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Published online 3 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020101-4
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Plant has taste for termites
Pitcher plants are fussy eaters.
Armed with sticky and slippery traps but rooted to the spot, most carnivorous plants have no choice but to consume any small creature unlucky enough to stumble into them. But a pitcher plant in Brunei's rainforest seems to have refined the art of fussy eating, luring only termites to their doom.
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