It Hides Under the Soil With a Huge Appetite for Meat.

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  • Author(s): WILKE, CAROLYN
  • Source:
    New York Times. 7/12/2022, Vol. 171 Issue 59482, pD2-D2. 1/6p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      APPETITE; SOILS; MEAT
    • Abstract:
      The article reports that A newl y discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects on the down low: Ir s the first such plant known to grow working traps underground. Martin Dancak, a plant taxonomist, and Wewin Tjiasmamo, a naturalist, came across the covert carnivore in 2012 while hiking with colleagues in the rainforest in North Kalimantan, a province of Indonesia on the island of Borneo.