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SIGNIFICANT EARTHWORKS. “The mound is built by termites depositing soil on the mound’s surface, brought up from deep soil horizons and gradually transported up through the nest. The amounts of soil so moved are impressive, amounting to roughly 250 kg per year, nearly all of it during the rainy season.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5 View in LinkedIn

FINER PHYSIOLOGY. “We now know this to be incorrect. The colony’s respiratory gas exchange is not mediated through bulk flows of air through the nest, but through a complex mixed-regime process that is very similar to how gas exchange operates in our own lungs. This involves using wind energy to promote mixing at a boundary between two air masses that, for various reasons, are poorly mixed: the mound’s and the nest’s.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5 View in LinkedIn

“PLANT BIO-ATTENTION is what we may call “hyper-attention,” as every vertical shoot, leaf and rootlet monitors the minutest environmental variations proximate to it. Far from a redundancy, the plant’s non-totalized intelligence is explicable, in cognitive terms, as a paralleling processing model, with every organ of intentionality playing the role of a parallel processor." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

NO DISTRACTION. "The dispersion of intentionality in plants does not signify a permanent state of distraction due to their inability to achieve anything like lasting concentration." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn