How Plants Communicate - REVIEW
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'You may not think of plants as particularly chatty or active organisms, but they’re not as passive as they might seem. Plants can’t run away, so they have to develop other strategies to stay alive, as James Cahill, an environmental plant ecologist at the University of Alberta, explains in “What Plants Talk About,” a documentary from the PBS show NATURE. They’ve evolved the use of chemicals to communicate with insects and each other in order to thrive. Here are five behaviors that show how active plants can be.'
1. PLANTS CAN CALL FOR HELP
2. PLANTS CAN EAVESDROP
3. PLANTS CAN DEFEND THEIR TERRITORY
4. PLANTS CAN RECOGNIZE THEIR SIBLINGS
5. PLANTS CAN COMMUNICATE WITH MAMMALS
REVIEW - This is not a movie but a documentary, but we decided to add it to our blog as it is absolutely fascinating! It reveals something most people are not aware of: that plants are intelligent! They an highly sensitive, they can have memories, they have a strong survival instinct, they can attack predators, they can communicate with each other and many of traits we would have thought impossible. All these traits are scientifically proven in the video, which is a great lesson for children to witness. This video is very useful for teaching children about the symbiotic relationship between the animal and plant world. It will also help them to understand that plants are not that different to animals: they've just got different characteristics because they're fixed to the ground.