Savage Gardens & Nature’s Ninjas

For the next three months, meat eating plants and stealth creatures will be on display at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

The exhibit has large scale mechanical model of the Venus Fly Trap. But it also has the real thing.

Also in this exhibit are plants, reptiles, and other animals that have some pretty cool methods of staying alive in the wild.  Check it out.

The Dart Frog is among the most poisonous animals in the world.

The Eastern Green Mamba, has venom powerful enough to kill a human being.

Torie Evans is with Nature’s Ninja’s: “We have a couple of venomous animals that use that venom to protect them, eat pray and things like that and as a defence as well.”

Natures Ninjas is showcasing 20 different creatures that have unique ways of defending themselves in the wild, like this Red-footed Tortois.

Torie says: “Tortouses have nice shell’s for protections, they’re easy going and have no way of fighting back, so what they want to do is tuck their limbs away nice and safe.”

The Bearded Dragon doesn’t use poison to survive in the wild; just it’s prickly appearance.

Torie says: “Looking at him he looks unappealing, it looks like he’s got sharp spikes that’s not going to feel good going down an animals throat. They’re going to leave him alone because of this.”

Creatures aren’t the only thing struggling to survive in the wild. Plants like the Pitcher Plant also have defensive techniques. Torie says: “It’s got an attractive bit at top that attracts the bug, they slip into the trap and juices break them down.”

Well that’s a bit more aggressive than defensive. And so is the venus fly trap.

Kyle Horner is with the Royal Botanical Gardens: “This exhibit is called Savage Gardens, and it’s all about carniverous plants, plants that eat meat, turn the table on the animal world munching on flies and sometimes bigger things.”

The Nature’s Ninja’s and Savage Garden’s exhibit opens to the public on Saturday and runs until April 13th. It’s an interactive “hands on” exhibit for the whole family.