Use code REALSCIENCE12 for up to 12 FREE MEALS across your first 4 HelloFresh boxes, including free shipping on your first box at https://bit.ly/3bY4Rxw Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/real-science-the-secret-language-of-trees Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephaniesamma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Credits: Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (null) Imagery courtesy of Getty Images Music: Open Field by Ankori Ramon Terra by Ardie Son A Journeys Epilogue by Sivan Talmor Sublime by ANBR From Nothing Everything by Kevin Graham Flutes Will Chill by Kicktracks References: [1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/how-many-tree-species-are-there-more-you-can-shake-stick-new-database-reveals [2] https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/mass-extinction [3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15503185/ [4] https://www.britannica.com/science/fungus/Mycorrhiza [5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/photosynthate [6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28920-x [7] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2434626?seq=1 [8] https://www.nature.com/articles/41557 [9] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013324 [10] https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other?language=en [11] https://mothertreeproject.org/about-mother-trees-in-the-forest/ [12] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.13785