Talk:Man-Eating Trees/@comment-24588058-20171030043545/@comment-31772644-20171030224350

Think of things like tortoises and whales, which can both reach incredible ages. Not the quickest things on the planet. When it comes to trees, who can potentially live thousands of years, hurrying is never really an issue. I think if you took average plant behaviour and sped it up significantly, you'd see similar activity as seen in most animals. So we assume, based on this, that the main factor in these man-eating trees isn't necesarily that they're predatory, but that they have the capacity for quick movement which allows them the ability to catch prey that your average oak couldn't.