Did You Know?

• 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.
• Hundreds of football sized Brunsvigia bosmaniae flower heads emerge out of the ground at the same time exactly three weeks after autumn’s first 15mm of rain.
• 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 Pacific giant octopus doesn’t eat for six months while it tends its eggs. Once they hatch, she dies.
• Meerkats can dig their own body weight in dirt in a couple of seconds.