Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs

Alejandro Colás is Professor of International Relations at Birkbeck

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Planta Sapiens William Cobbing Each essay in their debutHave you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something. But in fact, plants are doing a great deal too plants behave, as animals do they are just doing it on a very different timescale. They cannot move about freely like animals do, so they grow into space instead and make new chemicals to interact with the species around them. Not only that, but what causes them to do these