Strange myths about animals that many people believe. Photo

They have nothing in common with the truth.

In the animal Kingdom, you can find countless kinks.

However, the more shocking facts about the animals we learn, the more these facts are overgrown with myths, false information and exaggerations.

It’s time to dot the i that some people stopped to drool.

In this collection you will learn about the most common myths about animals and the truth that lies behind them.

Myth: Humans evolved from chimpanzees.

Chimpanzees and humans are strikingly many similarities, even a DNA match at 98.8 percent. Chimpanzees and humans do have a common relative that lived 6-8 million years ago, but since that time much has changed. In the process of evolution, there are a lot of genetic changes, evolving through many, many generations.

Modern chimps evolved into a separate branch of the great apes.

Myth: Dogs and cats see everything in black and white.

These animals eyesight is much better than many people think. And those and others see green and blue, and they have more photoreceptors than humans, so they see much better in low light.

This myth came from the fact that each animal sees colors differently, not as people.

Shades of red for cats can be green, and violet can look blue. And dogs have fewer cones (one of 2 types of photoreceptors), so scientists believe that their perception is approximately equal to 1/7 of the human.

Myth: When the ostrich is frightened, it hides its head in the sand.

Do ostriches never stick their head. When someone is scared, they either run away or fall to the ground and play dead.

Myth: Sharks can smell one drop of blood for a few kilometers.

This is a great exaggeration. If you are injured in the water, the sharks will swim at you from the other side. Sharks have really good sense of smell due to the developed area in the brain that is responsible for odors.

If they lived in the pool, you could smell a drop of blood, but the ocean is huge. In the most suitable day for them, when water flows are able to quickly “deliver” molecules of smell, sharks can smell one drop of blood for a few hundred meters, but not kilometers.

Myth: a Shark will die if it stopped swimming.

Some believe that sharks can only breathe while swimming, when their movements are pushing water over the gills.

But this concerns only some sharks, but most sharks live on the ocean floor and can not move independently in the gills to pump water rich in oxygen.

All sharks is no swim bladder, so if they cease to swim, then just go to the bottom. However, due to their body structure, quick changes in pressure do not harm the sharks.

Myth: 1 year for a dog equals 7 human years.

From the point of view of development, 1 year dog can be compared to 17 years in humans. However, you cannot just take and compare these figures, because each breed the life expectancy is different.

Myth: a healthy dog has a wet nose

A wet nose is rather an indicator of activity of the dog, not her health.

Myth: Owls are wise birds.

In fact, owls are one of the most stupid birds on Earth. Scientists have even calculated that crows are much smarter than owls.

Myth: Bees die after the sting you.

There are over 20,000 species of bees. One kind dies after sting and all the rest – no.

Myth: Cats always land on their feet.

Despite the fact that cats have the ability to bend your spine so that they can adjust to the fall, they may not always fall on their feet. It’s cats, not superheroes.

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