How smart are Plants?

 When you think about nature it quickly becomes mind boggling. Watch a bumble bee, a hummingbird, or an eagle. How do those little brains control the complexities of flight? Yesterday Kadizzle was in the crawl space splitting a huge rock. The rock must have been at least two feet thick and three feet across. After a great struggle Kadizzle was amazed he got the rock to split in the middle. The most amazing thing was a root that had grown into the crack in the rock, clear into the middle of the rock. The crack was invisible, and as thin as a human hair. The question is how does a root have a computer that lets it follow a crack into the middle of a rock?

Here in the southwest there are countless soaring birds. Kadizzle loves to watch them fly. The birds seem to defy logic. Often you will see them going into the wind without moving their wings. How is that possible? Only by skillfully reading updrafts and air currents could such a thing be accomplished, yet they do it. The eagle down at the lake has attracted a huge following. The eagle sits in a tree to spot fish. Under the tree the locals gather to take his picture. His fishing and flying skill is something to behold. With a real crowd pleaser Mr. Eagle dove into the lake and plucked out a fish. Then the real excitement started. Another eagle tried to steal the fish in mid air. Mr. Eagle kept the fish and went to his perch in the tree where he sits on a single small branch. Kadizzle wondered how does and eagle carry a fish with his feet, and use the same feet to land without dropping the fish?  He did it. Who knows how.