新奇事件簿 植物比我們想象的要聰明

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Plants are a lot smarter than we thought. According to researchers, they are capable of making intelligent decisions regarding risk. Scientists have discovered that one plant, the humble pea, can make decisions regarding how to survive best, even though it does not have a brain. Researchers from the UK's Oxford University and Israel's Tel-Hai College grew several pea plants that had their roots separated between two pots. Each pot contained differing amounts of nutrients. One pot always had the same amount, while the other pot varied between a lot and a little. The plants turned out to be remarkably consistent at diverting their roots to the pot with the most nutrients.

植物比我們想象的要聰明。據(jù)研究學家指出，它們在遇到風險時刻能做出理智決定。科學家發(fā)現(xiàn)即使豌豆沒有大腦，它也可以決定如何更好的生存。英國牛津大學和以色列Tel-Hai大學的研究學家種植了幾顆豌豆，將種子分別放在兩個花盆中。每個花盆中的營養(yǎng)物多少不同。其中一盆的含量始終不變，另一盆的營養(yǎng)物分含量多和含量少。結果種子毫無例外地向營養(yǎng)多地的地方轉移。

The research paper will be published this week in the 'Current Biology' journal. Researcher Alex Kacelnik said the experiment, "raises a question, not about plants, but about animals and humans". He wondered whether the pea plant might be more efficient in using its limited decision-making resources than humans. He said: "We have a very fancy brain, but maybe most of the time we're not using it." Professor Kacelnik said he did not think that pea plants were intelligent in the human sense, but that they exhibited complex behaviours to efficiently take advantage of natural opportunities. It would be interesting to see how our lives would be different if we adopted similar strategies.

研究報告將于本周刊登在《當代生物學》雜志。研究學家艾利克斯·卡塞爾尼克稱，這項實驗提出了關于動物和人類的問題，而不是植物。比起利用有限的決策資源，豌豆看起來比人類更有效率，這引起了艾利克斯的好奇。他稱：“我們的大腦非常神奇，但在大部分時間里，我們從未使用過它。”卡塞爾尼克教授認為，從人類意義上而言，豌豆并不聰明，但為了有效利用自然恩賜，它們的行為也會變得復雜。若人類遇到類似情況，觀察人類的一舉一動定將非常有趣。