While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouth–including a mouse!
I’ve heard that some of these plants live in kind of a symbiosis with bats. The plants provide a sleeping place protected from rain and the bats provide nutrients by pooping into the plants in their sleep. Apparently the bats can easily hold onto the lid without a risk of slipping in.
Fun fact: In Borneo, there’s a species of frog which can live in pitcher plants. The pitcher plant provides the frog with insects to catch, and the frog… well, if it loses its footing, it provides the pitcher plant with some easy nutrients.
So the mouse walked up to a pitcher plant then fell into an Olympic swimming pool with a pitcher plant background. Oh Hollywood you are so clever.
“victims die by drowning, while there flesh slowly dissolves…” Cuts to a happy jingle “smithsonian channel, Its brighter here”
