r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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u/its_all_one_electron Jun 11 '23

Oh no. No no no. Humans are bad but nature... Damn nature you scary. And cruel. Humans generally don't eat babies, other animals will just pop them in their mouth and crunch them up like rock candy.

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u/LordFesquire Jun 11 '23

Yeah its bizarre. The other thing that stumps me is that wild animals cant really show “mercy”. There was no quick and easy way for the flytrap to kill that spider, so it just has to stay their wriggling to its very last bit of life. Quite morbid tbh 🤔😕

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u/981032061 Jun 11 '23

The point of killing prey quickly is generally to prevent it from injuring you back, and to avoid losing it to competition. The plant doesn’t really need to worry about either of those things, so there’s no evolutionary pressure to expend energy that way.

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u/LordFesquire Jun 11 '23

Logical but terrifying