While you might think it would be prudent for animals to avoid these plants where possible, some bats voluntarily clamber inside them. Woolly bats are known to roost in Nepenthes hemsleyana, a ...

Low's pitcher plants grow on only a few mountainsides in Borneo. The bat pitcher plant (Nepenthes hemsleyana) has a fascinating alliance with woolly bats. Rather than producing nectar, it offers a ...

but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ecologist at Monash University in Australia who didn't take part in the ...