And sometimes, just sometimes, deer eat meat. Nature is wild.
choosing violence
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Pandantic@midwest.social 8 months ago
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’ve seen a horse eat a duckling.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Butterflies can drink sweat and blood
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Great tits sometimes hunt bats and eat their brains.
tilefan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
doesn’t it have to get minerals or something from the insects it eats? if you fertilize them they’ll die
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was always told that the traps die but the plant lives on if it’s getting enough from the soil.
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 months ago
They live on nitrogen-poor soil and eat insects to cope with it.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 months ago
There is no free will. And Venus Flytrap’s privilege and intersectionality is what forms them.
starchylemming@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i mean, do you always choose the vegan option?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Look ma! The plants are just like me!
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
intrusive thoughts
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have a pitcher plant hanging on my back deck. Its incessant thirst for flesh amuses me.
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
They can live, but they can’t thrive.
lunarul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just looked up the other day how to take care of the venus flytrap my sun insisted we buy. It said it needs poor soil, do not fertilize it, and that they get their nutrients from their prey (and should be fed if kept indoors).
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re a huge pain in the ass to take care of. Ours died because it got rained on
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Plant it in peat moss mixed with sand and only water with distilled water or rainwater. It needs a lot of light too, so keep it near a south facing window
tilefan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I keep mine in sphagnum moss, and water it with distilled water.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 months ago
This makes me wonder: if you give them nicer soil than they evolved in, can they still use those nutrients instead, or do they require insects to survive now?
Dagamant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
nope, it kills them because they cant handle all the extra stuff
The_v@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They really don’t care where the nutrients come from. However they take very little to keep going for a long time.
Cell biologist I worked with tested tested this one.
He placed 10 small plants into sterile agar made with diluted Hoagland’s solution. He then sealed the petri dishes with petrifilm (gas permeable). Then placed them under a low light (4 T12’s at 20cm and a 12 hour photoperiod).
He started them about 5 years before I met him. We worked together for 11 years and he never lost a plant.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I guess this depends on if they lost functional roots or not. If they are like bromeliads that lost water uptake in their roots (which instead take up water and nutrients through trichomes in their tank) then they probably don’t care about how much nutrients are in the soil. I’d think that as most bromeliads are epiphytes without any real type of soil that that is the reason they lost this functionality. And that many species of carnivorous plants are usually just growing in nutrient-poor soils. So eating animals would just be a way to get more/sufficient nutrients but that it might be still useful for them to have functional roots.
But this is only speculation. Maybe someone else has more tangible info?