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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+137It'll still be hungry.
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -10/+103Enemy RATTATA is defeated! VICTREEBELL gains 436 EXP!
- Black913Hole, on 10/12/2007, -11/+66suck on that PETA
- EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56This is what happens when you let plants play violent video games.
- cosmicv, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50Feed me Seymore!
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39if anyone catches that, its assured they are losers.
like me - scrimaxinc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34Disappointing, the plant didn't snatch up the mouse or anything. It simply has a tube shaped structure that allows things to fall in and have trouble getting back out. Just because a mouse was stupid enough to fall into a trap of weak digestive fluids......
If I dropped a lit cigarette into the plant by accident would there be an article tomorrow about plants being addicted to nicotine? - ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Yes.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Apparently the food chain is a 2-way street. Time for me to go hide from the marshmallows and fruit snacks.
- lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18And the author couldn't even be bothered to name the plant. He also stated that it was the first time a carnivorous plant was known to have eaten something larger than an insect, when venus flytraps have been known to catch small frogs (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/attachment.php?s=64b82079bdb0090bb65a9888d75eed43&attachmentid=16977&d=1159380987).
Good story, terrible article. - KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Look, we need to reserve a conference room and have a meeting about how SOMEONE is not following the structured Food Chain synergies we have set up here at the company.
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I agree. Not nearly as impressive as i expected. Even if the plant leaned down and let the mouse walk in i'd me more intrigued but as long as the stupid mouse fell in and couldn't get out, it doesn't really count. The plant didn't even eat the whole thing anyway.
- ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18I for one welcome our new plant overlords...
- vap0r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Oh snap!
- manicdvln, on 10/12/2007, -13/+22I wonder what happens if I stick my penis in there.
- ell0bo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, makes me feel better I'm not the only loser here
- jobigoud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not really a first...
The plant pictured on the article is a Nepenthes. It is known for occasionally trapping small vertebrates.
Check out the Nepenthes Rajah, one of the biggest in the family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_rajah
Oh, and before you purchase some, they require very special light and humidity conditions, and are pretty hard to maintain... - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Now that's what I call a sticky situation!
- Canthros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Guaranteed, actually. Pitcher plants are pretty passive, and rely on scent (IIRC, IANABotanist, etc) to lure prey into the pitcher.
That said, they are considered carnivorous. - Fyzzix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yep. Me too.
- ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm not really into inhaling rodent barbecue, thanks.
- DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Digg for the south park reference that nobody else got.
- ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wonder what would happen if it ate a vegitarian? It would probably go into some space-time continuum ending the universe as we know it.
- napinsa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The mouse was from France, need I say more?
- DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This just furthers my argument that vegetarians are wrong. Plants don't want us to eat them either, just like the animals. Only difference is that the cow has not mutated a defense against us whereas many plants have (see cactus spines, onions making you cry, various and sundry poisonous plants, etc.). I say we eat nothing but meat and leave the poor plants alone! :-P
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Suspicious article because mice have the ability easily chew through these plants; It could not have been a normal mouse. Perhaps it had been poisoned by pest control and was dying anyway.
- Cruelapollo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So no one has ever tried sticking a mouse inside one before? Ever?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No triffid comments, guess it must be before the average diggers time.
- malonie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope Ive seen mosquitoes and flies being eaten slowly by that plant. We use to have one of those plants back in the Philippines and boy thats one nasty plant.
- manicdvln, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2George Bush doesn't care for carnivorous plants.
- genelmx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Oh c'mon, the mouse probably crawled in there himself and drown in the plant's juice. A carnivorous plant would be one that actually catches a moving mouse.
- KoZo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since this is native in my country, Im gonna grow one of these and sell it to rogue states. :)
- fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that is one confused plant...you are supposed to suck water stupid plant! gosh!
- EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe the *mouse* had been playing violent video games, and thought he'd try and take out as many of those damn meddling plants before he went out in a blaze of... er... digestive juices.
Up next: Jack Thompson Sues Mother Nature - "Think of the poor mice!" - dustysage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now, if I can just train this plant to eat the neighbor's squeaky Chiwawa.
- Glanzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Obviously they've never heard of the dreaded MAN-EATING PLANT OF MADAGASCAR! ONO!
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eating_tree - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Richard Gere might have attempted it once..
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone else glance at the URL and think of WTLW (Welcome to Last Week)?
- windowboxes, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Yeah i have heard abt carnivorous plants but plants never make any effort to catch any living being actually such plant has a structure to trap the little living being like bee and butterfly etc..and when once they trapped they die their self....
http://www.flowerwindowboxes.com/ - Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Keep those away from Monsanto.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Roll that up and smoke it
- hotsake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unimpressed!
Here I was preparing myself for something Jumanji-esque. - malonie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1We use to have one of that plant, it catches flies ...a lot of flies but didnt know that it can catch a mouse too WOW!. That plant has a jelly like substance that acts like a glue on the inner side of the sac that probably explain why the mouse don't have a chance to escape.
- MattFaber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I felt it was more of a fark reference.
- DrMic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I was expecting some sort of video, posibly timelapse. Not really sorry that there isn't.
- zspade, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'm sorry, did you mistake this for Slashdot?
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It would not need a tooth pick.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2At the time of this writing, it looks like there were 55 (me included) that caught it.
- weprin, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3No "Philippine" way! Sorry, had to.
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