here she is, plant-eating rats

Maybe we have learned that in this world there are some plants that can prey on small insects such as flies, crickets, ants, and others. One of these predatory plants are IN PLANTS.

Nepenthes, known as the "Ketakong" we usually find in the jungles of Indonesia. The plant is small enough to be able to eat animals for mice. But in the Philippines, has been found PLANTS plant big enough to devour a kind of rodent mice. Ketakong is called by the name Nepenthes attenboroughii.

The discovery of this plant originated from two missionaries who in 2000 tried to climb the mountain of Victoria. Mount is located in Palawan, Philippines including the rarely visited it human. They climbed with little preparation until finally lost for thirteen days before it can be saved. When he returned, they claimed to see giant PLANTS plants.

It is then attracted the attention of nature lovers like Stewart McPherson and independent botanists like Alastair Robinson from the UK and Volker Heinrich from the Philippines. All three are experts ketakong plants and has traveled to many remote areas searching for new species.

In 2007, they melakukakn espedisi for two months in the philippines, including mountain climbing Victoria. When hiking through lowland forests, they found a large ketakong plants known as Nepenthes philippinensis, along with ferns, pink and blue mushrooms that have not been able to diindentifikasikan.

The discovery of new people who actually found at an altitude of about 1600 above sea level. They found a lot of great ketakong plants and knew immediately that it was not a recognizable species. This new plant named Nepenthes attenboroughii, taken from a natural event broadcaster David Attenborough. Ketakong it is one of the largest carnivorous plants and produce spectacular traps that are not only able to catch insects, but also rodents such as rats.

The characteristic plants ketakong usually grow in large numbers. McPherson hopes mountains of the remote locations difficult to access that will prevent damage poachers. In the same expedition, the team also found other ketakong Nepenthes deaniana is already not seen the last 100 years, the last specimen of the species lost in the fire herbarium in 1945.

When we got off the mountain, the team is still finding new species of plants sundrew, a type of plant with sticky traps that are members of the genus Drosera.