The most dramatic of those solutions are the carnivorous plants.

Plants That Eat Animals

The word “carnivorous plant” is startling, and it is supposed to be — the idea of a plant that traps, kills, and digests animals violates something fundamental about the mental model most people have of plant and animal roles.

Plants photosynthesize.

Animals eat.

That is the basic division of the living world, and it is taught in every elementary school science class.

But the elementary school model is incomplete.