Nature (TV Series) What Plants Talk About (2013) User Reviews

Mindblowing documentary for all

[JurijFedorov · 9/10 · 5 November 2015]

This documentary is a nature documentary about plants. But plants are boring right? And plants just grow and nothing else, right? Not so fast Popplers. These things are super interesting in this documentary. And even though I read about animal behavior all the time this documentary still surprised me with facts and information. They need to make a lot more of these plant documentaries, this is very interesting. The con thing about it is them repeatedly saying that all they say is controversial. So how controversial is it? Are they the only ones discovering this stuff in the scientific community? Do they do real big studies on these subjects? Controversial is one of the worst words in science. And using it to describe your own findings is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Plants, they talk, they have sex...

[m_winship · 10/10 · 17 August 2020]

Fascinating look at our botanical neighbors living all around us. Of course they move much slower than we. They communicate with each other and have hermaphroditic sex and have beautiful and photogenic sexual organs to see. Plants are a stunning side branch of evolutionary development that has been around for billions of years. Murf

Plants are an awful lot like animals, right?!

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 15 August 2014]

This episode of "Nature" is interesting, though I am pretty sure it make many animal behaviorists (ethologists) would take exception to the wording often used in the show. Sure, there are similarities between some plant and animal habits--but referring to plants having a 'social life', 'foraging' and 'behave' would seem to imply intelligence and animal-like actions. Despite this, the show IS interesting to see because you learn a lot of interesting and seldom known facts about plants--such as that plants are not quite as passive as we think but how they act and interact with each other and the environment. Well done but the language did seem a bit weird and the show perhaps tried to much to try to say plants and animals were the same...and they aren't in my opinion. Of course it all depends on your perspective I guess...