Elefanten spüren und zeigen Mitgefühl für Artgenossen.

Schweine schreien grässlich, wenn ihr Nachwuchs in Mastbetrieben von ihnen entfernt werden, um ihnen bei lebendigem Leib den Ringelschwanz unbetäubt abgeschnitten wird.

Raben gelten als hochintelligent, Orang-Utan ebenso.

Bäume kommunizieren unterirdisch miteinander und anderen Baum- und Pflanzenarten ("Wood Wide Web").

Pflanzen erkennen ("hören") den Unterschie, ob eine Biene zum Bestäuben an ihre Blüten fliegt, oder ein Insekt, das für die Bestäubung keine Rolle spielt.

Wie definieren wir eigentlich "Intelligenz"?

Was macht "Non-Human-Intelligence" aus?

Und auch bei menschlicher "Intelligenz" ist eine eindeutige Begriffsdefinition gar nicht so einfach.

mastodon.ie/@clickhere/114556194997070417

#Intelligenz #TierischeIntelligenz #FaunaIntelligenz #FloraIntelligenz #WoodWideWeb #NonHumanIntelligence #KünstlicheIntelligenz

@animalculum Reminds me of ecologist Merlin Sheldrake's videos "communicating" with #fungi sounds. Sound #ecologist Michael Prime uses electrodes which detect the bioelectric activity of the fungus and control a tunable oscillator.

So they change oyster #mushroom bioelectricity from devouring Merlin's book into sounds and he played piano with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAnGAtSSgE

BTW, 'Entangled Life' is a great book about fungi!

#woodWideWeb #communication #bookstodon #sporespondence #music

#WoodWideWeb #forests #trees

"Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests.

'We now see the forest not as a mere collection of individuals, but as an orchestra of phase correlated plants,' Alessandro Chiolerio, Italian Institute of Technology and University of the West of England, and the study co-leader, said in a statement.

An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia built custom sensors and placed them across a forest in the Dolomite mountains in Italy. Using the sensors, the team recorded simultaneous bioelectrical responses from the spruce trees.

Before and during the eclipse, electrical activity from individual trees became 'significantly' more synchronized, the researchers found. This phenomenon, they say, is evidence the forest is a unified living system.

'By applying advanced analytical methods — including complexity measures and quantum field theory — we have uncovered a deeper, previously unrecognized dynamic synchronization not based on matter exchanges among trees,' Chiolerio said."

https://www.space.com/stargazing/solar-eclipses/hours-before-a-solar-eclipse-spruce-trees-talk-to-each-other

Esto me tiene #toloco esta mañana. ¿Se enteran los bosques de un eclipse de sol?¿Los predicen incluso?¿Se lo cuentan unos árboles a otros? Lo último es lo más entendible, eso de la #WoodWideWeb. Pero leo esto sobre una investigación en bosques de píceas y no sé qué decir...
"Forest in sync: Spruce trees communicate during a solar eclipse
A ground breaking international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082082

It's talking, Merry! The tree is talking!

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-forest-sync-spruce-trees-communicate.html?ICID=ref_fark

"Basically, we are watching the famous 'wood wide web' in action."

"We now see the forest not as a mere collection of individuals, but as an orchestra of phase-correlated plants.

Professor Gagliano said the findings support calls for the preservation of wise old trees."

Treebeard approves.

#Trees #Tree #Forest #WoodWideWeb #Eclipse

www.linkedin.com/posts/gpi205... #WoodWideWeb #EnergyNetworkScience

In a forest, trees communicate...

I joined Mastodon over five years ago, when I was doing a project about shared networks of trees and fungi often called the 'wood wide web'. I made artworks about community, digital and forest networks. For that project I worked with a volunteer tree planting organisation in Northumberland, UK called Kielderhead Wildwood.

This year, I have been invited back to revisit the same site, and have found myself reflecting on what has changed in networks since then.

#WoodWideWeb

Sortie d'une étude fascinante du SPUN sur les échanges Plantes-Fungis. La mise en lumiére de ce commerce par vagues (ondulatoire) par un ingenieux automate conçu pour l'occasion permettant de capturer des timelapses de cette communication bidirectionnelle.
Je serais toujours aussi envouté par ce Wood Wide Web et le paralléle possible, presque psychanalytique, entre les AMF et les réseaux P2P.

Un article clef et stimulant à lire absolument:
www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08614-x


youtu.be/tOUhu2tXIWg

Cc: @denissalem @from_Otterspace @tcrouzet @nitot @fmartin1954 @bayartb @yannlaffont

#mycology #mycologie #woodwideweb #ecologie #nature

🌿 La rete invisibile della natura e il bufalo nel fango

Ci sono pensieri che nascono da un dettaglio e si intrecciano in un viaggio inatteso.
La natura è un linguaggio segreto, fatto di connessioni invisibili e istinti primordiali.

A volte basta un attimo per trovarsi immersi in qualcosa di molto più grande.

🔗 Se ti va, leggi il link qui sotto.
Grazie 🌹

#Natura #Connessioni #Empatia #Riflessioni #WoodWideWeb #Neuroscienze #Micelio #EsseriViventi #Biologia 

https://michiyospace.altervista.org/la-trama-sotterranea-della-vita-il-micelio-il-bufalo-e-la-lotta-per-esistere/

#WoodWideWeb means that in a #forest, no tree is alone. Fascinating and I try to remember that I too am connected in many ways to many others. We are never alone. I will try to honor and grow those connections.

https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/underground-mycorrhizal-network

The Truth About the Wood Wide Web - Justine Karst - @Sentientism episode 220

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_n516nANw

"Justine is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. She studies the mycorrhizal ecology of forests. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and Vice President of the International Mycorrhiza Society."

Site to follow: https://sentientism.info/

#sentientism #mycology #forests #woodWideWeb #mycorizzhal #roots #biocentrism #motherTree #ecology

#WoodWideWeb means that in a #forest, no tree is alone. Fascinating and I try to remember that I too am connected in many ways to many others. We are never alone. I will try to honor and grow those connections.

https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/underground-mycorrhizal-network

Nur ein Mythos ? Waldbäume sind über Wurzelpilz-Geflechte verbunden und sollen darüber sogar kommunizieren und Nährstoffe austauschen. Doch ein Experiment widerlegt nun dieses „Wood Wide Web“. #Mykorrhiza #Wald #Wurzelpilz #Wurzelsymbiose #WoodWideWeb
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/wie-weit-reicht-das-wood-wide-web/

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web
#woodwideweb

Aren't trees great. Trees in London have saved 153 lives over the course of an 8 year period:

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/trees-saved-lives-london-3017019

Although the idea of the 'wood-wide web' may be a bit of an exageration, it seems:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/23/mother-trees-and-socialist-forests-is-the-wood-wide-web-a-fantasy

#PlantScience #trees #london #woodwideweb