Natural History Wanderings

NewsBreak and GreenMatters reported

Beyond the naked eye of humans, plants live in a fascinating world of fantasy. Unfathomable to human imagination, plants usually remain surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that hang in the air. Whenever an insect or an animal attacks a plant, the injured plant silently alerts its fellow plants to activate their defense mechanism. A team of Japanese researchers recently explored this phenomenon of plant chattering and published some noteworthy findings in the journal Nature Communications, with a YouTube video.

Read more at  Scientists Just Found Out Plants ‘Talk’ to Each Other — Especially About Their Natural Enemies – NewsBreak