Favoritos de paradoxornithidae

Something you don’t see every Monday... A retic killing an Oriental Pied Hornbill. Berjaya Langkawi Beach Resort next to Prayer Building and Pool !!! on Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia Whether it was the cumbersome meal or the increasing group of onlookers, the Hornbill sadly went to waste as the python released it and disappeared into a subterranean hole amongst cemented ornamental rocks. The snake was approximately seven feet or perhaps eight in length.

Notes:
the *dealated Queen will tip her abdomen up in the air and releases sex pheromone into the air to attract males (ie Kings). *dealated: divested of the wings - used of postnuptial adults of insects (as ants) that drop their wings after a nuptial flight

Unlike its carnivorous cousins, the Flask-shaped Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes ampullaria) has largely evolved away from a taste for insects. Instead, it is known as a detritivore, meaning that it obtains a majority of its nutrients from decomposing plant matter.
The uniquely shaped traps of N. ampullaria; with their small, backward facing peristomes, are special adaptions to increase the efficiency of trapping leaf litter as they fall directly from the canopy to the forest floor. The "digestion" of plant matter is then aided by organisms such as insect larvae and bacteria that live in the Pitcher and is absorbed by the plant as ammonium ions.