Did You Know?

• There are 200 million insects for every one of us. A caterpillar can increase its weight 10,000 times in 10 days – equivalent to a newborn baby growing to 40 tons.
• Tarsiers have the largest eye to body size ratio of all mammals.
• An adult Pacific giant octopus is about four metres long and the largest one recorded weighed 270kg – yet newborns are only the size of a grain of rice.
• In the breeding grounds of Tonga, 40 ton humpback whale males crash into each other at full speed to compete for the ladies.
• Small male cuttlefish resort to sneaky tactics in the mating game – even pretending to be female to get in with the ladies.