Silver Persian
Banned
that's an interesting article UIC (even if half of it is in Finnish 
), but to my way of reading it the chemicals that get released are automatic responses to the external threat - the tree doesn't consciously think 'oh crap' and then protect itself. It would be like how our body can fight a disease without us telling the good bacteria to eat the bad bacteria.
kami: I actually agree with what you said...stealing and eating a birds egg is like forcing abortion on a woman. *Changes views on egg consumption*
), but to my way of reading it the chemicals that get released are automatic responses to the external threat - the tree doesn't consciously think 'oh crap' and then protect itself. It would be like how our body can fight a disease without us telling the good bacteria to eat the bad bacteria.kami: I actually agree with what you said...stealing and eating a birds egg is like forcing abortion on a woman. *Changes views on egg consumption*