Роман Фишман
Листья «кричат», цветы «слышат», а деревья в лесу общаются через собственный «интернет» — надо только знать, как заглянуть в их тайную жизнь.
The leaves “scream”, the flowers “hear”, and the trees in the forest communicate through their own “Internet” – one only needs to know how to look into their secret life. This article in the widely read Russian magazine discusses plant communication and mentions Phytl Signs.
We are all chauvinists. Considering ourselves the pinnacle of evolution, we distribute all living things in a hierarchy in terms of the degree of closeness to ourselves. Plants are so unlike us that they seem to be not quite alive. No accounts are given to the Noah’s biblical account of their salvation on board the ark. Modern vegans do not consider it shameful to deprive them of their lives, and fighters against the exploitation of animals are not interested in “plant rights”. In fact, they do not have a nervous system, eyes and ears, they can not hit or run away. All this makes plants different – but not inferior. They do not lead the passive existence of a “vegetable”, but they feel the surrounding world and react to what is happening around. In the words of Professor Jack Schultz, “plants are just very slow animals.”
Read the full article including comments about Phytl Signs in Russia’s version of Popular Mechanics Elementy.ru