The Toilet-Shaped Plants That Thrive By Eating Poop

When nature calls, the toi­let-shaped plants of the tropics work as the perfect bathroom for small mammals that call the forests home.

In fact, by using the plants as a personal porta-potty the various mammals and insects are stimulat­ing their own ecosystem and keep­ing the pitcher plants thriving.

Pitcher plants have made for a fas­cinating muse in the plant world as they shatter the very idea of what a plant is, eating others rather than being eaten.

In fact, Charles Darwin himself was even floored by the carnivo­rous plant species writing in an 1860 letter to Charles Lyell, “I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world.”

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