http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8195000/8195029.stm
New species of pitcher plant discovered which
Get Attenborough up there immediately! I need to see footage of this baby eating a rat!
They should have named it Audrey. 
Spooky!
I need to forward this to the guys who do the landscaping behind this building.
Although I once saw a hawk trying to do a giant pitcher plant imitation. Rat 1, Hawk 0.
Aw. They named it after him.
<channeling Audrey>
FFEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD MMMMMEEEEEE!
</cA>
Ah, carnivorous plants. The men’s nipples of the taxonomic world. The biathlon of nature. The Spalding Gray. The particle-wave duality. The infield fly rule. The Ron Paul.
I love carnivorous plants. Darwin did too, as I recall. There’s something about the combination of passive plant and carnivorous animal that’s really fascinating.
And I hate to burst your bubble, but there are other large carnivorous plants known to take out rats/similarly sized mammals. If you’re like me, though, this news will kind of inflate your bubble rather than burst it.
There are? :eek:
When they develop legs, I’ll start worrying.
I, for one, would LOVE a pet triffid.
Well, I hope you keep it on a leash!
That would be Audrey II. Audrey was the girlfriend.
It wouldn’t be all that impressive a sight – kind of like watching an enclosed glue trap work. Pitcher plants simply grow a container of sorts that holds water, and which is hard for animals to crawl out of. They crawl in, drown, decay, and the decay products are absorbed by the plant.
More energetic carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap or the Sundew generally don’t grow large enough to tackle more than insects. For better or worse…
Or Audrey, Jr. if we went by the original movie.