Photos: These Trees 'Walk' Nearly 20m Yearly
Photos: These Trees 'Walk' Nearly 20m Yearly was established in , Built by in .
If you thought trees were compulsorily 'transfixed', well, think again.
These walking palm trees are not as eerie as they sound, but they do move across the forest- and they do it daily!
The trees move in the direction of the growth of their new roots and can move up to 2 or 3 cms per day.
(Photo credit: BBC)
According to Peter Vrsansky, a paleobiologist of the Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava:
“As the soil erodes, the tree grows new, long roots that find new and more solid ground, sometimes up to 20m.â€
The tragedy is that these trees are not running fast enough from human predators - and deforestation is ruining the beautiful Ecuador wildlife.
