Why do Trees Talk to Each Other?
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Why the forest is more than the trees
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Walk into any forest, and beneath your feet is an elaborate social network that helps make life on Earth possible. It’s called the “Wood Wide Web”, a massive and intricate network of fungi that exchange water, nutrients, and chemical signals with the plants they’re living in a symbiotic relationship with. This network of fungi is essential to the health and function of forests and to controlling climate change itself. You’re about to look at fungi in a whole new way!
#plants #fungi #woodwideweb
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For some reason, I can’t get my mouth to say “mycorrhizal” without it sounding like “microrrhizal”. Stupid mouth. Anyway, enjoy learning about the most important biological network no one pays attention to!
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Noice
At least you're talkin' about them. I think that it is more than about time that everyone became cognizant of the extent of their existence !
hi dude your videos are grate .i watch them .interesting
It's Okay To Be Smart I believe when we die we become trees and that’s why we bury people.
So there is a Wood Wide Weeb and they even have Hive-FI...🤔 wtf
I read the title aloud, and my friend responded, "Yes." with no hesitation.
I simply had to know.
i simply thought about the question in my head and received an answer via mycelial network.
a better answer is FINALLY im not the only. one who hears
Samuel mompremiere - You're friend is wise not smart. You can explain intelligence you can't explain wisdom. Throw away UA-cam not your friend.
Samuel mompremiere - don't listen to that Abdullah guy's comment, throw away UA-cam not your friend. And if you don't get it ask your mum😁
Mabye your friend had Eaten psyilosibin and took a night walk in the woods, it really feels like they are talking to you :D
Fun Fact
All Mushrooms are Edible but some can be only eaten once
:)
😂😂😂
Who r u tryna kill mate 😂
@@yashsinha3643 Hi Indian
Technically true
Alex, as a physician I groaned. I cannot argue! But I strongly advise against it, of course. I recommend getting a book that is a pictured guide to mushroom hunting or hire an experienced human mushroom hunter.
trees who send chemical attacks to the wood wide web are the same as internet trolls
More like harmful sites
they're simply too toxic
they are protecting themselves from other trees that would grow to close and take up some of their sunlight.
they wish
luciferangelica
Never forgetti
About swatting
He pronounces fungi 5 different ways in the span of 10 seconds lol😄
It seems on purpose
NVM just watched it, it was on purpose, still funny though
Well, it's 4
Fun-gee
Fun-guy
Fun-jee
Fun-ji
I am studying English phonetics at the moment, so I pay extra attention to how every word is pronounced. I was really suffering and trying to figure out why Joe sometimes pronounced "fungi" in a different way, thinking that perhaps a different context for the word would mean a different way of pronouncing the word.
Cover your bases
I'm glad someones talking about this. I think people often overlook how dynamic trees really are. And in understanding how active they are, people may come to appreciate them more.
I mean.. Without them.. Thered be no wifi
No doubt..things are not (only) what they seem!!
A lumberjack went in to a magic forest to cut a tree. Upon arrival, he started to swing at the tree, when it shouted, “Wait! I’m a talking tree!"
The lumberjack grinned, “And you will dialogue!"
This made me happy lol
fardeen ahmed, that was really bad but really good
You made my day😂
😂😂😂
Put this as my Whatsapp update...haven't laughed this hard in a minute
0:09 Joe: Trees can go to war.
Me: I wondered why my trees grew arms.
Omg im dying 😂
Am dying 😂😂😂
of course they can go to war, haven't you ever heard the trees speak vietnamese?
let's hope. in the enderverse on lucitania the pequinos go to war, which causes more of them to turn into trees, whenever the planet gets too warm
So the trees are former Vietcong soldiers?
The comment section is full of puns...
Pro-seed with caution.
StooP
@John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmitt co2 can be dangerous to the world tbh mate
@The Smell of Burnt Almonds why in this reaction?
@The Smell of Burnt Almonds yes bc thats all you can think
SOW CORNy
The first time I learned about this in a Radiolab episode it blew my MIND! This is such a cool discovery - love it!
Ok, I will!
SALMON TREES!!!!!
So cool!
Just listened to that episode this morning. "From Trees to Shining Trees" , almost presents the same info in the same order. Only thing different is the climate based fungal types.
@@max-beckett Exactly!
I beleaf that they do! They need to get to the root of each other's problems.
Nice to see Joe branching out in his research too :)
Ba-da-bum Tsshhhh
So MuCh PUnS....
I must have forgotten my passwood, I can't Log In!
wow.......
Trees talk about how they secretly plan to take over the world from humans who keep chopping them down
Well they better start putting some plans into action soon
Sam 88 maybe they already have, but through a diplomatic approach. When we trip on magic mushrooms or DMT it could actually be the plants way of communicating to us. That’s why after tripping people can have a greater desire to treat the world better and become all hippy like
I'm pretty sure the maples formed a union and demanded equal rights because the oaks were just too lofty, and they grabbed up all the light. We're just keeping them equal.
That's why they're releasing more CO2 into the air
@@Auto_Gnome I have had this thought before as well. Maybe all that chaos we see while we are tripping on DMT is actually trees and plants trying hard to send a message to us humans.
Do Trees Talk?
*Vietnam flashbacks*
Yes it reminds me about Viet Cong
It's ok cermet
It took me a full minute to understand de "fun-guy" joke
Coz ur probably not. 🤭
Oof, can’t beleaf you just said that. You’re such a birch!
I wooden’t do that because I’m a treemendous pearson. Cheer up TiaN, rootin’ for you!
Alright I’m done, logging off now ;)
@@MikkaPower lmao
I am not able to understand this rwply section
@@vaishalirandheer3048 don't worry. You wood soon understand. Lemme know if u need any help.
“Do trees talk?”
Groot: I am Groot!
lol. I'm stealin this.
Not funny
Didn’t laugh
Mario 3831 Well you’re lucky I didn’t make the comment for you then. :)
The more you study fungi, the more you start to believe they are conscious and aware neural networks.
I'm becoming convinced that the biosphere itself evolved to combat destructive species.
@@ethanwagner6418 It hasn't succeeded with us. But, it's working on it.
Then when you actually study biology you realize how stupid that is, and they're just cells that transmit hormones and respond to stimulus. There'd be no reason for mushrooms to evolve consciousness. Go easy on the shrooms JP.
TY for bringing this newer research to this channel. I read about this Two yrs ago. One of the foresters who was trying to tell the world about this has been ignored most of his career. He got a boost from a young female scientist who started studying trees when she was 10 yo. It took her a while to get credibility but her main general question she had an approximate answer. She had wondered if trees could “talk” to one another. She developed a simple chemical experiment and it was positive. Well that led to further questions and eventually university. She does meet this forester guy and he does collaborate with her. The world knows so much more now. She is who listened to the now old forester and then by his guidance began doing enlightening experiments that elucidated this fungi network. He also led her to other foresters that he had been in communication for many years across the world. She inspired other scientists to also study the forests’ roots and partnerships. So this information is not overnight in coming; but rather is a story of the last century coming into the 21st century.
😮Whoa!
🎞 This is like the 2009 movies, 'Avatar' and 'The Happening!'
Oh yes !
@jieqiang luo ...How so?
I’ve read about these when I was in middle school,like 7 or 8 years ago. It was mind blowing, made me see the plants in a different way.
"Wood Wide Web" term warms my heart.
It’s all fun & game till the trees speak Vietnamese
Everybody gangsta til the trees start talking
i wwas looking for this
Vietnam war ptsd intensify
*Fortunate Son Intensifies*
Russians when their tanks start speaking Ukrainian
"Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?" - Gimli
your mom
that would be a bit of a loaded subject to them I'd think, as squirrels mainly eat the tree's unborn children
Tree? I am no tree! I am an ent
they talk in the same way your liver cells do, which is to say, not at all, just trasmitting hormones.
love all of these! ty for making them
I had read something about it and even watched a video on this most fascinating subject but this video has helped me to understand other aspects of the fungi web like the distinction between the more extensive webs and the local ones, characteristic of forests in warmer climates.
This is a most educational channel indeed, thank you so much for your precious work!
i truly adore this topic. i boil brown rice then put it into cheese cloth to bring to the base of my favorite older decidious trees in my area....plant the rice 24 inches down ...return in 6 weeks to harvest the benif bacteria that reside in the rice now. works great for supercharging home soils! have a great day folks! smart people ROCK!
I’ve heard about this before. I definitely talk to trees with gratitude!🌳🌲💙
I learned it on an episode of doctor who, a Very beautiful episode of the 8th season 💕 it's still one of my favorites to this day..!
Trees: We have fungi interconnected underground so we provide hooman with Oxygen!
Woodcutter: So ugh, what's my salary bonus for cutting down this forest?
Most of the oxygen we breathe, by a large margin, comes from the oceans.
@@plasticiconoclastic My childhood education was a lie!
thats not how forestry works... at least not in developed countries
As an arborist I find this amazing!! The science behind trees is a fascinating subject.
as a wildlife biology and conservation major in college, these videos have been super helpful for me to connect different ideas and mechanisms that ive learned thus far in bio/chem.. much appreciated :O)
Such a great video again! Plenty of science but told as an amazing story!
This was one of the most amazing videos that I have ever watched on UA-cam
Another wonderful video with great content, clear and concise delivery, fun and relevant visual/animation and just the right amount of nerdy puns! You guys are awesome.
Do trees talk?
Vietnam war veteran: yes.
Is it just me, or there is no end to the number of positive feedback loops that contribute to climate change?
If the biosphere is an organism, then maybe the cascading disasters are the immune response to those that disrupt the system.
I wish more people knew about this. I think Information like this would make people care more about the earth
Amazing video like always. You're a big inspiration for my channel, so thanks for another great video! 😊😊
no way it’s my favourite science youtube channel discussing my favourite creation of nature
Thank you for clearing up how to say /`fʌŋ gaɪ/. I was always unclear on what the correct pronunciation was for /`fʌŋ gi/, but now I know how to say /`fʌn dʒi/ properly and not look like a doofus mispronouncing /`fʌn dʒaɪ/ in front of my friends.
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i loved fungus before, but i didn't know about the networking with trees, now i love them that much more
That suspended awkward silence around 1:10 *KILLED ME* 🤣🤣🤣
I actually had a good laugh from it
It's more like 1:02 actually. Yeah it's hysterical :D
@@M_Chen333 I was just waiting, like-- I knew that he was going to that-- I just felt it in my gut. It's such a great use of meta awkwardness 👌
I love It's Ok To Be Smart!!!
Thank you!!! I spent all day yesterday learning about fungi for the first time, this came at the perfect moment. Love it, love this dude he’s hilarious, gonna look for more vids of him explaining smart things that I kind of know but don’t really know.
Wait I’ve learned that Joe is the professor man of this channel and I am SO PLEASED!! I wanna eat spaghetti w him and get schooled
Hi sir
I just knew about mycorrhizal. But never knew about types of mycorrhizal. Thanks for sharibg sir.
Thanks for educating us...🙏👍😊
That fun guy joke was thou, priceless
I have to say that I like a lot the way you present the sources through a link.
Cool.
i love these videos, youtube should make a daily playlist for us to watch it like tv when we get home
The fact that trees can actually speed up climate change in some cases has also sped up my anxiety about our changing climate
Fun fact.
The world's largest living thing is even bigger than a blue whale (which happens to be the largest animal living now). Meet Armillaria ostoyae, or, as it's nicknamed, the Humongous Fungus. It's an organism that covers 2,385 acres (almost 4 square miles) of the Malheur National Forest in Oregon.
Best part of the video is the end takes lol
Great video overall, thanks
that effect at 4:16 - the earth.. man thats amazing :o
What an awesome video, thank you
It's pretty obvious that trees can talk. I mean Hello, Groot?
I always used to talk to the tree in my backyard. I named him George. He was a fun guy.
I saw a video on this topic on TED-Ed a couple of weeks ago, and it blew my mind. Last time this happened was when CRISPR videos started poping up on educational channels.
1:05 don't worry, I still think of you as a fungi I mean a fun guy.... Even if the world itself disagrees
Loved it!!! Great info presented very interestingly!
I still can't get over that beautiful intro
Awesome work!!
Loved that Ent reference. Great video!
Great episode. Thx
Need bloopers every vid! Awesome addition.
This was very interesting, thanks for explaining!!
Fantastic intro. This was on my timeline just after a terrence McKenna quote, "nature is alive, and its talking to us. This is not a metaphor."
That effect with the globe was well done.
Good information... And effort!!!
That’s amazing!!
That pun at the end😂
Love this show
Joe you killed me with the fun guy pun lol
I first heard this on an NPR show. It was the most interesting subject. Plants are more mysterious than we know. They will save the world!
Great video thanks with new information that is impressive
I've always wanted to know this!
U got my like with the fun guy joke! Grats!!!
Awesome video!!! Love it...I love this subject...:))
me: ok everyone let’s go to sleep
my brain 3 sec later:
*OK but WAIT do trees talk?*
This is the most interesting thing I've seen this week
Amazing!
There are actually at least 7 different types of mycorrhizae ! and the distribution of the two micorrhizae presented are not as cleaved as you present ! In most ecosystems you can actually find both ECM and AM in the same tree...
Anyway, it's such a pleasure to hear about such important and ignored topic !
(and i'm not saying this because it's my PhD topic ;))
I'd love to know more about this, Mycology is very interesting and makes me wish I went and studied in this field/ something similar instead of my current one (which is design-related, which I do enjoy too, but I think I'd enjoy this field more tbh). Good luck with your PhD! I'm not sure how these things work, but I'm sure PhD students publish their papers in journals and stuff, right? If so, I would love to read it when it's complete :)
@@Manj_J sure, I will ! But scientific papers use biological concepts that can be tough to read and understand... I'll see if I find something suited to a non-scientific audience!
@@bloody900 Thank you so much! That is so considerate of you! I look forward to it, and again, all the best with your PhD! Have a good day :)
Beautiful narration!
This.is.amazing.
One of the best videos 👍🏻👍🏻
LOG on to the WOOD wide web... just great Dr Hanson....
So cool!
Amazing! This is important to know! :D I learned that you can't just plant any trees, but you must also need to know what kind of trees you're planting and where to plant them, am I right?
You had me at "fun guy" hahah
the explanation is easy to understand
Loved this
Was it made by Bark Zuckerberg?
👍😆
People used to say I was crazy for mentioning the idea that trees in a forest were connected and that they could communicate and share resources. It was something I intuited but did not know the exact mechanisms of how it functioned. I swear that sometimes I would go into the forest and "feel" the network around me, in the pores of my bare feet and in my lungs.
The Wood Wide Web...luv it.
In North Africa we pronounce the word Fungi like this:Fugaya!!!
i think our ancestors "Berbers Amazigh" took it from Latin a long time ago...thank you very much i really enjoy your videos...❤ from Algeria.
Just got done with a mushroom foray and you post this
Really interesting video
My biggest fun fact about this is that the oldest, heaviest and biggest living organism is a fungus that connects a forest somewhere in Canada. Also we biologists always said with a little grin and wink that fungi are extremely immobilised animals. That's wrong of course but if you look at really old animals groups like sponges there may be a noticeable resemblance.
Do trees talk?
**vsauce music plays**
1:01 😂nice pun
This is awesome 😍
As a child I used to believe that "the forest" is a beautifull, romantic, idyllic place full of cute, playfull animals and exciting adventures.
It turned out not to be that way. But Joe Hanson and his crew brought me back to the romantic perspective of the forest for a few moments.
This time using real stuff, not fantasies.
This is the best thing I've ever learned