The chimpanzee lives in groups of anything from 15 to 80 animals. It is also one of the few mammals to use tools that help in finding food.
A colony of black-tailed prairie dogs, a North American ground squirrel, discovered in 1901, contained around 400 million individuals and was estimated to cover 61,400 sq.km.
Spiders are able to produce anaesthetics, glue, glue-proof oil and silk within their bodies.
The shrew, a mouse-like insectivorous mammal has the fastest heartbeat than any other, with a rate of 1 200 beats per minute, which is similar to that of a hummingbird when hovering.
The green turtle lives off the coast of South America and travels 2,200 km across the Atlantic to Ascension Island where it breeds. Sometimes 40,000 turtles, all together, come ashore at night.
In the scorching hot desert, the dromedary, Arabian camel, endures temperatures of 50 to C it can 9°without eating or drinking for weeks, with a reserve of fat in its hump. When it comes to a well or an oasis, it stores up 140 litres of water in less than 15 minutes.
Astronauts in space move with the help of MMU, (Manouevre Movement Unit), the flying chair. This has 24 push buttons on the arm rest to manouevre the movement in such a way as the EMU (Extra-vehicular-mobility), a type of small rocket mounted on the back of the space suit, with batteries and oxygen weighing 70 kg.
