Did You Know?

• The crimson resin that gives the dragon’s blood tree its name is used to cure ailments, decorate houses and even as lipstick.
• Small male cuttlefish resort to sneaky tactics in the mating game – even pretending to be female to get in with the ladies.
• Fruit bats pollinate 70% of the fruit that people eat in Africa. Arctic reindeer move in herds of 8 million.
• Clever capuchins (American monkeys), strip palm nuts and dry them out for two weeks in the sun before taking them to an anvil and smashing them open with a stone ‘hammer’ half their own body weight.
• Meerkats cannot focus on anything within six metres of themselves. When they bob their heads they are trying to get the perspective right.