
Birds and Trees Conspire Against Each Other
Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 947 , Segment
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Nature Conspiracies
Episode: Nature Conspiracies
- Apr 6, 2021 6:00 pm
- 31:11
There's a symbiotic, but competitive, relationship between birds and trees. Trees communicate with each other—possibly through fungus—to throw off birds and squirrels that might otherwise decimate their seeds. But climate change can throw off this whole system. Guest: Bryant Olsen, conservation ecologist at Tracy Aviary