![]() ![]() The book’s observations were more familiar than those of its predecessor the ground better trod. Like Tim Birkhead in Bird Sense and Charles Foster in Being a Beast, Wohlleben demonstrated that animals experience the world with a depth and richness we often choose to ignore. ![]() The Inner Life of Animals sought to prompt a similar revolution in our attitudes towards animals. Where once we saw trees as isolated individuals, we now perceive a wood as a place of multiple and sophisticated interrelationships, many of them operating deep beneath the earth. ![]() Trees of the same species send messages to one another via networks of mycorrhizal fungi, enabling them to issue warnings of potential danger, even to share nutrients. Wohlleben is a forester in the Eifel mountains of western Germany and his Hidden Life of Trees brought together a great deal of scholarly work on the way that trees interact and “communicate”. ![]()
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