Stephanie Pain wrote the article “The Borneo Hills Diet” in the New Scientist 2014 edition. This article is about how plants get their food in the desert and how they might be hunting a new unusual pray. In the highest part of the mountains is the lair in which the most awesome pitcher plants, with fearsome plants and a reputation to match. The plants get their enzymes to live off of the insects they eat, typically ants. The largest plant is named the Nepenthes rajah, and in the last century there have been spotted reports it catching rats. “So this has the “king” of carnivorous plants really evolved to catch small mammals?” Another large plant is called N. Iowii. They call this plant odd for two reasons, the first reason is the rim is unusually narrow and the mouth is unusually broad, along with the leafy lid that keeps the rain out. In 2008, a few scientist found the answer in the cloud forest of Gunung Mulu in another part of Borneo. They found that only one vertebrae visited them: the mountain tree shrew.
I was totally wrong when I saw the title of this article.
I thought this was going to be about what people eat in Borneo not how plants
get their nutrients. Saying that, I still enjoyed this article. When I took
biology I learned about this stuff so it was very easy for me to comprehend
exactly what they were talking about. I thought it was so interesting that this
little plant has possibly eaten rats.
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