Did You Know?

• Male ring-tailed lemurs anoint their tails with cologne to attract females, but the males often have a ‘stink fight’ when it’s a close run contest for a mate.
• A bee’s flight is so efficient that it would need to eat only one ounce of honey to fly all the way around the globe.
• Antarctic sea urchin babies can synthesize proteins more efficiently than any other organism ever recorded.
• The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day.
• 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.