Plants and animals will begin to react in the lead-up ... Kyle Green/Idaho Statesman via TNS via Getty Images, FILE About 20 minutes from totality, birds will start to flock.

The behaviour of plants is invisible to the naked human eye. They operate on timescales our imaginations can’t entertain, and they run roughshod over familiar categories of self, other and ...

Now there are so many different types of plants on a farm. Some are grown to sell and they're called crops. Some are grown to feed animals like grasses. Some grow naturally and help maintain the soil.

Image “What we’re really thinking ... Do you have trouble eating salad now? Obviously we’re animals that need to eat plants. There’s no way around that. But there is a way of imagining ...

One of the main distinctions between plants and animals is how they respond to stimuli. Humans have brains, where stimuli are understood and responses formed. “Emotional” responses are merely ...

WASHINGTON -- When millions of people look to the skies on April 8 to witness the total solar eclipse, scientists will be studying how the phenomenon will affect plant and animal activity on Earth.