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.
• A single beaded sea snake carries enough venom to kill 52 people.
• In the great sardine run, shoals of millions swirl, dance and transform in shape as they move from the cold Atlantic to the sub-tropical Indian Ocean – with vast numbers of predators in hot pursuit.
• Some snakes can go for two years without food.
• 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.