One day in class, a 17 year old friend of mine saw a picture of a tiger and said "OOO, look, it's Leo" (Leo is our local university's LION mascot). We thought he was joking so we laughed hysterically. Well, it turns out that when he was litle, his brother told him that tigers are the females and lions are the males of the same species. Needless to say, he still hears about it.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- I used to think a tiger was a female and a lion was a male... until I remembered Tony the Tiger.— Alysia
- I used to believe that lions married tigers. Anon
- I thought that all cats were the females, and that the dogs were the males.— opps guess not
- I used to believe that tigers were girls and lions were boys— Ruth
- I used to think that all lions were boys and tigers were girls.Anon