticated mimicry may partially explain why yellow-naped Amazons and some other parrots can closely imitate a wide range of sounds — including the human voice.
As a result, immune cells mistakenly attack and destroy the myelin sheath and this is called molecular mimicry, because from the perspective of the immune cells a host substance is mimicking a foreign protein.
Whatever the purpose — self-defense, parasitism or mimicry, plants have been chatting and eavesdropping in complex social networks since long before Facebook, texting or even — beep.
In the hearing today, senators raised a series of concerns about this technology, among them, how this example of voice mimicry could be used to spread disinformation.