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[I thought ostriches would just bury their heads when in danger, but I didn’t expect them to be so fierce, even though they were dead (dog head)]

"This is actually a rumor."

Bi Fang shook his head.

"Many people think that when an ostrich is frightened, it will bury its head in the sand to escape danger. This also leads to the saying 'ostrich policy', but this is actually incorrect."

"The ostrich as a symbol of stupidity has been recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible: 'Are the wings of the ostrich spread joyfully, are they the feathers and feathers of love?... Because God has made it without wisdom, and has not given it understanding.

Grant it. Whenever it stands up and spreads its wings, it laughs at the horse and its rider.'"

"However, the first person to write down this rumor and clearly describe the behavior of ostriches was the Roman thinker Pliny the Elder, who lived between 23 and 79 AD."

"Pliny was writing in his natural history that ostriches thought that when they thrust their heads and necks into the bushes, they were hiding their bodies as well."

"Although it's similar, it's quite different from burying one's head in the sand. I don't know how it turned out to be an ostrich burying its head in the sand."

"But this is completely impossible. Most birds have nostrils at the base of their beaks. Birds like kiwis, which can only rely on smell to find food, have to dig into the mud to find food.

After that, you have to spray your nostrils vigorously to remove the debris that hinders breathing."

"If you bury your head, the ostrich will just suffocate to death."

"As for why this rumor occurs, it is probably because the ostrich's head is very small compared to its body, so as long as the ostrich's head is close to the ground, it may be mistaken for the head being buried in the sand. It is easy for people to misunderstand.

"

In fact, if it encounters an enemy, the first thing an ostrich does is to run.

Although the ostrich belongs to the class Birds, it no longer has the ability to fly at all.

The bones of birds are thin and light, and the long bones are filled with air. All bone fragments of the skull are completely healed, the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, the sacral vertebrae and the tail vertebrae are all healed together, and the sacral vertebrae and the left and right belts are also healed together.

There are hook-like protrusions on the ribs, which hook together to form a strong rib cage.

Flying birds also have a triangular keel protrusion on the sternum to increase the attachment area for the breast muscles and vibrating wing muscles.

These unique structures of bird bones reduce weight and enhance the ability to support flight.

But this is obviously not the case with ostriches.

As the largest modern bird in the world, the male ostrich is generally more than 2 meters tall and weighs about 150 pounds, but its feathers are all soft.

Ostrich wings have been specialized, and there are no hooks between the filaments of the feathers to form a complete piece of feathers capable of flying, so they can only stay on land.

If you don't observe carefully, you might even mistake it for having no wings.

In addition, it has only a flat sternum and underdeveloped chest muscles. However, although it cannot be used to fly, their feathers still have basic functions of keeping warm and dissipating heat, and can also help change the direction of travel when running.

Bi Fang squatted on the ground.

At this time, the ostrich was completely motionless. He poked it with a tree stick, but there was no response.

Completely dead.

This also made Bi Fang feel relieved to reach out and touch the dead ostrich.

"Many wrong conclusions are caused by insufficient observation, and ostriches are no exception."

"They have been misunderstood for more than two thousand years. Even if more and more people know the truth, they cannot resist the widespread circulation of the saying 'as stupid as an ostrich'."

"However, I have said so much, maybe one day these common sayings will become 'as strong as an ostrich'."

Bi Fang smiled, paused, and then added

"If there were still ostriches back then."
Chapter completed!