amazingly neighboring trees do the same even if they're not under attack forestry expert peter bolaven explains the trees talk to each other and you can understand them by listening in on a born horse there and. does that mean that trees are some kind of language and what exactly do they talk about. it turns out that odor signals in response to president frustrations and those molecules trigger a protective reaction in adjacent trees although it's not clear how this works so but what if the neighbors are on the wrong side wind wise are they then not party to the conversation. that's where the would wide web comes in trees send signals to the fun guy nestling around the roots which relay them via the underground network . this rapidly puts the other trees on alert so that they can prepare their own defenses. but does that count as a language with humans this involves not just exchanging signals but words they convey information through conscious meanings associated with certain sounds so someone who speaks a foreign language who might not understand trini has been intrigued. so trees do