Some trees can move water from their roots to their leaves at a rate of 25 millimetres (1 inch) per second.
Tainted catch
Tainted catch It has been found that when fed food contaminated
by PCB, stickleback fish spend more time rolling the food around in
their mouths before eating it. Researchers say that this altered
behaviour could affect other aspects of the fishes' lives, as more
time is spent eating it rather than mating or evading
predators. APRIL 10, 1999, P. 19