"Its the most venomous spider in the world, but its mouth is too small to bite humans."
Who started this moronic rumour and why do people still repeat it?
~ Also, give me your wive's tales about animals
"Its the most venomous spider in the world, but its mouth is too small to bite humans."
People like underdogs, thats it.
>Cats run away to die.
Uncertain if true; great grandmother said the cat ran away to die, but it was hit by a car.
Cat in pic rel is not dead cat
>Uncertain if true
Kinda. Like most small animals, when they're badly injured cats generally find a hole to crawl into. Sometimes they never come out again.
I had an elderly cat who started hiding under stuff the night she died in a way that wasn't normal for her usual behavior.
>Flies only land to shit.
>Flies are afraid of hanging milk jugs full of water.
>A skinks blue tail is poisonous (in some parts people call them scorpions).
>Dragonflies will sow your lips together if they find you asleep near a pond.
>Snapping turtles only let go if they hear thunder.
>[random species of bird] only sings if it's going to rain.
>Ants will swell up and die if they eat dry grain.
Heard every one of these growing up and all of them, even the dragonfly one, were held to be the absolute gospel truth
These are crazy, where are you from?
Ive never heard the dragonfly thing. I find it impressive that anyone could believe that.
>Who started this moronic rumour
I did because I thought it'd be funny.
It was just a dumb meme spread around by children.
>"Hey you see that arachnid known for being completely harmless that everyone handles? Well it's actually the most poisonous isn't that crazy!?"
Muh heckin high testosterone level!
I heard these are immune to cancer and a lot of other diseases. How true is that?
(OP)
>Also, give me your wive's tales about animals
Opossums are egg laying mammals. Barely anybody knows this because they don't build nests or burrows and instead incubate them inside their pouch.
>How true is that?
It's fairly true.
There's a more complex chemical-biological explanation, but the tldr; Sharks internal uniformity makes them extremely resistant to cancer. Sharks have cartilage instead of bones and their scales are made out of the same material as their teeth, these cost-saving measure make Sharks 'construction' exceptionally streamlined and thus more difficult for their cells to frick up or otherwise make mistakes.
My mum kept budgies and she told me that crows/blackbirds kill budgies because they're jealous of their colourful feathers
"Red touches yellow, your're a dead fellow. Red touches black, you're okay jack."
Coral snakes can have both coloration, and very rarely are their bites deadly. I believe there has only been two deaths from confirmed coral snake bites in 100 years. That said, if you get bit, go to the doctors.
How about "if it's a brightly coloured snake don't fricking touch it, jake."
Their venom is actually VERY deadly but they're shy, small, and can unironically struggle to successfully bite humans. People get bit by things like copperheads and rattle snakes because they like to hang out right where humans like to walk and work and will often stand their ground even as someone is about to unwittingly step on them.
Sounds like the daddy long legs saying has just been incorrectly applied
>don't pick up a baby bird that's fallen out of the nest, because the parents will smell you on it and no longer recognize it as theirs
Birds barely have a sense of smell at all, complete nonsense. They'll raise birds that lay eggs in other species' nests even if it looks nothing like them and is twice their size
Still shouldn’t usually pick them up
>Who started this moronic rumour
People pranking children.
>and why do people still repeat it?
Because the results can be hilarious.
Someone mustve saw one eat a blackwidow, thought that if it can kill a black widow it must be even more venomous, but since I dont die from it, it just cant bite me.
Mine was that the skin was too thick for their bites to fully penetrate so you were safe. But my child mind translated it to:
>THEY WILL BITE YOUR GRAZES OR CUTS AND YOU WILL FRICKING DIE
The "goldfish have a seconds-long memory" thing ever catching on is utterly bizarre when after only like a week a goldfish will recognize that a person walking past means it's time for food and cause it to swim up to the glass
>a week
Most people don’t realize goldfish can even live longer than a month or so. I’ve been told multiple times that the only reason my goldfish is over a decade old is because it isn’t really a goldfish, or I’m just mistaken and it has been secretly replaced by its babies, or “it must be part koi”. I think the memory thing was brought on as just a way to explain parents constantly replacing their small child’s dead fish.
>snake sizing up owner and refusing food in order to make room for them
Who comes up with this shit, seriously
sizing up owner
I almost want to say this is a meme, but I know there are people dumb enough to actually believe this shit.
Unless it’s a fricking boa or anaconda how would that even work lol
Not joking a girl at my high school used to tell that story how a friend of hers in college had a decent-sized python that she'd sleep in bed with that eventually stopped eating and started stretching out next to her.
>why do people still repeat it?
i've head this as well lmao
They were talking about these, the superior daddy longlegs.
Das a harvestman
Cellar spiders, harvestman and mosquito hawks are all often referred to as daddy longlegs.
These things have surprisingly potent scent glands. I accidentally half squashed one once and while it was squirming around I could smell it.
these things fricking eradicate aphids
if you ever have an aphid infestation, frick ladybugs, just check behind all your closets for a harvestman and he'll genocide the little frickers within a week
neither of these are even spiders
The OP pic is Pholcus Phalangioides. Its a super common spider.
50% correct is still correct
wives tales like this were just the old version of "my uncle works at nintendo"
just a plausible lie that the people you're telling it to couldn't possibly verify
>"my uncle works at nintendo"
>old version of a wife's tale
if this was bait, well done
Bro can't you read
Perfectly worded and not bait unless youre just oblivious
I think it probably started as a sort of "more then meets the eye" kind of thing, like there's this really creepy animal but nobody actually dies to them, so it's because of X seemingly plausible reason.
>Who started this moronic rumour
you
>and why do people still repeat it?
in your dreams
No he's right. I heard that growing up too. Maybe you're just moronic anon idunno.
I heard it as a kid, but it was for crane flies
Ostriches burying their heads in the sand, like what? That's so dumb, why would they do that?
>i dont know what the frick that is and i dont want my kid touching it
i guess
my favorite is the snakes unhinging their jaw thing due to them just not doing that
How they open so wide then?
I see
thx for the diagram
They asked you're mum for tips