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Killer Plant 'eats' Great Tit At Somerset Nursery
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<blockquote data-quote="Num7" data-source="post: 45054" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>We're talking about a killer plant here rather than an animal, but I figured this is the only section it made some sense to post it in.</p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54433000/jpg/_54433991_plant.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He said he was "absolutely staggered" to find it had caught the creature.</p><p></p><p>It is believed to be only the second time such a carnivorous plant has been documented eating a bird anywhere in the world.</p><p></p><p>"I've got a friend who's studied these particular plants extensively in the wild and he's never found evidence of any of them having caught birds," said Mr Hewitt-Cooper.</p><p></p><p>"The other documented time was in Germany a few years ago and that was in cultivation, not in the wild.</p><p></p><p>Full article: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Num7, post: 45054, member: 1"] We're talking about a killer plant here rather than an animal, but I figured this is the only section it made some sense to post it in. ------------------------------------------------- Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird. [CENTER][IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54433000/jpg/_54433991_plant.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] He said he was "absolutely staggered" to find it had caught the creature. It is believed to be only the second time such a carnivorous plant has been documented eating a bird anywhere in the world. "I've got a friend who's studied these particular plants extensively in the wild and he's never found evidence of any of them having caught birds," said Mr Hewitt-Cooper. "The other documented time was in Germany a few years ago and that was in cultivation, not in the wild. Full article: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809[/url] [/QUOTE]
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