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Carnivorous plants have a taste for salamanders, scientists find

The northern pitcher plants, also known as turtle socks, devour juvenile spotted salamanders
A professor of biology first discovered a salamander in a pitcher plant accidentally in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. Photograph: Patrick D Moldowan/The Guardian

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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