Wild & Weird: Animal Facts

The water strider stands on the skin of the water and pushes off, and for a while the physics said it couldn't go anywhere at all.

In Katmai, Alaska, a brown bear stands in a waterfall eating salmon as fast as they leap, tossing most of each fish away, because its body is running a calculation it can't afford to get wrong.

The male sedge warbler builds a practically endless supply of songs out of a handful of phrases, and the female sedge warbler is keeping score.

Rays move in radically different ways depending on their habitat, and engineers are copying every one of those movements.

When a big school of fish swims too close, lemon sharks stop choosing what to bite, and that includes each other.