HIGHLIGHTS:
• A new study says MUSHROOMS have the ability to talk
• They have a vocabulary of up to 50 words
• They have been recorded having conversations similar to human speech
A new study says MUSHROOMS have the ability to talk with each other and have a vocabulary of up to 50 words,
A research shows that mushrooms have the ability to communicate with each other and also they have a vocabulary of about 50 words and infact they have been recorded having conversations similar to human speech.
Research has suggested that fungi conduct electrical impulses through long, underground filamentous structures called hyphae – similar to how nerve cells transmit information in humans when the hyphae of wood-digesting fungi come into contact with wooden blocks, firing rate of these impulses increases This is now a question that if fungi use this electrical language to share information about food and warn parts of themselves—or other hyphae-connected partners like trees—about potential threats. such as trees.
But do these thread of electrical activity have anything in common with human speech?
For investigation, Prof Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory in Bristol founded that pikes generated by four species of fungi – enoki, split gill, ghost and caterpillar fungi.
The research found spikes of activity, resembling vocabularies of up to 50 words.
This was also been found that of these “fungal word lengths” closely matched to the human languages and also average “word” length was 5.97 letters found by Prof Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the
West of England’s
The data found that split gills – which grow on decaying wood, and whose fruiting bodies resemble undulating waves of tightly packed coral, This suggests that fungi may use electrical transmissions to share information about food or injury. There did not appear to be a “direct relationship” between the fungi’s spiking patterns and human speech, he did point out that there were “many similarities in information processing in living substrates of different classes, families and species.
