Mongabay: Strong memory, being able to predict the future, and acting based on ones surroundings are traits typically associated only with the most advanced types of animals. However, a team of German and Dutch scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Göttingen found ecological evidence that plants also have these abilities. Their findings were recently published in The American Naturalist.
The researchers made their discovery by studying the European...