When I was 4, I saw a nature television show about bees. As you may know, bees do a little "dance" so that the other bees can find flowers to acquire nectar for the hive. This impressed me a great deal and I thought about it.
The next day, my mother was reading me a story about a horse, which mentioned that horses like apples. After thinking for a moment, I asked her,
"Do horses do a dance to show other horses where the apples are?"
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As a kid I remember being exposed to various books, some showing farm animals, including sheep. At one timd I got the idea that sheep were just as big as cows. Later, perhaps from never having seen any sheep that big, I went through a period of doubting the existence of sheep altogether, thinking sheep must be imaginary beasts that I had dreamed up.
when i was around 10 years old i believe that the lizard and mosquitos are somekind of hidden surveillance camera that my parents use to check out on my behaviour when they're not around.
I used to believe that Fireants were called Fireants because if they bit you, a little fire would rise up where they bit, and would not go out until you flicked the ant away.
My mom used to tell me (on long car trips out in the country) to look for the cow-pigs. They were cows with curly tails and pink spots. I would stare out the window forever looking for one (Funny how she always saw them just when I was losing interest but they would always be far off in the distance and I would have to look really carefully for more.)
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When I was around 4-5 years, I was looking out the window at our driveway, and I could have sworn that I saw a cat transform into a lion right before my eyes.
i used to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male. i thought they would mate and have a mixed litter of cats and dogs. i wasn't aware they weren't even the same animal.
I thought squirrels tails were solid (not fluff & more like beaver tails) - I guess that I got this idea from depictions in disney movies. Yeah - I finally noticed that this wasn't true a few years ago at age 17ish. (Boy do my friends get a kick out of this story)
My sister is a college student and just this past easter she and her room-mate admitted to believing that rabits lay eggs since you always see eggs and rabits on easter. We still haven't let them live that down.
When I was little, my mom told me that moths would eat my clothes. She neglected to specify, "when they're in the closet." So I thought that moths had these huge teeth and would land on me and eat right through my clothes and bite me. Then someone told me that butterflies are just pretty moths... To this day, I am terrified of both moths and butterflies.
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...
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when i was about 4 i sat on my cat thinkin it was a baby lion i belived this until i was 6 or somthin......dumb!!
I live in S.A and we have these beautiful Hoopeo birds. When i was young i had this fascination with them, i always tried to catch them and keep them as my pets, my mum obviously thought that it was a terrible idea so she told me that they excrete this distgusting oil that would make my hands stink forever, until now at the age of 16 i found out that she was talking absolute rubbish.
when visiting a school in washington as a child we were travelling on a school bus. the bus passed a field with cows in it. I asked some of the other children what they were as we did not have them in england. they all fell for it.
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I used to think all dogs were boys, and all cats were girls.........that was until my dog had puppies!!!!
when i was little someone told me that flies pooped every time they landed. of course that happened to be the summer that there were TONS of flies. if a fly even touched me, i went to go wash my hand. i was so freaked out by that. i think i was a gullible little kid
I used to believe that birds lived in their nests all the time, it came as a surprise when my mom pointed out this fallacy to me well into adulthood, "What! You mean birds just stand around in the trees all night?" Kinda creeps me out now.
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I used to think a banjo was a type of monkey!
I used to be afraid that I would get burnt by the light on lightning bugs when you go to catch them because to me they looked like flying Christmas tree lights off the string that I had been burnt with that past Christmas.
i used to belive that mice were evil and that was why elephants were scared of them but then i had a pet one and i hide from it when i went into the room so i had to get rid of it because i wouldn't go to sleep until i was sure it was a sleep therefore i was deprived of a lot of sleep