Did You Know?

• 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 venus flytrap can count – it has trigger hairs that snap the trap shut if aggravated twice in 20 seconds.
• Meerkats cannot focus on anything within six metres of themselves. When they bob their heads they are trying to get the perspective right.
• The Pacific giant octopus doesn’t eat for six months while it tends its eggs. Once they hatch, she dies.
• Clown fish live in anenomes to protect themselves from predators, covering themselves in a mucus layer which makes them immune to the sting.