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Published 5 years ago by kxh with 1 Comments
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This Carnivorous Plant Evolved to Also Be a Rodent Toilet. We're Not Making This Up

In the mountainous cloud forests of Borneo, nothing goes to waste, and that includes waste itself. Here, the largest carnivorous plant on Earth has evolved to become a sort of customised outhouse for local tree shrews (Tupaia montana).

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  • Gozzin
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    Shrews are not rodents.

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