The acceleration of a chameleon’s tongue is five times faster
than an F16 fighter jet.
Brown-tufted capuchins:
Brown-tufted capuchin strip palm nuts and dry them out for two weeks in the sun before taking them to an anvil and smashing them open with a stone ‘hammer’ half their own body weight.
Sailfish
Sailfish are the fastest fish in the sea – they have been measured
doing 109 km per hour.
In their spectacular ‘rushing ceremony’, courting Western grebe couples
Western grebe couples run together, necks outstretched, on top of the water for up to 20 metres.
Killer whales are actually dolphins (delphinius orca).
African bullfrogs hibernate underground in dry, hard mucous
cocoons for up to two years until the rains come and set them free.
An adult Pacific giant octopus is about 4 metres long and the largest one
recorded weighed 270kg – yet newborns are only the size of a grain of rice.
A single Beaded sea snake
Beaded Sea Snake carries enough venom to kill 52
people.
Some snakes can go for two years without food.
Meerkats
Meerkats can dig their own body weight in dirt in a couple of
seconds. They also cannot focus on anything further than six metres away, so when they bob their heads they are trying to get the perspective right.
A Kasanka bat colony can home up to 11 million fruit bats which can consume 6 million kilograms of fruit in one night
Fruit bats pollinate 70% of the fruit that people eat in Africa.
Arctic reindeer move in herds of 8 million.
Female ring tailed lemurs are only receptive to mating for one day each
year, sometimes for a window of only six hours.
Clown fish
Clown fish are sexless apart from the dominant male and
female – if the female dies, the male becomes female.
Sailfish can strike bait moving at 32 km per hour – over four times
faster than Olympic gold medallist swimmer Michael Phelps.
Flamingos
Flamingos sometime fly 130 kilometres – twice a day – to get water.
A single male sage grouse may mate with 20 females in 3-4 hours –
peaking around the full moon.
Male Vogelkop bowerbirds
Vogelkop bowerbird spend 9-10 months a year working
on their spectacular bachelor pads – the perfect place to entertain and
impress the ladies.
When Monarch butterflies
Monarch butterflies gather, there are four million of
them for every 4,000 square metres of land – and one billion of them in Mexican forests.
A single subterranean nest of Grass cutter ants
Grass cutter ants can house up to
5 million individuals and you can see their colonies from space
The star-nosed mole has the best sense of touch of any mammal, with over 25,000 tiny papillae in each square cm of its 22 incredibly sensitive appendages.
Male Dawson bees
Dawson bees ambush the female as she emerges from
her burrow then fight over her, sometimes ripping her to pieces in the process.
There are 200 million insects for every one of us.
A caterpillar can increase its weight 10,000 times in ten days – equivalent
to a newborn baby growing to 40,000kg.
Bees fly 88,000 kilometres to produce every pound of honey and their flight is so efficient that they would need to eat only one ounce of honey to fly all the way around the globe.
An ant can carry up to 50 times its own body weight – that’s like one of
us picking up a transit van.
An average male grizzly bear can stand at over 2 metres tall on its hind legs and needs 300 to 580 km square of home range.
The Pacific giant octopus
Pacific giant octopus doesn’t eat for 6 months while it tends its eggs and once they hatch, she dies.
Small male cuttlefish
Male cuttlefish resort to sneaky tactics in the mating game – even pretending to be female to get in with the ladies.
Marine invertebrates outnumber fish by 100 to 1
Corals and other marine invertebrates make up 95% of life in the oceans
and are responsible for a tenth of the planet’s land.
Hundreds of football sized Brunsvigia bosmaniae
Brunsvigia bosmaniae
flower heads emerge out of the ground at the same time exactly 3 weeks after autumn’s first 15mm of rain.
The crimson resin that gives the dragon’s blood tree its name is
used to cure ailments, decorate houses and even as lipstick.
Red mangrove trees
Red mangrove trees
have an amazing ability to filter out salt – their levels are only 2% of that in the seawater that submerges them.
The oldest living things on the planet are Bristlecone pine trees
Bristlecone pine trees in California – some of them have been alive for 5,000 years.
The Venus flytrap
Venus flytrap can count – it has trigger hairs that snap the trap shut if aggravated twice in 20 seconds.
Bamboo
Bamboo can grow up to 46 cm per day – to a height of over 30
metres in three months.
Orang-utans 
Orang-utans rarely, if ever, come to ground
A gibbon’s call to defend its territory can be heard up to two kilometres away.