Top Ten Myths About Animals

The Top Ten
1 Dogs have black and white vision

All your answers are wrong here. Dogs see the colour blue better than others. So it's pretty much they see blue and everything else is dimmer and more obscure to the dog. Because yellow is opposite to blue in the light spectrum, yellow can be identified. Dogs can't decipher red and green however.

They're capable of seeing shades of blue and yellow.

I've had to explain this to too many people.

2 A goldfish has a three second memory

If a fish swims in a circle to get food and gets food, it will swim in a circle every time it gets food, so a fish (with scientific study) has about 3 MONTHS of memory!

This is not true... I have trained my goldfish..

Impossible, I once tapped a fish bowl and that fish still flares at me today

3 Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when threatened

I think this rumor was probably promulgated by Penny the Elder (AD 23-79), who wrote that ostriches "imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed."

4 Camels' humps are full of water

Wouldn't it jiggle if its full of water?

The hump is full of fatty sacks that holds water that depletes after 2 weeks

5 Daddy long legs are venomous, but they can't bite
6 Mother birds will reject their young once touched by humans

It's wrong I am a animal rescuer. You should not touch a baby animal unless it's injury is seriously life threatening

This gets a lot of birds killed.

7 Bulls charge at the sight of red

Incorrect. Bulls actually charge because the movement of the flag irritates them.

Actually no, bulls are color blind.

8 Bats are blind
9 Cutting a worm in half will result in two worms

Cutting planarians in half result in two planarians. Worms can regenarate but just one side of it has mouth, the other dies.

10 Owls are wise
The Contenders
11 Wild dolphins are friendly and will save humans in trouble
12 One human year is equivalent to seven dog years

It all depends on the dog. Larger dogs age more quickly.

13 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

I think this is actually true. It may be hard top believe that other animals jump, but they do! Elephants can't jump because they're too heavy! (or something, if that's not true)

14 Touching a butterfly's wings will kill it
15 Insects are not animals
16 A healthy dog's nose is cold and wet
17 Lemmings commit suicide
18 Chameleons change color to blend in
19 Bulls hate red
20 The best way to get rid of skunk spray is to use tomatoes
21 Humans aren’t the only one that kills their own kind

True. Lots of zebras can do bad damage to each other and their abusive to other animals too.

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