On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:39 PM, umashankar <> wrote:
> 30 years ago, in bharatpur, i remember coming across two trees lit by
> synchronised fireflies. entire tree flashing together, and an adjacent tr=
ee
> flashing in response. we had a film camera with us then, but there was no
> hope of capturing it, but the image of the two trees is the most vivid
> memory i ever had.
>
> umashankar
>
You might be interested in this wonderful radio piece on exactly that
phenomenon (but in Thailand), a segment of the wholly wonderful RadioLab
show on WNYC:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2005/02/18
Scroll down, it was the second part of the program -- MP3 available at the
top, you have to d/l the whole show though; the segments stream in some
other format as well but I don't have the right player for those. :D
aaron
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