Posted on 09/16/2016 9:38:24 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
There's increasing evidence to show that trees are able to communicate with each other. More than that, trees can learn.
The main reason humans cannot perceive how clever and complex they are is because we exist in such short time scales by comparison. There's a tree in Sweden for instance, a spruce, that is more than 9,500 years old. That's 115 times longer than the average human lifespan.
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Trees don’t talk. They bark.
Sounds like macro-aggression to me.
Pretty soon, we won’t be able to cut the grass anymore. The rats will have us for cruelty to plants. The obvious logical extension into the absurd.
Haven't they been spiking trees and doing stuff to sabotage/injure lumberjacks for years now?
They got nothin better to do.
Oh, yes. Walnut trees and related species release juglone. I had wondered why my hickory leaf / nut (husk) mulch seemed to do in our tomatoes, until I found this out. Now I just use it (the mulch) for a worm-bed.
And elven bakers, too.
Trees are meat eaters. In a sense. I have some fruit trees in my back yard. After one of my cats got sick and died, I buried her at the base of one fruit tree. The tree had a spurt of growth after that and never looked healthier. A brother-in-law is a vegetarian and was disgusted that I buried the cat there, let alone without a casket, and vows to never eat fruit from my trees. Guess he thinks the fruit would have meat from the cat in it. Vegetarians are nuts.
More likely the stump was a vampire beech sucking the life out of the surrounding live beech trees. Even though the surrounding trees longed for it to die off completely it would not.
“Grapes scream too. Well, actually they just let out a little wine...”
I understand that grapes can be quite wrathful.
I read the article. Based on the whimsical claims made, I think maybe someone has been smoking a little too much of a certain “tree” variety...
“Do trees have brains and talk to each other?........”
Their main communication method is ‘rooted’ in their ‘bark’, but if you ‘leaf’ them your number they may just ‘branch’ out and give you a ‘ring’.
*-no more puns today, I promise
Am so sorry about your cat. I used to have nothing to do with cats, and now have 5. We lost 3, I live in the country and have let them outside and think that the coyotes got them.
Just got two to replace them. Guess I will make them house cats.
My cats and dogs keep my bp down. Leftists drive it up.
I feel sorry for a tree that hates his neighbors. It’s not like they can move.
What a Pumpkin!
Slow animal ping
Maybe they thought of it as their son. Son of a beech.
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