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They don't appear to literally be claiming that this is a language, a less click-baity title would be 'Calcium wave communication in networks of fungi mycelium'. This is not a newly discovered phenomenon - we've known that fungi use calcium derived electrical potentials to signal the mass to do things for a long time. There's no evidence this is any more complex than hormonal communication in plants, just a different media.


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