from ScienceNOW Daily News
25 January, 2011
A predator that can’t hunt won’t last very long. So when biologists found a carnivorous plant in Borneo that was bad at catching insects, they were puzzled. Just what does it eat to stay alive? The answer, a new study reveals, appears to be bat guano. The enigmatic plant makes a snug roost for tiny bats, which drop nutritious excrement into their host’s digestive fluid.