OuiSi Nature · Card 207
Ant Living in a Fanged Pitcher Plant
Nepenthes bicalcarata
- Location
- Andulau Forest Reserve, Brunei
- Date
- March 25, 2015
Photograph byChristian ZieglerDescription
These ants are immune to the pitcher plant’s digestive liquid—they drag a grasshopper out to eat, simultaneously helping the plant by removing the large insect that would spoil in the liquid.
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The photographer
Christian Ziegler
Tropical biologist turned photojournalist for Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and NatGeo.
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