N2NH
08-06-2011, 01:47 PM
True. Plant eats great tit.
Or as the Beeb put it: A plant has killed and "eaten" a great tit at a garden nursery in Somerset.
Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard*, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird.
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.
*United Kingdom
Killer plant 'eats' great tit at Somerset Nursery. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809)
Or as the Beeb put it: A plant has killed and "eaten" a great tit at a garden nursery in Somerset.
Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard*, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird.
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.
*United Kingdom
Killer plant 'eats' great tit at Somerset Nursery. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809)