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Can carnivorous plants eat people?
Popular Science tackles a question that resurfaces every time giant carnivorous plants make headlines: whether plants like pitcher plants or the Venus flytrap could consume a human. The short answer is no. These plants are built to trap and digest insects and, at most, small vertebrates like frogs or rodents. A human is far too large, and the digestive enzymes involved are far too weak to pose any real danger to people.
Why now: Curiosity about nature and sensational depictions of man-eating plants keep this science question circulating.
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