[PCA] NEWS: No Brainer Behavior

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Jul 3 09:09:09 CDT 2009


http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/44327/title/No_brainer_behavior

No brainer behavior
Messages, memory, maybe even intelligence . botanists wrangle over how far 
plants can go
By Susan Milius
June 20th, 2009; Vol.175 #13 (p. 16)

In a somewhat different world, Consuelo M. De Moraes would be 
revolutionizing vampire fiction.

Her lab at Penn State University studies predators that entangle prey in a 
tight embrace, pierce victims. tissue and suck out nourishment. In the 
last few years, De Moraes and her colleagues have found that the predators 
even hunt down prey by scent.

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