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birdsongs • today at 11:28 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

This is really interesting, but they're not carnivorous. The decaying salmon deposit nutrients in the soil. Carnivorous plants actually digest the insects directly for nutrients, usually because the soil is inhospitable.


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david-gpu • today at 12:16 PM

Yeah, I think it's the absence of traits evolved to attract, trap, and digest salmon that are all missing here.

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