Part of me wants to testify in favour of the fox – give it a cuddly character reference and so on. But the other side of me says that we were warned about his behaviour long ago – first by Roald Dahl and then by Wes Anderson.

Mr. Fox (the fantastic one) is probably the most famous fox around these parts, but we must remember that, lovable though he was, he was a vicious, brazen thief.

So next time you find that a fox has hid your remote or keyed your Mondeo, accept it and try not to take it to heart.

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.

The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.

They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.

They have been causing havoc with Japanese fishermen, ripping and clogging up nets.

This poor little ant has been infected with Cordyceps Fungus, it transfers itself though spores from host to host, killing any that come into contact with it.

Whats interesting is that once infected, the ant becomes disorientated and starts climbing upwards.. once high up in the trees, the ant eventually dies. The fungus then erupts out of the ants body, flowers, and spreads its spores, which hopefully because of the increased altitude can drift for miles and infect other ants.

Once an ant it discovered to be infected, the rest of the colony reject and even kill it if necessary, and the bodies taken and dumped far away from the nest. Fungi like this are apparently key in keeping any one species from becoming too dominant in rain-forests.

So that’s why the coconut crab is a whopping foot and a half long with pincers that look like they could snap you in two.

This one has decided to take someone’s bin, I would guess that there isn’t much the owner could do about it other that stand helplessly nearby.

Apparently they are sometimes kept as pets in Tokyo, but require special cages that the pincers cannot cut through.

The star nosed mole also has the title of the fastest eater, identifying edible food within 0.1 of a second.. much faster than the 0.2 average for moles. It takes just 0.08 of a second to decide if an item is edeable or not.

The little critter can also smell underwater by blowing bubbles onto a surface an inhaling them quickly afterward. Not much is known about him, but it’s thought that they live in colonies.

This, my friends, is the Proboscis Monkey – sometimes known as the Long-nosed Monkey (no shit).

The male Proboscis likes to live surrounded by his harem of giant-conked lovers in an idyllic little arrangement in Borneo.

Interestingly, Indonesians used to refer to the monkey as the Dutch monkey, because they thought it was the spitting image of Dutch colonists, with their big noses and big bellies.

It’s also said that the nose on a Proboscis can grow up to a ‘huge’ seven inches. Seven? Pretty average I’d say.