Simon like exciting films,but Debbie prefers nature films. One day, she said,'Do you want to watch this video,Simon? It's about strange living things. They can be very tinny or huge! Some have lots of bodyguards to protect them. Some live for thousands of years.And some are killers and kidnappers! Simon said,'It sounds really exciting!' But he had a surprise when he watched it. Here are some excerpts from it.Tgw Weird World of Plants This is the Venus Fly Trap. It has two special leaves,and each leaf has several hairs in the middle. If an insect touches one of these, the leaves start to shut together. The insect often tries to run away. But the plant moves more quickly than the insect. The victim is trapped in a little prison. Soon it dies, and the plant gradually absorbs it. Plants live the longest of all things on Earth. A Bristlecone Pine in California is 4,700 years old and is still alive older than any written history. Plants can be as small as one cell,like the millions of tiny plants in the seas. One of the smallest is the Lichen plant which grows on stones. It is probably the plant which grows the most slowly. It can take a hundred years to grow a few centimetres. But plants can also be as big as the Giant Redwood, the world's most massive living thing. One tree in California is 84 m high and probably over two thousand tonnes in weight. No other type of tree grows higher than the Giant Redwood. The Dead Horse Arum attracts flies by looking and smelling like dead meat. Once they get inside the plant,it shuts a door, and keeps them prisoner for a night. During the night, it drops pollen on them. It releases them the next morning covered in pollen, so that they can go and carry the pollen to another Arum. One type of Acacia tree in South America encourages ants to live in it. The tree provides the ants with a home(in special branches) and with food (little pieces of protein at the end of some leaves). In return,the ants defend their tree as fiercely as they can. They attack any other insect or animal which comes near, and even remove other plants growing near it.