Trees do social distancing......

 How do you do social distancing?

Today, all of us know this.

But did you know that there are some plants and trees in the world that maintain social distancing among each other.

In some forests, if you look towards the sky, you will be able to see some trees have gaps between the leaves of the two trees.

The leaves look like a jigsaw puzzle. They fit properly beside each other, but would never touch each other. 

This is known as Crown Shyness.

This is mostly seen in the same species of trees.

Such as the Black Mangrove Tree, Eucalyptus, Camphor. There are many theories for this behavior of the trees. 

One theory claims that this is the trees way of social distancing, so that diseases aren’t spread from one tree to the other.

If one gets an infection, the other is protected. 

The second theory claims that it is to permit the light to enter so that the photosynthesis isn’t disrupted.

But the most likely theory is that these trees do not wish to harm each other.

Crown Shyness is seen largely in windy areas with winds of high speed.

So the scientists believe that the trees form gaps between them, so that even if a tree falls, the branches of the tree do not collide with others.