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Do trees have brains and talk to each other? They are intelligent, express emotions and make friends
Daily Mail ^ | P Wohllenbeen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: trees
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To: Berlin_Freeper
You get a lot of interesting results when news googling tree. Some of it not too happy.
61 posted on 09/17/2016 2:40:42 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Maybe the Spruce is pining for the fjords.


62 posted on 09/17/2016 2:43:31 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: dr_lew

YOUTUBE: Rush-The Trees


63 posted on 09/17/2016 2:45:54 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Trees talk! You can hear them when they rustle their leaves together. 😀
64 posted on 09/17/2016 2:46:02 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: DUMBGRUNT

tree in my back yard keeps telling me: “I AM GROOT!”


65 posted on 09/17/2016 3:42:28 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Trees frequently commune with Keebler Elves.


66 posted on 09/17/2016 4:05:38 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: PrairieLady2

Is it the trees moving what makes the wind blow?


67 posted on 09/17/2016 4:49:39 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Celerity

Yes but due to their longevity we will have to wait decades for their votes to arrive ...


68 posted on 09/17/2016 5:29:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One of the oldest living things on earth.If you think about it, a perfect predator, no need to chase just waits them out then it absorbs their material. CREEPY.


69 posted on 09/17/2016 5:42:07 AM PDT by HWGruene (REMEMBER THE ALAMO!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Trees do communicate.
They say, “Gimme a hug.”
Thats why we have tree huggers.


70 posted on 09/17/2016 5:52:12 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Too much anthropomorphism here. There is obviously communication between plants. Plants react to their environment. No doubt about it. They do this without a brain or central nervous system.
If you want to call this intelligence, do so, but your concept of intelligence is overly broad.


71 posted on 09/17/2016 5:57:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: roadcat

Since all life, except those weird tubes at the bottom of the ocean that live by consuming hydrocarbons venting from the earth’s sub-oceanic crust, survives by consuming other life then for moral consistency vegetarians should give up eating altogether and die. Their “precious bodily fluids” (”Think of it Mandrake, little children’s ice cream!”) would be returned in partial payment for the millions of calories they’ve stolen from innocent plants and vegetables.


72 posted on 09/17/2016 6:06:46 AM PDT by katana
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To: shibumi

I weep for our futures.


73 posted on 09/17/2016 6:40:41 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (That chicken necked buck tooth varmint Hillary is headed toward the nine circles of hell)
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To: bigtoona

And the parody;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQLccLYOYY


74 posted on 09/17/2016 7:02:05 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: right way right

The Forest People have a mixed reputation. The Clay People believe them to be strange but honest people. Queen Azura, however, knows them as the most savage nation on Mars, and that those who enter the Forest Kingdom never return.


75 posted on 09/17/2016 7:02:59 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Talisker
The Secret Life of Plants

Published March 8, 1989

Then this is all settled science!

Looks to be a fun read.

76 posted on 09/17/2016 7:11:16 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Ode to a Dead Tree
By Gary North

I think that I shall never see A sight as lovely as a tree: A tree cut down for pulp and boards, Cut down for profit and rewards.

Whenever forests disappear To fill a bookstore front to rear, The angels sing a glorious song, Especially if the books are long.

When trees grow high above the earth I love to estimate their worth. I praise the chainsaw and the axe, Converting trees to paperbacks.

I love to contemplate bare hills, Solutions to society’s ills. For every tree dragged out by hooks May soon become a shelf of books.

When men cry “Timber!” I rejoice, A perfect use for human voice. The sound of buzz saws is symphonic As long as books remain dendronic.

I think of trees throughout the ages Especially as I’m turning pages: Majestic trees in ageless mists Transformed into best-sellers’ lists.

Down my spine I get the shivers: Giant forests into slivers! Forests growing through long winters; Spring will see them all in splinters.

The thought of trees cut down for wood, Serving man as nature should, Literate mankind now confesses: “Cut the trees and start the presses!”


77 posted on 09/17/2016 7:13:49 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Ken H
Trees don’t talk. They bark.

NICE!!!
Very nice.

78 posted on 09/17/2016 7:15:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: clearcarbon

The Forest People are trees, and they are not so nice.

The Forest People have a mixed reputation. The Clay People believe them to be strange but honest people. Queen Azura, however, knows them as the most savage nation on Mars, and that those who enter the Forest Kingdom never return. Azura’s opinion may be tainted since the Forest People were immune from her magic power, owing to their possession of the sacred black sapphire. Prince Barin of Mongo believed he could befriend the Forest People, but was proven wrong when they took him prisoner.


79 posted on 09/17/2016 7:17:30 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: bluejean
Wooden Lives Matter and try to outlaw the use of lumber.

That statement can be read in many ways?

...more than four hours, call your doctor immediately ...
Or a tree surgeon?

80 posted on 09/17/2016 7:22:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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