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When you're a kid, you don't have every answer in the world. OK, nobody has, but the little ones are especially oblivious to the stuff that's happening around them. So they "invent" explanations. Like, the reason ostriches bury their head in the sand is because they're afraid. Or a goldfish's memory lasts only 3 seconds. Yes, these "facts" are perfect examples of how rich a child's imagination is but they're also incorrect. So, in order to educate his followers, TikTok user Mndiaye_97 has released a series of videos where he exposes all the animal myths we believe as kids. Thanks to the guy's charisma, the videos came out just as entertaining as they're educational. But before you continue, I have a warning: YOUR LIFE WAS A LIE. Happy scrolling!

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Becky Samuel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dogs that are poorly socialised as puppies can be remarkably and sometimes violently racist. It used to be common practice in South Africa to train protection dogs to hate and fear black people, and it's depressingly easy to do.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bullfighting is terribly brutal and has no reason to exist IMO. That said, they don't torture the bulls to be more agressive, but to placate them so they charge while lowering the head .

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Interestingly, Milan Kubiatko of J. E. Purkyne University, Faculty of Science, and Pavol Prokop of Comenius University in Bratislava have analyzed this subject on an academic level. In 2007, they published a paper, called "Pupils' misconceptions about mammals" and presented quite a few intriguing findings.

Focusing on children aged 10 to 15, they developed a questionnaire with 35 multiple choice and open-ended questions. The researchers then handed out these questionnaires to 468 children from 6 elementary schools in Slovakia, Europe.

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They don't. Even if they did, we wouldn't know because there isn't a machine big enough to scan their brains. We've killed thousands of them and after years of generational trauma they really don't see us as cute.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So they don´t, but we wouldn´t know so we don´t know they don´t which means maybe they do.

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"The children's ideas were examined in five dimensions (animal classification and phylogeny; food; foraging strategies; parental care; senses, morphology, and anatomy)," Kubiatko and Prokop wrote, adding that they found "serious misconceptions" about mammals across all age groups.

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For example, the majority of the children incorrectly thought that dinosaurs were closely related to mammoths (51%) and whales (8%) rather than birds (41%). And only 47.4% of the children surveyed knew that lions usually hunt in groups.

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Lions often yawn to show irritation, so this isn't a father building confidence, it's just Mufasa about to backhand the lights out of Simba.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aw, it's a shame that's debunked, that was a cute one.

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They just have very bad eyesight and frantic movements scare them.

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Also, the children had great misconceptions about the contents of the camel's hump. Nearly 80% said it's where the animal stores water and only 20% of the children answered correctly—the hump contains fat. 

However, most of the children (91.8%) knew that whales did not lay eggs and that the function of the kangaroo's pouch is carrying young (95%). They got plenty of other questions right as well.

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They aren't. They use their tongues as toilet paper.

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They can actually remember up to five months and can be taught to remember human faces.

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It doesn't work, it can actually cause the sting to release more venom.

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Koalas don't get high on eucalyptus, it's just that this genius animal insists on eating something that gives them zero energy which is why koalas look tired.

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This myth started because a Disney documentary crew chased lemmings off a cliff to their death and then edited the footage to seem like the animals did it themselves.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should have read the whole post before I commented, I mentioned lemmings on another picture.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't necessarily have better eyesight than us. It's just different. In some areas their's are better than ours, like during the dark hours but our vision is sharper etc. Also not all bats have the same type of vision.

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Penguins are just reluctant to jump into the water. Eventually one or two might dive so the rest decide to follow them, but they don't push each other.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me a bit like the lemmings myth. No lemmings do not mass suicide by jumping off cliffs

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just you harming their skin but also them possibly harming you as some produce a toxin through their skin.

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They don't, it depends on height they fall from. The higher they fall the less injuries they get.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really, the statistic behind this urban myth has been thoroughly debunked. The injuries were only measured from the cats that survived the fall. Most cats that had falls from a greater height were killed outright, leaving a few lucky survivors that had soft landings to skew the results.

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It's because they would've had better eyesight and smell than raptors today.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok, so you basically have no chance surviving an encounter with a t-rex.

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