animals

When I was 4, I asked asked "Dad, why do pelicans have blue feet?"

He answered "Because the water is cold."

I was well into University before I realised I'd been had.

i used to think that white dog pooh that you used to see a lot was what little white scottie dogs did

I always believed there were boy cows and girl cows and boy bulls and girl bulls

Like many people here, I thought that dogs were male and cats were female of the same species. I was three or four then... Now I'm thirty and recently I realised that I was right ;)

I thought dogs were boys and cats were girls.

I was told by my mother, when I was a kid, that we'd turn into a cow if we lay down immediately after supper.... I tried it a couple of times, and guess what? I'm still a human!

I really loved horses when I was little and was convinced that deers were special types of horses that lived in the forest. I called them "forest horses" until I was about 10 years old.

i used to think that you could change the colour of a fish. i was in a pet store with dad one day and i was choosing a fish for my tank. my dad pointed to one and said "how bout that one" to which i said "nah, that ones been dyed, i can tell". i thought people had special dye for fishes to change them to nicer colours when people werent buying them.

when i was little and visiting my grandma in the highlands of scotland my mum told me that sheep were able to stay on the steep hills and not slip because one front leg and one back leg were longer then the other two..was only a couple of years ago i actually thought about it and realised id been dubed..im 21 amazing what you dont question

This has to be a totally southern thing but my mother always called praying mantises 'Devil's Horses' and said that if they spat in your eye, it would put your eye out. I wonder why, as a kid, I disliked insects in general?

When I was little I watched the original Dr. Dolittle movie and never seeing a llama in person before, I believed that they actually had two heads up untill I was in college when I was told otherwise....oops!

I used to think that sowbugs would eat large holes in your skin, so whenever I saw them I would instantly kill them and all other sowbugs in the vicinity. I would also check the area around my bed regularly. It got so bad that I was even scared to eat certain foods, for fear that a sowbug may be hiding in the middle.

When I was very young I honestly believed that lions came from flower buds, and If I was able to open one and find a lion, I would get a wish. However many flower buds I found, the meticulous peeling away of the layers was always in vain. I have no idea where the idea came from.

when i was 6-7, i used to believe that if i do something bad, the crows will tell it to my parents!!

when I was young, my father used to ask me how it was possible for cows to eat green grass and produce white milk. I never was able to figure it out then. I have asked the same question to my young children and now my young grandchildren. No one has the answer!

My mom told me once, when I was about 6, that I came out of my room yelling "There's a black weirdo in my room!" and she ran in there thinking there was someone dressed in black really in my room (like a robber). She went into my room and didn't see anything. She asked for me to show her what I was talking about and I pointed out a black spider. I thought it was a black weirdo....not a black WIDOW!!