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    Plants Make Friends Too
    Plants Make Friends Too
    Plants Make Friends Too
    Ebook95 pages48 minutes

    Plants Make Friends Too

    By Sukanya Dutta

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    Trees have a subtle language to which animals have been responding over millennia. A communication system that the plants use to compete and even wage ruthless wars. This book is an attempt to decode this warm, but chillingly efficient system.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Tree Publishers
    Release dateJun 22, 2015
    ISBN9788183284226
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      Plants Make Friends Too - Sukanya Dutta

      © Sukanya Datta, 2008

      First published 2008

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the author and the publisher.

      ISBN: 978-81-8328-422-6

      Published by

      Wisdom Tree

      4779/23 Ansari Road

      Darya Ganj

      New Delhi-110002

      Ph.: 23247966/67/68

      wisdomtreebooks@gmail.com

      Printed in India

      This book is dedicated to my beloved ‘Boro-mami’, Mrs Geeta Datta, who is grace personified and dignity incarnate. In amazing appreciation of her capacity to knit the family together with love.

      Contents

      Preface

      Come to Me!

      Conquering New Lands

      Army and Warfare!

      Strange Friendships and Stranger Warfare

      Read Some More

      Index

      Preface

      Everybody needs friends. We make friends usually with those we meet often. Many of our classmates become our friends. We stay in touch even after school and sometimes visit each other’s home. Those who live nearby too become friends. We seek them out to chat or to play or simply be with. We may even make friends with those who live in another country by writing letters or e-mailing them. Friends make us happy. Friends make life easier. We laugh when we are with friends. Friends help wipe our tears when we are sad. Friends hold our hand and speak up for us when we are in trouble. Friendship is a warm feeling.

      By making friends and learning the art of friendship, we also learn the art of being social. We realise human beings cannot live alone. We depend on one another and live in groups or communities. That is why we say man is a social animal. Ideally it means that all humans need to make friends and live together in harmony. In a harmonious society, every individual supports and helps the other.

      The benefits of living and working together are so great that many animals also exhibit social tendencies. The monkey society is structured with a ‘boss’ at the top whom everybody obeys. It is the boss’s duty to ensure that the young males defend the group and extend protection to the females and young ones in case of danger. A wolf pack has a leader too. He is called the ‘alpha male’. The others in the pack follow the alpha male so that discipline is maintained. The ‘boss’ or the alpha male is obeyed without question till he becomes old or weak or for some reason is unable to defend his position at the top. In that case, a brief struggle for power ensues and another individual gets the ‘job’. Hens have a pecking order and individuals high up on the pecking scale can peck those below them. But those lower down on the pecking scale never peck those above them! Ant, bee, and termite societies are rigidly structured with each insect having a well-defined role to play while the queen ant or bee performs the central role.

      If you see pet dogs of different owners in park, you will notice that they band together in packs in the brief time that they are together. Even humans often treat their pets as valued friends. Many claim that they can understand what their pets want and that their pets in turn, under-stand them. It does not matter that the pet is an animal and the owner, a human.

      But we never seem to include the great plant kingdom when we discuss friendship or even their ability bandingto communicate.

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