The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Audience Favourites
Nov 8, 2023
This episode features the audience's favorite clips from The Infinite Monkey Cage, including licking rocks for age determination, the age rivalry between Robin and Brian, a fly landing in wine, and the excitement of chatty trees. Topics covered in different episodes include the Wood Wide Web, the history of rock, the role of the North, dinosaurs, flies, and the science of laughter.
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- Plants communicate with each other through symbiotic relationships, exchanging resources like water and carbon, forming a complex communication web.
- Geologists use taste as a tool to identify rocks, analyzing texture and grain size to classify them accurately, a unique methodology that requires training.
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Communication among plants through micro-risile networks
Plants communicate with each other through micro-risile networks, which are symbiotic relationships with fungi. This communication occurs through the exchange of resources such as water, nutrients, and carbon, which can be compared to a language. For example, carbon compounds and amino acids serve as 'words' in this language. The communication goes beyond the transmission of resources and involves a back-and-forth conversation, leading to changes in behavior for both the sender and receiver of the messages. This communication network extends across species, linking plants together in a complex communication web.
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