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Can plants think? Do they make plans? Do they talk to one another? Believe it or not,

these are questions that scientists are asking quite seriously and it's starting to look

like the answer might be yes. For Scientific Americans science, I'm Rachel Feldman.

I'm joined today by the author of a new book on the surprising science of plant behavior. Would you mind introducing yourself?

I'm Zoe Schlinger.

I'm a climate reporter at the Atlantic and about five years ago I started researching the world of plant intelligence

research, which is really plant behavior research with a small cluster of botanists who are

trying to push forward the idea that what we're seeing

plants be able to do is in fact signs of intelligence and possibly even consciousness.

So I wrote a book called The Light Eaters that came out very recently,

and it's all about these incredible findings

and what they might mean for our understanding

of non-human minds.

Zoe, thanks so much for sitting down to chat.

I'm really looking forward to talking about the book.

It's so great to be here.

So what initially drew you to writing about plants?

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