Rodent-Eating Plants
Explorer Stewart McPhereson has recently completed the first-ever global study of all 120 known species of "pitcher plants," all of which are carnivorous, and some of which grow large enough "pitchers" to trap vertebrate prey including rodents. Nepenthes rowanae, a little-known species of pitcher plant from the northern tip of Australia.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: Redfern Natural History
