What are carnivorous plants? Detailed answer

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What are carnivorous plants?

Some plants living on poor soils (in particular, with a lack of nitrogen) are able to replenish mineral hunger at the expense of other organisms, mainly small insects.

Approximately 450 species of insectivorous plants are known on all inhabited continents, but most of them are in southwestern Australia. They trap their prey with adhesives and other devices, and break down their prey with enzymes.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Who is a narwhal?

Narwhal is one of the most interesting members of the cetacean family. Many of us believe that there is only one type of whale, but in fact there are several varieties of them. The most interesting of them are the so-called toothed whales. Toothed whales prey on fish and cephalopods and feed mainly on them.

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. They reach twenty meters in length, and their distinctive feature is a massive head.

Another representative of this suborder is the bottlenose, so named because of the strange bone growths on the sides of the head. Narwhal is also a toothed whale. It lives mostly in arctic waters and has something that no other whale has: the male narwhal has a long bone tusk growing on the left side of its mouth that sticks out like a sword!

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