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New Study Finds Plants Can Learn

Saturday, January 18, 2014 16:15
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Far from the unfeeling and dumb organisms that some people once thought plants were, it was recently discovered that a species of Mimosa can actually learn and remember. Add this is the fact that plants not only hear, but also speak to each other, and it demonstrates that plants display a level of consciousness that modern science has only just begun to understand. From Sci-News.com:

By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learnt behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully demonstrated that Mimosa pudica – an exotic herb native to South America and Central America – can learn and remember just as well as it would be expected of animals.

Mimosa pudica at the Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany. Image credit: H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0.

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