Bat Uses Carnivorous Plant as a Toilet : Discovery News: "A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual, mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The bat roosts and relieves itself in the plant's prey-trapping pitchers, feeding the plant.
The discovery, outlined in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters, represents only the second known case of a mutualistic association between a carnivorous plant and a mammal. The other case was reported in 2009, when scientists saw three tree shrews pooping into the pitchers of another carnivorous plant."
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Bats in Pitchers
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