Shyness of Trees

Trees, one thing about them, they are always doing things we don't see. Every tree is an entire world of activity and purpose. There is one particular phenomenon seen with many like species, or even among different species, called canopy shyness, or canopy disengagement. Among some groups of trees, they do not touch each other, instead forming a clever canopy with channel-like gaps. 

This process has been studied for decades now, but scientists still don't agree about why this may happen. Some tree experts think it's a sort of social distancing, contracting disease may be prevented, or any parasitical danger, it would isolate its spread. Or, trees communicate amongst themselves via channels beyond our mortal experience, trees self-declaring their respective canopy boundaries. 

Looking like machine-cut jigsaw puzzles, these special trees leave a certain respect between them as if by mutually realized design that only underscores how trees affect each other in grand and natural mystery.