Rebecca Haumann, from Erika Edwards' (brown.edu/Research/Edwards_Lab/index.php) Plant Diversity course at Brown University (Biol 0430), describes how different plants cope with drying out.

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The hand-drawn animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center (brown.edu/academics/science-center/). The music is "gentle marimba" by Alastair Cameron (cameronmusic.co.uk/).

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