My grandma always told us that if the window wasn't closed all the way, there'd be a draft in the house. Not knowing what a draft was, I thought she meant that there'd be a "giraffe" in the house. I don't know how many days I cracked the windows hoping I'd have a new pet when I got home from school.

chris

Seems like my first acquaintances with the word "rodent" were heavily associated with animals being identified as "rodents" either when they were seen crossing a road, or when they were seen as road kill. So I thought they were called rodents because they were animals likely to be seen in the road.

Bobby boy

I used to think that sharks were dolphins who were really mean on steroids and ridiculous stuff like that.

Tyler Leber

When i was 5 years old, my brother convinced me that monkeys lived in water tanks. And i always went looking in peoples water tanks to find the monkeys. I soon realised that he was lying.

chan

When I was little my mom told me that little animals used to live in the shells we found on the beach. I wanted one of those miniature giraffes and elephants so bad!

Erica

My sister and I used to believe that when our hampsters stopped moving for no reason, that they were "communicating" telepathicly with eachother.

Anon

I used to think that orangutans were pronounced orange-oo-tins, not o-rang-uh-tangs. I'm embarrassed to say, I was in my 20's, had just taken my kids to the zoo and was telling my niece (using my scholarly attitude) that my favorite was the orange-oo-tins. Never live that one down!

Jamie Leigh

When i was little, i used to believe that animals weren't killed to make fur coats. That the animals were just running around naked having either been shaved or gave it up, you know like in the cartoons. That was until my brother decide to tell me otherwise and show me proof.

Anon

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

Always thought until I was 6 that you milked a cow by pumping it's tail up and down. Saw a toy one and that's how it worked.Still remember how hurt I felt by laughter when I mentioned this first time I saw a cow being milked. That was 48 years ago

Liz

i used to believe that cows were just grown up sheep! This was due to my mother saying "You'll be old as cows before you realise."!

Charlotte geande

I used to believe that monkeys were related to fish as they both have mouths!

Quako

when i was about 4 years old i saw cows mating and announced, "look! that cow is giving the other cow a piggy-back ride." my uncle calmly said, "no, those cows are playing leap-frog."

pamela galindo

I used to believe that fish fingers (fish sticks) actually swam in the sea. When I was 5 at school we had to paint a picture of creatures under the sea and I painted fish fingers. My teacher held up my painting and embarrassed me in f4ront of my whole class. She thought I did it on purpose but I must have actually believed they swam in the sea!

Jane

once, when i was like 4, we had a little family gathering at a farm. this cow started peeing, and i yelled, in front of my enitre family, "look mom, the cow is milking itself!" man, i was dumb, and still get made fun of 12 years later!!! urgh...

Chrystal!!!

When I was about nine, I saw a TV soap with a man talking about a Haggis on it (I'm British). I asked my mum what a Haggis was and she said it was a small furry creature with three eyes and six feet that lived in Scotland. When I went on holiday to Scotland later in the year, I came back crying because I had seen a sign in a butcher's shop that said "Fresh Haggis Sold Here; The Most Delicious In The UK!".

Hannah

A few years ago when my cousin was very young, my uncle read her a bedtime story and the book featured barnyard animals. I heard him say to her "look Katie, that's a cow. Cows make milk. Cows in Alaska make ice cream!" She is 13 now, and she still believes that ice cream comes from cows in Alaska.

Amy

me and sister used to think milk was cow urine. one day my grandpa was milking a cow (he lives on a farm) and we smacked his hand and said, " Granpa! How would you like it if someone touched you there!"

Gina and Alyssa

When I was young I was told by my mom that if you blew up a horses nose, it would make friends with it.

When I was a teenager, I tried it. The horse sneezed all over me. I was NOT impressed.

Anon

I used to think that if you hit a cow with your car, milk (and only milk) would fly all over the place!

Heather