Scientist Says Mushrooms Have a Language They Use to Talk to Each Other

A scientist from the University of the West of England believes that the electrical impulses mushrooms send out may be a form of communication.

Professor Andrew Adamatzky published his research yesterday. Adamatzky put mycelium, the root of the fungi, and the fruiting body of the mushrooms into the soil. He analyzed the electrical activity of the mushrooms and found evidence of a mushroom language that could have as many as 50 words.

Adamatzky wrote in the study that they speculated that the electrical activity was a result of the communication between distant parts of the colony.

Shroom Talk

Adamatzky's hypothesis is that the electric signals moving through the mushrooms could be communicating with each other.

Adamatzky is open to the idea that mushrooms don't talk, too, and said the noises could simply mean nothing. It is similar to the ongoing study about talking dogs, in which researchers are open-minded to feedback and skepticism, which makes it easier to trust their findings.

Even without related interspecies communication studies, we already knew mushrooms had electrical activity and can be made from them.

We can still jam out to mushrooms even though we are still waiting for a verdict on whether they can talk.

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