Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path. So why isn't the bat on the menu?

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It's no load of crap—a carnivorous plant in Borneo survives mostly off of bat feces, a new study says.. A type of Hardwicke's woolly bat and a subspecies of the Nepenthes rafflesiana pitcher ...

When you gotta go you gotta go, and for small tropical mammals called tree shrews, a pitcher plant serves as a handy toilet, new video research finds. IE 11 is not supported.

A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual, mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The bat roosts and relieves itself in the plant's prey-trapping pitchers ...

By Mark Brown, Wired UK In a bizarre example of a symbiotic relationship, tiny bats in Borneo have been found using a carnivorous plant as a toilet, feeding the pitcher plant with their droppings ...

The giant montane pitcher plant is a botanical predator, ruthlessly luring in prey and feasting on its victims--except when it's not. Researchers have discovered that the carnivorous plant is mighty ...

Bat uses carnivorous plant as a toilet. Thursday, 27 January 2011 Jennifer Viegas ... Although both the bat and the carnivorous plant prey on insects, they are not in competition with each other.