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8) Lets talk about Lemmings
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When you hear the word “lemmings” you might think of two things:
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This video game and some sort of small creature that suicidally leap off cliffs when its population
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grows too large.
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In case you didn’t know lemmings are real and adorable and not suicidal.
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The origin of this myth is a bit unclear but the video game lemmings may have done a lot
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more to convince a younger generation that lemmings are willfully suicidal – and extremely
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frustrating to micromanage thus deserving of mass extermination.
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7) Daddly Longlegs
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These wispy-looking things have earned the reputation as the most poisonous of any spider.
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But they’re also pretty common so, you might wonder why more people don’t die from daddy
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longlegs bites every year.
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Like a good conspiracy theory, this myth, covers its own tracks by also saying that
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their fangs are too small to penetrate human skin.
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You could score one for team human except that this misconception is a triple whammy
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of wrongness:
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1) Daddy Longlegs don’t have fangs because
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2) They don’t produce venom because
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3) They aren’t even spiders
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6) Ostriches
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Let’s review the properties of these flightless birds, shall we?
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They’re up to nine feet tall, up to 340 pounds, aggressive, with sharp beaks and long
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claws.
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Essentially an ostrich is the closest thing to a living raptor you’re ever going to
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see.
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(That is our genetic engineering technology gets better – common dinopocapolipse!).
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Anyway, keeping these facts in mind, if you decide to threaten an ostrich do you really
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think it’s going to stick it’s head in the sand and wait to die?
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No, of course not, if you’re lucky it will run away at 40 miles an hour and if you’re
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not, it’s fatality time for you.
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Ostriches have no reason to hide and especially not in the stupidest way ever.
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If they did they would have survived about as long and another species of flightless
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bird.
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While we’re talking about flightless birds,
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5) Baby Birds
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A mother bird won’t abandon her baby because you’ve touched it any more than a human
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mother would abandon her baby if a bird touched it.
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If you find a baby bird and can easily reach the nest, it’s perfectly fine to put it
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back.
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4) Goldfish Memory
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Goldfish do have memories longer than three seconds or seven seconds or whatever other
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made up number always accompanies this fact.
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They can actually be trained and will remember what they learned for months.
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Which is more than can be said for many humans.
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On an unrelated note, Goldfish are also delicious.
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3) Dog Vision
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Poor dogs, forever living in their sad, monochrome worlds.
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Except, they don’t.
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Dogs do see color, but not quite like us.
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Most humans see three primary colors, red blue and green, but dogs are limited to two:
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they can see blues, but the rest of the color spectrum they can’t tell apart.
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Which they don’t mind, until you buy them a red toy and throw it into the green grass
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and act like they’re stupid for not finding it.
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It’s easy for you to see because your ancestors spent several million years foraging for red
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objects on a green background and so got quite good at it – unless they didn’t which
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in that case they died – but canine eyes are not monkey eyes and to your dog, if it
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isn’t blue it’s all the same color.
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So next time you’re at the pet store, get rover a blue toy.
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And, while we’re talking about vision lets talk about
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2) Bats
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Which, if you’ve ever looked at one, it should be immediately obvious they’re not
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blind because they look right back and you – with their eyes – that they use to see
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things.
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But they do one better by having an additional sense called echolocation that allows them
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to navigate the world in complete darkness, something you can’t do.
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So from the bat’s perspective you’re the blind one.
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1) You Can Boil a Frog to Death if you do it very slowly
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This one is true… sort of.
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Friedrich Goltz, demonstrated that a frog will remain blithely in a pot of water brought
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to boil if the temperature is raised slowly enough.
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However, the rather salient fact that is often left out of the retelling is that Goltz cut
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out the frogs’ brains before placing them in the pot.
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Which rather puts them at a disadvantage.
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Goltz also showed that if you don’t lobotomize the frog first then – surprise – it jumps
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out of the pot.
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It seems likely – but please don’t try this at home – that removing the brain of
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any animal would rather hinder their instinct of self preservation.
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And also make them more gullible about common misconceptions.
