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Maple

  • Maple trees can tell the difference between deer eating them and being damaged by storms. (Willow, Wikimedia Commons)
    Trees Know When Something's Eating Them
    Susan Linville
    German scientists studying young beeches and maples knew plants responded to predation, but they wanted to know if plants could tell the difference between a deer chewing their leaves verus being damaged by other factors like storms, or being trampled upon.