Samuel L. Jackson's fourth theatrically released animated film, after The Incredibles (2004), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), and Astro Boy (2009), as well as his first film to be rated G by the MPAA.
The name "Zambezia" was a Victorian-era term for the area of southeastern Africa that later became known as "Rhodesia", and is today called "Zimbabwe".
The attack method used by Gogo against the lizard is the same method used by the Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, the "Dambusters", during Operation Chastise on May 16 and 17 of 1943, in which nineteen Avro Lancaster bombers flew low over the Eder, Möhne, and Sorpe (Röhr) rivers in Germany's Ruhr Valley and released specially-developed "bouncing bombs" to attack German dams. Two dams (the Edersee and the Möhne) were breached, eight aircraft were shot down, fifty-three aircrew were killed, and three were taken prisoner.
Zoe is a Black-shouldered Kite.
Gogo is a Saddle-billed Stork.