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I used to believe that when people were saying there was a "draft" in the house, that they were saying there's a "giraffe" in the house. I didn't realize they were talking about cold air, but instead somehow figured there was a small, but long-necked animal in our house.
dave
if you took an animal away from its mother at birth and let it live with you alone, then it would learn to speak your language instead of barking or meowing or something. i figured that no one ever did it because it would be sad for the mother...
dumbass
When I was young, my parents convinced me that sheep which lived on hills were born with their back two legs longer than the front two so they didn't fall down. The walked down the hill backwards so as not to fall down.
Robert F. Brooks
My sister used to believe that a catalogue was something that cattle drank from.
Avonmouth Wendy
I used to think that all female lions were tigers because they do not have a thick, hairy mane like the males do.
I heard the joke "how do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a duck"
I didn't know that "down" had two meanings. So, for the longest while, I thought that if someone were sitting on an elephant, that they couldn't dismount directly but had to use a two-step process. First, move from the elephant to a duck. Then get off the duck.
medina
For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!
Gisela
I used to believe that tigers were girls and lions were boys
Ruth
I used to believe that if you held guinea pigs up by their tails their eyes would drop out. I couldn't test this as I could never find their tails.
Faith
I remember when I would go to my grandfathers farm he told me that one side of the cows legs are shorter than the other... thats how cows can stand on a hill without falling off
Natalie
When my sister was little we were driving passed a farm with a bunch of cows on it. My sister pointed and ask the most important question a child can ask "What's that?" My evil mother told her they were elephants. For the longest time my sister would point out cows and say "Look effanents".
As a result (not of this but all the other stuff our evil mother did) we are both now quite twisted adults
Eric
I used to believe that dandelions roared, and butterflies had butter on their wings.
Adam
When I was young, I though animals could read your mind, so instead of talking to animals I would "think" to them. After my mom watched me watch one of our cats for just over an hour while it went about its business, she asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she said that even kitties and puppies had to hear to know what we were thinking.
Apparently, I'd been watching a nature show and they'd been talking about how some animals use scent to communicate. I interpreted that as telepathic abilities.
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Again, watching an animal show, they were talking about how the mountains in which Bighorn Sheep live would change between winter and summer. They showed a shot of two goats dying in the harsh weather and their bones in the spring and then in the summer goat kids playing on the slopes.
For months I stuck by the fact that goats would die and come back to life younger every seasonal cycle.
Kitty
I used to think that the females of any animal can decide to have babies whenever they want to. I did not realise that in order for an animal to reproduce, the female needs an injection of sperm from a male of the same species. The was a lengthy period where I knew that we need a man and a women (although I now know that a women can decide to have children without having to fall in love with a man thanks to artificial semenation, though we need men to donate their sperm prior) to have a baby, but I still thought that other animals can have babies whenever they wanted to without a male.
I thought when i was young that frogs used to eat mushrooms. :)
Mandy
I used to think that in order to get fresh milk, every grocery store had a cow or two in it's back room. It wasn't until a nice store employee took me back there one day I learned otherwise.
fred
When i was little, i was DEATHLY afraid of "draffies" (giraffes) , "boc-bocs" (chickens), and monkey woods (any forest...i always thought monkeys lived only in the woods) even though monkeys and giraffes were my favorite animals.
I slept with my mom untill i was at least 8 and one night when i was about 6 (i live by a highway so u can hear cars driving by 24/7 and my moms room is right by the driveway so u can hear if someone drives up) i must've heard somone drive up but i whispered "MOM!!!! MOM!! THERES DRAFFIES IN THE DRIVEWAY!" She tells and retells that story every Christmas.
For a family vaction one time we went to dig for diamonds and you had to walk through a path in the forest to get to the digging place. Well, i freaked out becuz "we were walking through monkey woods"!
One time during the summer we went to visit my aunt Susan in Tucson. I was about 3 at the time. My mom and i were walking past the stairs and i saw a shadow and started screm-crying saying "A BOC-BOC! A BOC-BOC!" dont ask me why i was afraid of a chicken but hey i was 3!
muah!,13
during my first week in a new school, aged 11, on my way to school on the bus one morning i noticed a cow was 'trying to climb on top of another cow).
I thought they were playing around, i didnt know the facts of life at that point.
mrsclay
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