Did You Know?

• Cuttlefish can change colour and texture to match their background, easily impersonating seaweed, sand or rubble.
• An ant can carry up to 50 times its own body weight – that’s like one of us picking up a transit van.
• 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.
• Brunsvigia bosmaniae flower heads snap at the base and roll across the ground to disperse their pea-sized seeds in the wind.
• 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.