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I thought the Vietnamese must really care about their animals as on TV they mentioned Vietnam Vets so often and with such respect.

Silverfin

ok not me but I caught my 5 year old nephew talking to 2 frogs he'd spotted in the garden the other day. He was babbling away and I asked him what he was doing, he introduced me to fred and bob (who funnily enough were mating at the time!). I asked him if he wanted a sandwich and he replied yes and bob wants a bag of crisps and fred wants a bar of chocolate! I thought it was sweet I didn't even mind him scamming extra food off me!

Jenna Horral

When I was small we lived in the country just outside Didcot. Every day the factory nearby would sound a horn to signal the end of the days work. I was outside playing in the mud when the siren went of and I was convinced it was Elephants making the noise, and they were coming to get me. I was so scared so i tried to run back to the house but it was muddy so my boots got stuck and I couldnt go fast enough. I spent the rest of the day traumatised wondering when the elephants would arrive.

Billy Baghead

I used to believe that a piece of flint was a fossilised penguin carcass! The outer, white- coloured part was the feathers and the dark, inner bit was the blood and internal organs. I don't know what made me think that, but I must have been really stupid/gullable (or both...).

Colin Field

When I was about 3, my family used to go camping every year by a lake. Now, since I was in the water from straight after breakfast until dinner time, my skin would get really dry and so my mum would have to put aloe vera gel all over my body. I hated having it put on and used to scream and kick. The tantrum problem was solved when my mum said that if I didn't have the aloe vera gel on, the bears would come and eat me... I believed her... Now, considering we live in Australia and the closest thing we'll get to a wild bear is a koala, i now think it to be really stupid!

Beary Frightened

i useed to belive that if i speaked
french animals would under stand me.

gandalf

When i was small ( young :P ) i belief that cow and horse are a pair. You know cow is a women and horse is a men. :]

Gruby_Jakub

When I was told about evolution my mother simply said "we used to be monkeys,"
So I thought that at one point in my life I was literally a monkey only I couldn't remember. This was dispite the fact that I had seen numerous photos of myself as a young human.
I knew logically it couldn't make sense but relied on it based on the fact it was my mother who told me.

Jack Diddly Squat

I used to think Llamas were just camels with no humps, and the zoo would keep them seperated because the Llamas were jealous and would have gotten angry at the camels because they had no humps.
And I still believe in drop bears and can't walk past a tree without looking up.

Bernie

My first pet was a goldfish. I was so proud of my goldfish and would take it out of the water to show it to my little friends. Also, I thought it would want to play with me. I think it died after a week.

Hannah

My dad told me that sheep and cows that stood on hills,were a special breed that had legs shorter on one side, so they wouldn't topple over.

Dan C

My parents used to tell me that cows on hills had shorter legs on one side so that they could stand up straight. Cows born on the opposite side of the hill would have shorter legs on the other side of their body. I remember thinking that the cows on one side of the hill could just walk around to the other side, but then they would be facing the wrong way and you could tell they really belonged on the other side.

Barbara

after eating a plate of Calamari, My big brother told me that they were going to grow in my stomach and I cried and ran to bathroom and spent a few days attempting to look down my throat to see the growing octopi.

bouncinshoes

I used to think that if you put dried starfish in water they would come back to life.
that concept scared me ... a lot.

bouncinshoes

This isn't mine, but my friends instead. When she was little and travelling in the car with her parents in the country she spotted some cows. She got excited and pointed and said "Daddy! Lookie, cows!" and her dad replied, "No sweetie, those are chickens." And for a while she thought that cows were chicken and always called them that. XD

Sarah

I used to believe wasps made jam, like bees make honey. This was partly due to a book called "the giant jam sandwich" in which a town is plagued by wasps and traps them in the sandwich.

Anon

I always thought that a turtle's shell was hard and able to protect them from any harm's way. It was not until my last year of highschool (yes, that late) that my classmates decided to enlighten me with the truth - a turtle's shell won't protect them from being ran over by a car. My naiveness has since been shattered beyond repair.

Ada

When I was young the first time I went to the zoo and saw a rhinoceros I thought that it was a type of dinosaur, (the zoo actually had the name spelled Rhinosaurus) so all day I ran around telling people that dinosaurs weren't extinct!

Portia