Researchers have recorded the sounds of the world's largest tree, a 13-million-pound (6 million kilograms) behemoth known as Pando that stretches across 106 acres (43 hectares) in southern Utah. The researchers think that listening to the recordings could give them a better understanding of the sprawling aspen’s health and any environmental changes that might affect it.
To the untrained eye, Pando resembles a forest made up of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees. However, it's actually a single clone comprising approximately 40,000 genetically identical stems (trunks) that are interconnected by a complex root system.
