Eucalypts.

Carnivory is a common plant adaption to low-nutrient soils, but here we have a whole continent of nutrient-poor soils. So one family of trees levelled up and evolved a new toolkit.

Pyrocarnivory.

All inhabited continents have wildfires in dry woodlands, and these wildfires put out about 1 kW / m2 of heat. Enough to burn the leaves off fire-adapted plants, and kill non-fire-adapted plants and leave their nutrients in the ashes. Many species are adapted to take advantage of fire to kill rival plants.

But its not enough to reliably kill animals of any size. They move too fast.

So Australian eucalypts, in hot and lightning-prone weather, start emitting clouds of droplets of a natural napalm-analog, eucalyptol. When this eventually ignites, it creates a fire that burns with an intensity of 40 kW / m2 (up to 100 kW/m2 has been recorded), and depending on winds can move at 100km/h (60 mph).

This can quickly reduce a medium-sized mammal into ash. About 2.5kg of high-quality calcium, phosphorous and potassium, and often calcined to fine grey powder.

The eucalypts can easily survive their own fires (it only lasts ~5 minutes, not the ~1 hour of forest fires elsewhere), and then they use their roots to consume the animal remains.

Eucalypts are not just carnivorous, but pyrocarnivorous, and they hunt as a pack.

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