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Do trees communicate?

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Uploaded on Nov 19, 2011

Root networks, trees, forest, mycorrhizae,

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  peterrespectneck 7 months ago

  trees dont communicate with sound but that doesnt mean sharing nutrients isnt communication! its like a deaf person giving another deaf person some food because they see their hungry! ive always known the forest grew in communities! all life works together! you can be scientific, philosophical or spiritual about it, but the whole world seeks to be in harmony because thats what benefits the whole world! its a shame people dont realise that and respect the web of existence like they should!

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  vedi10 7 months ago

  Reminds me of the planet "Pandora" from the movie Avatar. Everything, everyone connected to each other in a complex network. It looks very much like network of neurons in the brain, capillary network on the leaf, the river network of the Amazon or the structure of our Universe. One is only micro-meters wide, the other is billions of light-years across. They fit into the theory of fractals which says "fractals are typically self-similar patterns".

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  Robert Sundström 1 month ago

  Plants are able to communicate in many different ways. That has been proven. Some of them send out chemicals as a reaction when for example animal try to eat them. Other plants - typically of the same species - then react and act to protect themselves.

  Communication do in fact occur down to cellular level, beginning with individual cells and that is what make communication across what we call "individual organisms" possible. Ergo, our human bodies are composed of communcating cells.

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  vedi10 7 months ago

  So, it is always better to give a serious consideration to any theory or finding before rejecting it altogether. Otherwise, we are no different from those religious fanatics who rejects everything beyond their beliefs.

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  vedi10 7 months ago

  These networks show a pattern which can be compared to fractals. There are thousands of example of fractals patterns found in nature like, clouds river networks fault lines mountain ranges craters lightning bolts coastlines various vegetables (cauliflower and broccoli) animal coloration patterns Romanesco broccoli heart rates heartbeat earthquakes snow flakes crystals blood vessels and pulmonary vessels ocean waves DNA etc.

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  vedi10 7 months ago

  Do you know those religious fanatics for whom anything which doesn't support their rigid beliefs is considered the work of evil and not true, something 'pseudo'. You show such disposition towards science or may be in your case 'the lack of science'. Anyone who understands biology would know such complex network connections are common all over the biological world such as neurons in the brain, capillary network of the leaves, nervous system.

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  2Manolo3 7 months ago

  Indeed, this is old knowledge. It's ofcourse not language as we know it, but it is language in the oldest form. Chemical language! They are sending messages to each other so that they can both survive.

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