«Tropical
trees, compared those in temperate forests, have three times as many living cells surrounding the xylem that can facilitate these processes, which are not
observed by the typical experiments we conduct to determine how vulnerable a
plant is to droughts.»
In the wild, they were also
observed to remove dirt from from the roots of the wild ginger
by holding the
plant with their trunks and hitting the roots against a
tree or their leg before eating the ginger.