Did you realise that some of the best-known facts about some of the animals around us are simply not true? Yes, some of them are just myths or misunderstandings that developed over time to give reasons why certain behaviours were displayed or why things happened.

Right from a very young age, most of us have been told stories about different animals, and we believed them while growing up.

The animal kingdom always surprises us with fascinating events and facts that occur in them. However, most of these facts may be correct, some of them are not and only have anecdotal evidence to support them rather than any actual scientific data in the sense that you were told the story from your grandmother or friend, who knew a guy that said, who had a brother…. And so on.

There are lots of facts about animals that science has proven to be wrong, but many people still believe to be true. In the course of this article, there will be explanations concerning some of these false myths so if you are one of the people that believe in them, and I want you to ask yourself this question, are these animal facts really true? You will be able to answer that for yourself after taking a look at the explanation of these facts below.

Let me ask you this: what does burying the head in the sand do for an animal in danger? It can't save it from its predator. And for a fast animal like the ostrich, burying their head in the sand is just not an option for them.

I think people said this only because ostriches have been seen with their head to the ground and we had no idea what they were doing.

In fact, they are either eating pebbles or sand from the ground to help them digest their food. T

hey also make use of their beaks to turn their eggs, thereby bringing them closer to the ground.

When they sense danger, they usually just run for their life.

First of all, birds have a terrible sense of smell and really can't tell the difference between the human scent and that of their babies. When a human is present in their nest filled with baby birds, they tend to fly away, not because the human has touched them, so they need to abandon them, it is just the way they respond to disturbance.

Baby birds are usually found alone because they're learning to fly.

Birds can't detect human scents, and the majority of them have small and straightforward olfactory nerves that limit their sense of smell. Biologists have claimed that birds don't abandon their young in response to touch, but they will abandon both the offspring and the nest in response to disturbance.

When someone can't see what is actually in front of them, we tend to say "you are blind as a bat", this doesn't mean you are actually blind, and the same goes for bats. Bats have eyes, and they can see to some point, if they were blind they wouldn't be able to find their prey. Bats make use of both their eyesight and their "sonar" sight. They may even "see" better than any human can because they have the use of echolocation, which is a type of sonar allowing them to have a better "view" of their surroundings.

Research carried out shows that bats sometimes prefer using eyesight to sound when hunting, and many fruit bats do not make use of echolocation. Just bear in mind that they have a sharp vision.

Those famous lumps that are found on a camel are not filled with water; they are actually filled with food. The food stored in the Camel's hump is turned into fat to help sustain them through long journeys in the desert.

This hump does help them to survive when they are low on resources, but it isn't filled with water. Camels can travel for long distances without rehydrating, although they are capable of drinking up to 20 gallons at a go.

The excess water is not stored in the hump, but rather it is stored in their bloodstreams.

Daddy Long Legs are most definitely one of the strangest looking spiders the world has ever seen; that might be because they are not actually spiders at all. They are officially Opiliones, which is found in the order of the arachnids. They are also known as harvestmen.

Not only believing that they are spiders, many people think that Daddy Long Legs are extremely venomous spiders and that it is because their mouths are too small to bite and that is why we are safe from them.

The truth is Daddy Long Legs aren't actually poisonous at all, and they pose a zero threat to humans - except for the bizarre way they fly getting into our hair etc.

This is the fact I probably heard the most, even saw it in cartoons and movies displaying this character but it actually doesn't do that.

In reality, they actually change colours according to their mood and the temperature of their surroundings.

For instance, if a chameleon is feeling cold, he might choose a dark colour so that he can absorb more heat from the sun because dark coloured things take in more heat than light coloured things.

No matter what you do or how fearless you are, you will do yourself well by staying away from winged stingers. Bumblebees and yellow jacket wasps are equipped mostly with smooth stingers and can attack multiple times.

If you find a European hornet buzzing around you, get away from them, they are large enough to bite with their jaws and will not bother to sting you. Research has proven that only the honey bee is capable of a single sting.

Earthworms have two distinct ends, namely; a head and a tail. The head is located at the end closer to its thick band, and the head is capable of growing a new tail if it's being cut off from any region below that band. The tail tends to wiggle for a little while after it has been cut but does not have the ability to grow a new head to form a new worm.

There is only one exception, and it is in the planarian flatworm, which can regenerate its entire body even from a small piece of its original size.

So there you have it some of those facts you have known all your life have been busted - fill up your factometer by checking out another random post. Don't forget to follow us on your prefered social media platform.

Do you know any facts about animals that aren't true? Let me know in the comments section.