The plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is believed to be the largest meat-eating shrub, dissolving rats with acid-like enzymes.
The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines.
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They decided to name the plant Nepenthes attenboroughii, after the wildlife broadcaster Sir David.
Find the entire article at Telegraph.co.uk.
(Thanks to Crumpled-Wings for the heads-up on this most excellent discovery!)
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Cool..it must be purposeful. Yes, we have more concrete and asphalt than we need.Feel sorry for the rat!
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Great find zaxy thanks
Wow ok this is really cool!
Wow. That is so disgusting yet awesome all at the same time.
Wow nature at its best!!! There must be balance…
It looks so disgusting, but I love the purpose. I will adopt one. lol
will be definitely useful to control rat population
I’m from the Philippines and it’s so ironic I don’t even know this?! I’ve seen myself a pitcher but the smaller specie – that insect-eating one.
This specie is interesting. If only we could really use this for rat control in our rice fields, it would be a great help to us farmers. But I think it cannot adapt into a hot, tree-less environment with only rice standing!
fyi.. it does not eat rats.. it eats their poop.
This is definetly something to put in New York City subway stations!
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Amazing. I’m going to have to look it up though, I’m sure there has to be more to it than just eating the rat, there has to be a toxin and a “hunting” habit to be able to hold something that (at least in my country) can claw and bite it’s way out of lead pipes