October 8, 2016
by Raven Fon
Trees are scientifically proven to be WAY more intelligent than we ever imagined!
“They can feel pain, [and] have emotions, such as fear. Trees like to stand close together and cuddle. They love company and like to take things slow.” These are just some of tree-whisperer Peter Wohlleben’s findings. Peter is a German researcher who not only enjoy being surrounded by trees, he has devoted his life to studying them.
“There is in fact friendship among trees,” he says. “They can form bonds like an old couple, where one looks after the other. Trees have feelings.”
Intelligent Trees is a new documentary is by German forester, author, and tree expert, Peter Wohlleben, along with Suzanne Simard, who is an ecologist from the University of British Columbia. Watch the trailer below to get a glimpse into it.
“Trees like to stand close together and cuddle. They love company. They can feel pain, [and] have emotions, such as fear”
Not only that, but trees are also believed to have something similar to what we would call a heartbeat.
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