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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

When I was a kid, I lived kinda close to this really old factory. My mom told me it used to be a candy factory a long time ago. We would go by the factory everytime we'd walk to the park. There were always a bunch of wild rabbits hopping around in the yard next to the factory, and around it. For some reason, I imagined that the factory still made candy - those big chocolate Easter bunnies...and REAL bunnies! The ones outside running around. Yes, I truly believed a factory could make real rabbits. I was about 3 or 4.

jennifer j.

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

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

iv no idea where this believe came from but as long as i can remmeber i was convinced that baboons ate through their bottoms! im 20 now and only realised this wasnt true a few months ago when i said in a (rather random) conversation about baboons in front of my entire family " i think its weird how they feed through their bums" and they couldnt stop laughing

emma

When I was about six, I was convinced that the quartz crystals I would occasionally find in gravel were actually dinosaur teeth.

lesath

i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.

marky

When I was young, about 8 or so we rescued a turtle off the side of the road. I few weeks later my mom came in the house and told him he "ran away." Obviously for some reason I believed her even though turtles are known for how slow they are. I am now 23 and my mom and I were talking about funny stories and she brought up how she ran over my turtle with the lawn mower. She thought I knew.

Danielle

I used to think that animals pooed out of their tails. The animal that confused me the most was the horse: how did such a big poo come out of all of those little hairs?

Anon

I thought a Monkey was just a baby Gorilla and when they grew up their Tails fell off!

Brainhead

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

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

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!!!

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

Heather

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

I always wondered why , if there were electric eels, why didn't everything in the ocean get shocked.

I always thought when I went to the ocean and didn't get shocked, I was just lucky.

Mike

I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for stories

Anon

When we were younger and we were travelling on the motorway, if you look into the fields in the summer you can see piles of grass that was collected when they field was harvisted or cut these were all the same shape, round and covered in a black plasticy looking material. Mum told us they were cow eggs !! haha top one

Jados

There was a pretty serious drought when I was young, in the 80's and my mom and dad used to have to go get our water from the "Water Buffalo" which is a Bulk Potable Drinking Water company. I thought they had brought in actual water buffalo, the animal and people were getting water from them, like milk from cows.

I thought this until I was in COLLEGE and got into an argument with my roommate about it because she didn't believe me, I called my mom to prove my point and was of course laughed at.

Janine

I used to believe that a ferret was the hybrid of a cat and a hamster. I thought the reason they were so rare is because it's hard to breed a cat and hamster without them attacking each other.

Anon