The cause of well known Boil disease (Beulenkrankheit) or Myxoboliasis tuberosa (Hofer) of the barbels in European waters.

The successful bats have been found to regurgitate blood for their unsuccessful cavemates.

Most fruits like a soil that is slightly acid to neutral 6–7 pH. These moorland plants, however, like an ericaceous (acid) soil with a pH more towards 5.

A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).