Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo, is very well known for its spectacular caves, which host a thriving ecosystem of bats, birds, snakes, spiders and various creepy crawlies. The surface is equally as spectacular and home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. When trekking through the jungle on the way to the caves, I love taking it all in. Carnivorous Pitcher plants live in this jungle, but they are rare and not so common to find. Where they are found, they are normally on the ground, but on one occasion I was lucky enough to find them clinging to a cliff face many hundreds of metres up in the air. Pitcher plants have evolved to trap their prey with specialist leaves called pitfall traps in which they drown in digestive liquid.
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