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  2. Carnivorous plant - Wikipedia

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    An upper pitcher of Nepenthes lowii, a tropical pitcher plant that supplements its carnivorous diet with tree shrew droppings. [1] [2] [3]Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.

  3. List of carnivorous plants - Wikipedia

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    This list of carnivorous plants is a comprehensive listing of all known carnivorous plant species, of which more than 750 are currently recognised. [1] Unless otherwise stated it is based on Jan Schlauer's Carnivorous Plant Database Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine. Extinct taxa are denoted with a dagger (†).

  4. Carnivore - Wikipedia

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    Lions are obligate carnivores consuming only animal flesh for their nutritional requirements.. A carnivore / ˈ k ɑːr n ɪ v ɔːr /, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose nutrition and energy requirements are met by consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food ...

  5. What do carnivorous plants and JFK have in common? The ... - AOL

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    A February 2015 Paraglide article stated there are about 40 known unmarked locations where the insect-eating plants grow on post. Botanist Janet Gray looks over a cluster of Venus flytraps growing ...

  6. Man-eating plant - Wikipedia

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    A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...

  7. These carnivorous plants are hunting underground - AOL

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    In the 1990 horror comedy Tremors (now streaming on Peacock!), Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon), Earl Bassett (Fred Ward), and the rest of the residents of Perfection, Nevada, find themselves at the ...

  8. Pitcher plant - Wikipedia

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    Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of pitcher plant are considered to be "true" pitcher plants and are formed by specialized leaves.

  9. Darwin's favourite plant displays tentacle trick - AOL

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    The sundew, or Drosera rotundifolia, was found to be more carnivorous in high-sunlight, nutrient-poor bog microhabitats. In Finland, tentacle density was found to be about 50% higher in some ...