Pacu fish are one of the main distributors of tropical seed in
South America. They have powerful jaws and strong teeth that can
crack open hard rainforest nuts and take them to new locations.
This process is crucial to rainforest survival through diversity
and regeneration. Despite a fearsome repetition as dangerous
animals, crocodiles make gentle parents. They construct river-
side nest using decaying plant material that generates heat as
it decomposes, just like a compost heap at home. Thousands of
south Asian box turtles are hunted every year in Southern Asia
to meet huge demand for food and the international pet trade, as
well as for prized ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine.
The wild population now risks extinction, worsened by their slow
reproduction that cannot replace those being taken fast enough.
Monkeys use these extraordinary millipedes as a natural remedy
to repel pests living in their skin. Monkeys roll and bite
captured millipedes to release defensive toxins. These toxins
usually deter