10 misconceptions about animals, all who believe! And how much do you swallowed a spider in the past year?

Internet shows how much we love animals. If people do not look cute cat videos - they share the facts about their favorite animals. But there is one problem - often this information is erroneous.

I decided to collect the most common myths about our little brother and to tell you the truth.

1. From quacking duck is never echo
This is one of the most common myths about animals online. I must tell you - from quacking echo happen! All the sounds in the world have an echo, and duck "quack" - is no exception. Do not trust? Check out this fact alone - take a duck, put her into the bathroom and force quack.



2. The bee dies when it stings someone
In the world there are about 20 thousand species of bees, and the bees only sting only honey again. This happens due to the fact that they have a sting in the teeth that are stuck in the skin after the bite. The bee flies away, leaving the sting with venom sac behind him, and dies in a few minutes. However, all other types of bees can sting you a lot more time!



3. Lemmings suicidal
The idea that lemmings commit suicide by throwing himself off a cliff, false. For the first time this fact appeared in a documentary film of Disney. The filmmakers have fabricated this information. They took a group of lemmings themselves throwing them off a cliff.



4. We swallow X spiders dream every year
Why X? Because all sources used by different amounts, which already puts this fact into question. Arachnophobia can sleep peacefully. I do not deny that swallowed a spider in the dream is impossible, but it is not a common phenomenon, which happens many times a year. This fact was created in the early days of the Internet, to show how much people trust everything they see online.



5. Ostriches bury their heads in the sand
What you've seen it in the movie does not make it true. Let's imagine that you're an ostrich. You're the biggest bird in the world. You weigh up to 145 kg and at the same time you run at speeds up to 70 km per hour! Most likely, you are a descendant of the dinosaurs, and you can not think of anything better to protect themselves than to hide his head in the sand, hoping the problem will go away by itself? Sorry, but that will not happen. The danger of an ostrich will fight, or just run away away.



6. Water and land tortoises
To tell the truth, it is not untruthful facts about animals, but as people get them confused, there is an opportunity to explain the details. You can understand where some turtle, just by looking at their feet. In tortoises - round paws with claws and paws at the water has a membrane.



7. Koala - a bear
Speaking about these animals is wrong - those little funny marsupials from Australia - not bears. They can, and look like teddy bears, but this bears no relation. Even people closer related to the bears than koalas!



8. Brontosaurus was a dinosaur
We all remember the childhood of these dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus, pterodactyl and, of course, brontosaurus. But actually brontosaurs never existed. Competing paleontologists trying to overtake each other, and is therefore called the same species on several occasions. And there was a brontosaurus, but in fact it was open earlier Apatosaurus.



9. Do not touch the little chicks, because my mother abandons them
If you ever find a baby bird that had fallen out of the nest - a fact you probably tangled. Do you think - should help, or better suited? Now there is an answer - the birds do not recognize their offspring by smell, so that the next time do not doubt that you need help.



10. The red color makes the bull attack
In the battle with the bulls always use a red cloth to annoy them. But, nevertheless, they do not attack the red color. You can show them pink, green, blue or any other color, and they will still attack, because they attack traffic and noise, but not the color.



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