Did You Know?

• The venus flytrap can count – it has trigger hairs that snap the trap shut if aggravated twice in 20 seconds.
• Clown fish live in anenomes to protect themselves from predators, covering themselves in a mucus layer which makes them immune to the sting.
• 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.
• 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.
• The oldest living things on the planet are bristlecone pine trees in California – some of them have been alive for 5,000 years.