It's often assumed that plants boring, sedentary, and solitary organisms, but new research (or old research reexamined) changes that. Plants communicate, the mount defenses against predators; they seemingly act in concert with one another, though other hypotheses call into question the intentionality of such communication.
Quanta magazine has a recent article titled "The Secret Language of Plants" detailing some new research.
PBS's Nature has a full episode online- What Plants Talk About.
Both provide a fascinating look into a normally overlooked part of our world.
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