Did You Know?

• Meerkats have a dark band around their eyes that reduces the sun’s glare – great for spotting predatory birds in the sky.
• Older vogelkop bowerbirds have especially stylish homes, decorated with thousands of colourful objects from the forest and even carpeted with moss.
• 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.
• From June to September, hungry North American bears congregate for the great salmon run.
• If you put all of the world’s insects and all the world’s humans on a pair of scales, the insects would weigh 300 times as much.