Sound artist eavesdrops on what is thought to be world’s heaviest organism
by Nicola Davis Science correspondent from on (#6BMJG)
Artist records underground sounds generated by Pando, a huge group of aspens in Utah considered to be a single organism
When it comes to the world's heaviest living organism, it is a forest of one tree" that is thought to take the crown. Now a sound expert is listening into the quiet grove in an attempt to hear its secrets.
Known as Pando - Latin for I spread" - the 47,000 genetically identical quivering aspens in south-central Utah are considered to be a single organism, with the trees" actually branches thought to be connected by a shared root system.
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