Carnivorous plants have a taste for salamanders, scientists find
The northern pitcher plants, also known as turtle socks, devour juvenile spotted salamanders
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Jun 12, 2019
2 minutes
Biologists have discovered evidence that carnivorous plants in Canada feast on young salamanders, in what is believed to be the first instance of vertebrate consumption by plants in North America.
In in the journal Ecologya pair of biologists in the province of Ontario found that northern pitcher
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