Did You Know?

• Sir David Attenborough visited the North Pole for the first time in his career - just 6 weeks after he had been to the South Pole - aged 84
• The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day.
• Meerkats can dig their own body weight in dirt in a couple of seconds.
• 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.
• 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.