These are the most impressive carnivorous plants, having spectacular traps: pitcher plants (Nepenthes), growing in various places, from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. The 117 species are also dubbed "Monkey cups" as monkeys have been spotted drinking rainwater from them. These plants are ... |
29 January 2008
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Plants make photosynthesis to get all the food they need. And food, for both plants and animals, is represented by three classes of chemicals: sugars, fats and proteins. Sugars and fats are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen: these elements are easily extracted from air (carbon dioxide) and water. But proteins conta... |
9 June 2007
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The feces of most vegetarian mammals are greenish, due to the plant's green pigment called chlorophyll, which cannot be digested. Birds' feces are whitish, as they are covered in dry urine, made of white uric salts. When carnivores eat bones, their feces can result whitish due to the mineral salts from the ... |
8 June 2007
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