2006-09-25 02:43:50 · 9 answers · asked by ? 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Roses have thorns to protect them. Thorns ward off potential nibblers -- grazing animals like goats or cows who might eat rose plants for food. One mouth full of thorns, and they look elsewhere for dinner! Many plants have protective mechanisms like spines, thorns, and poison to ward off hungry herbivores. A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants.
2006-09-25 02:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Curious 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roses, we learn from The Little Prince, believe that thorns will protect them: that deer stop short of eating whole rose plants can be attributed to the thorns; for it usually at the first thorn that the nibbling stops.
2006-09-25 09:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep plant-eating animals from munching on it's leaves and stems. It's a defensive adaptation.
2006-09-25 09:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well...plants cannot cannot talk, or use body language...other than wilting. How else do you tell the world that you are feeling a little "thorny?" ; )
2006-09-25 11:00:12 · answer #4 · answered by Chistiaŋ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bodyguards they are, of the beautiful rose.
2006-09-25 09:48:17 · answer #5 · answered by Dilnawaz I 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To prevent humans from molesting them.
2006-09-25 09:51:55 · answer #6 · answered by retroman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep others away.
2006-09-25 11:40:45 · answer #7 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To no body ignorant touch it!! ;)
2006-09-25 09:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fatal attraction i might say
2006-09-25 12:19:29 · answer #9 · answered by Jubei 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋