Researchers recorded the sound of cabbage-white caterpillars munching on a cress plant. When played back to some other plants, they responded in exactly the same way. They immediately flooded their leaves with chemical defences to deter predators. We can never know what it is like to be a plant, but we can understand that we share the world with them. It's myopic of us not to take their experiences into account.
Alexandra Horowitz takes us inside the mind of a puppy. James Bridle introduces us to slime mold that can outwit the best human engineers. Justin Gregg makes the case that thinking like an animal is the key to living a good life. And Tom Mustill explains how a near-death encounter with a 30-ton whale led him to the scientists who are building Google Translate for animal languages.
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