Trees and Community

Another thought while stuck in traffic.

I was reading a book about trees and how they live in a community. Before starting it, I rejected the idea that trees could have any kind of behaviour. But once I was thirty-something pages in, I realised something the author hadn't mentioned: we and other animals come from the same source. If we have certain behaviours, why wouldn't our distant ancestors have them too?

It makes sense, since evolution focuses on the survival of the creatures it creates. With plants especially, simply opening our eyes and going outside shows us that they live in large colonies: patches of grass, flower beds, forests…