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WHEN Â鶹´«Ã½ first wrote to ecologist Monica Gagliano asking for an interview, her response was unexpected. She couldn’t commit to anything immediately because she was about to seal herself away in a pitch dark room for 40 days to meditate.
When the interview eventually happened, she revealed more in the same vein. Once, in need of some research inspiration, she visited a shaman deep in the Amazon jungle, she said.
Gagliano’s research itself is unorthodox too. She is known for a string of experiments that she claims show that plants can learn to associate a stimulus with a reward, just as Pavlov’s dogs did. Plant…
