There is a plant that eats rats

Recently botanists discovered in Southeast Asia, a new species of plants, feeding on small rodents.

Carnivorous flower, shaped like a pitcher, the researchers called Nepenthes northiana - in honor of the English traveler the XIX-th century, Marianne North (Marianne North), which studied and sketched many species of plants in the most remote corners of the globe.

Nepenthes northiana food are small animals, mainly rats. The size of the flower reaches 20 cm in diameter, spun bud looks like a huge vessel where predator and luring hapless victims. The bright colors of the plants attract insects and medium-sized mammals, expect to find food here, however, getting into the open, "jug", the animals themselves become prey - a vessel filled with acid, in the case of a successful hunt flower immediately begins the cycle of digestion.





Scientists there are about 600 species of carnivorous plants, the most famous of which is probably the so-called Venus Flytrap (lat. Dionaea muscipula). Although the basis of their diet are the insects, flycatchers, like Nepenthes northiana, do not disdain to mice and rats.

via factroom.ru