Article: The Guinness Book of Amazing Nature: Part 3 Animal Kingdom - Predators; While an animal will chase down victims, killer plants have evolved a variety of ingenious and subtle traps by which they capture insects and feed off their flesh.(Features)

PREDATORY plants are those species that rely on other species of animal or plant in order to survive. While they inevitably derive some nutrients by means of photosynthesis, they also digest insects or draw nutrients from plants growing nearby. Those carnivorous species of plant that eat insects and small animals do so by a host of ingenious means. Those that rely on other plants for food do so more directly, by invading their territory or sucking nutrients directly from them.

Deadly designs There are approximately 400 known species of carnivorous, or insectivorous, ...

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