Number eight, let's talk about lemmings. When you hear the word lemmings, you might think of two things. This video game and some sort of small creature that suicidally leaps off cliffs when its population grows too large. In case you didn't know, lemmings are real and adorable and not suicidal. The origin of this myth is a bit unclear, but the video game Lemmings may have done a lot to convince a younger generation that Lemmings are willfully suicidal and extremely frustrating to micromanage thus deserving of mass extermination. Number 7. Daddy Long Legs These wispy-looking things have earned the reputation as the most poisonous of any spider, but they're also pretty common, so you might wonder why more people don't die of Daddy Longleg bites every year. every year. Like a good conspiracy theory, this myth covers its own tracks by saying that their fangs are too small to penetrate human skin.

You could score one for Team Human, except that this misconception is a triple whammy of wrongness. One, Daddy Long Legs don't have fangs because, two, they don't produce venom, because three, they aren't even spiders. Number six, ostriches. Let's review the properties of these flightless bird, shall we? They're up to nine feet tall, up to 340 pounds, aggressive with sharp beaks and long claws.

Essentially, an Ostriches. Let's review the properties of these flightless birds, shall we? They're up to nine feet tall, up to 340 pounds, aggressive, with sharp beaks and long claws.

Essentially, an ostrich is the closest thing to a living raptor you're ever going to see. That is until our genetic engineering technology gets better. Come on, dynopocalypse. Anyway, keeping these facts in mind, if you decide to threaten an ostrich, do you really think it's going to stick its head in the sand and wait to die?

No, of course not. If you're lucky, it'll run away at 40 miles an hour, and if you're not, it's fatality time for you. Ostrages have no reason to hide, and especially not in the stupidest way ever. If they did, they would have survived about as long as another species of flightless bird. While we're talking about flightless birds, number five, baby birds. A motherbird won't abandon her baby because you've touched it any more than a human mother would abandon her baby if a bird touched it. If you find a baby bird and can easily reach its nest, it's perfectly fine to put it back. Number 4. Goldfish memory. Goldfish do have memories longer than 3 seconds or 7 seconds or whatever other made-up number always accompanies this fact. fact. They can actually be trained and will remember what they've learned for months, which is more than can be said for many humans. On an unrelated note, goldfish are also delicious. Number three, dog vision. Poor dogs, forever living in their sad, monochrome worlds? Except they don't. Dogs do see color, but not quite like us. Most humans see three primary colors, red, blue, and green. But dogs are limited

to two. They can see blues, but the rest of the color spectrum they can't tell apart. Which, they don't mind until you buy them a red toy and throw it into the green grass and act like they're stupid for not finding it. It's easy for you to see because your ancestor spent several million years foraging for red objects on a green background and so got quite good at it, unless they didn't, which in that case they died.

But canine eyes are not monkey eyes, and so to your dog, it, unless they didn't, which in that case they died.

But Canine eyes are not monkey eyes, and so to your dog, if it isn't blue, it's all the same color. So next time you're at the pet store, get Rover a blue toy. And while we're talking about vision, let's talk about bats, which, if you've ever looked at one, it should be immediately obvious that they're not blind, because they look right back at you with their eyes that they use to see things.

But they do one better by having an additional sense called echolocation that allows them

to navigate the world in complete darkness, something you can't do. So, from the bat's perspective, you're the blind one. Number one, you can boil a frog to death if you do it very slowly. This one is true, sort of. Friedrich Goetz demonstrated that a frog will remain blithely in a pot of water brought to boil if the temperature is raised slowly enough.

However, the rather salient fact that is often left out of the retelling is that Gultz cut out the frog's brains before placing them in the pot, which rather puts the frog at a disadvantage. Gultz also showed that if you don't lobotomize the frog first, then surprise, it jumps out of the pot. of the pot. It seems likely, but please don't try this at home, that removing the brain of any animal would rather hinder their instinctive self-preservation,

and also make them more gullible about common misconceptions. You know,