Editing Ape-Eating Plant

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Vine Chomp.png|100px]]<br>Model
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]'' ([[List of games by date#2013|2013]])
|variant_of=[[Chomp (Donkey Kong Country series)|Chomp]]
}}
[[File:DKCR Chomppic1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot from ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'']]
'''Ape-Eating Plants''',<ref>{{cite|date=May 24, 2013|author=Knight, Michael and Alexander Musa|language=en-us|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|title=''Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D'' Prima Official Game Guide|page=95|isbn=978-0-804-161497|quote=The next vines you swing across have Ape-Eating Plants at the top.}}</ref> originally known as '''hungry plants''',<ref>{{cite|author=Knight, Michael|title=''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' Prima Official Game Guide|page=87|date=November 21, 2010|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|isbn=978-0-307-47102-4|language=en-us|quote=The next vines you swing across have hungry plants at the top.}}</ref> are [[List of enemies|enemies]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and its [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|Nintendo Switch]] ports. They appear exclusively in some vine levels of the [[Forest (Donkey Kong Country Returns)|Forest]], and Ape-Eating Plants are first encountered in the level [[Vine Valley (level)|Vine Valley]]. These carnivorous plants are a blue, medium-sized variant of [[Chomp (Donkey Kong Country series)|Chomps]] with a tongue in the shape of a [[swinging vine|hanging vine]]. Ape-Eating Plants always appear on the ceiling where they hide behind some leaves while sticking their tongue down. When the [[Kong]]s grab its tongue, the plant slowly pulls the tongue back to its mouth, attempting to eat the Kongs. Its tongue is necessary for progressing higher into the level, and the Kongs must quickly get off its tongue to avoid being eaten. If it does, although a prompt does not appear to indicate this like with [[green Chomp]]s, the player is able to force the Kongs out by shaking the controller (pressing {{button|3ds|x}} or {{button|3ds|y}} repeatedly in the port). If successful, the Kongs escape unharmed; otherwise, after a period of time, the plant spits them out and they lose a heart. Ape-Eating Plants cannot be defeated by any attack.
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==Gallery==
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ChompDKCR.png|Concept artwork of a hungry plant (third from the left) alongside the other Chomps
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=アオパクパク<ref>{{cite|language=ja|date=2010|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|title=「ドンキーコングリターンズ任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Donkey Kong Returns Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|DKR Shogakukan P21.jpg|21}}}}</ref>
|JpnR=Ao Pakupaku
|JpnM=From「青」(''ao'', blue) and「パクパク」(''pakupaku'', onomatopoeia for devouring)
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Carnivorous plants]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns enemies]]