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Plants That Eat Animals

You’ve heard of Venus flytraps, the most famous of all carnivorous plants. We’ve seen them in cartoons and learned about them in school, but there are a variety of plants with similar appetites in the world and with different types of mechanisms for trapping their prey.

In the following episode, 4 Ever Green features 10 plants, including the Venus flytrap, that eat animals, usually insects because they’re easier to digest, and preferably dead ones so they can’t heal themselves.

Plants That Communicate

Humans and animals are among Earth’s creatures blessed with brains. But can we say the same about plants? Taking sophisticated equipment used to study the brain, neuroscientist Greg Gage hooks up the Mimosa pudica and Venus flytrap to an EKG to demonstrate how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement, and can even count in this episode of TED.

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