Why this Bat Chooses to Snooze in a Meat-Eating Home

The world is home to around 850 species of carnivorous plant, which have evolved to extract nutrients from insects rather than soil. ↠Subscribe: From the household Venus fly trap to tropical pitcher plants, there are all kinds of ways to be a lean, green, meat-eating machine. 🦇 In this video, we delve into why these plants evolved to digest meat, and explore some of the more unusual relationships between them and their neighbors. In Borneo, the Rajah pitcher plant profits from scat left by tree shrews, while its relative Nepenthes hemsleyana has transformed itself into a bat motel . . . Stay tuned for more to come on a carnivorous plant that got too greedy! Sign up and hit the alert button to make sure you don’t miss our forthcoming video.