The Toilet Plant...!

Sometimes Mother Nature adapts in some strange and pretty disgusting ways, at least in our way of thinking. What appears gross to us, works for nature...or so it would seem. Here, from Listverse, is an example.

Nepenthes lowii—Toilet Plant

If this strange looking pitcher reminds you of a commode, it should; though capable of trapping and digesting live prey, this species has adapted over time to an even more abundant and far more disgusting food source; its sweet, sticky secretions are also attractive tree shrews, and seem to have fast-acting laxative properties. Some lowii specimens studied in 2009 appeared to have been subsisting exclusively on tree shrew feces, and also made use of stray bird droppings caught in their gaping gullets.

Like I said, it works for nature. Still it sorta grosses me out, ya know?

Coffee in the kitchen this morning!