Plants have many ways of moving their bodies like roots and phototropism, in addition to an infinite variety of dispersal & reproductive mechanisms which arguably are how plants ‘move around’. (Consider computer programs: they ‘move’ almost solely by copying themselves and deleting the original. It is rare to move a program by physically carrying around RAM sticks or hard drives.) Fungi likewise often have flagellum or grow in addition to all their sporulation and their famous networks.
Hard to say. Oyster larvae are highly mobile and move their bodies around extensively both to eat and to find places to eventually anchor to, but I don’t know how I would compare that to spores or seeds, say, or to lifetime movement; and oysters “move their bodies around” and are not purely static—they would die if they couldn’t open and close their shells or pump water. (And all the muscle they use to do that is why we eat them.)
Um, plants and fungi?
Plants have many ways of moving their bodies like roots and phototropism, in addition to an infinite variety of dispersal & reproductive mechanisms which arguably are how plants ‘move around’. (Consider computer programs: they ‘move’ almost solely by copying themselves and deleting the original. It is rare to move a program by physically carrying around RAM sticks or hard drives.) Fungi likewise often have flagellum or grow in addition to all their sporulation and their famous networks.
Are they more or less mobile than, say, oysters?
Hard to say. Oyster larvae are highly mobile and move their bodies around extensively both to eat and to find places to eventually anchor to, but I don’t know how I would compare that to spores or seeds, say, or to lifetime movement; and oysters “move their bodies around” and are not purely static—they would die if they couldn’t open and close their shells or pump water. (And all the muscle they use to do that is why we eat them.)
Whoops. I meant “land animal” like my prior sentence.
I thought as much ;)