Did You Know?

• Male vogelkop bowerbirds spend nine to 10 months a year working on their spectacular bachelor pads – the perfect place to entertain and impress the ladies.
• Meerkats have a dark band around their eyes that reduces the sun’s glare – great for spotting predatory birds in the sky.
• When monarch butterflies gather, there are four million of them for every acre of land – and one billion of them in Mexican forests.
• A Kasanka bat colony consumes six million kg of fruit per night. An area the size of Central Park in Kasanka is home to up to 11 million fruit bats.
• The oldest living things on the planet are bristlecone pine trees in California – some of them have been alive for 5,000 years.