Remember all those cools facts you learned about animals when you were 10? Totally false. For example, you've heard that lemmings commit mass suicide.
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This rumor was probably started in the early 19th Century. Scientists would see sudden bursts of the lemming population that would just as suddenly shrink, and they couldn't figure out why. In 1908 a man named Arthur Mee decided that "mass suicide" seemed as good an answer as any and published it in his The Children's Encyclopedia.
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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by lifeinrealtime.
- The chameleon claim is wrong. They do change color according to their environment (I've seen it several times in real life). That doesn't necessarily mean, that they don't communicate emotion in that way as well.
- Second: The picture shows an emu not an ostrich.
- Third: The bumblebee-picture actually shows bees, which are even harder to confuse that emus an ostriches.
We had better get used to it. Looks like there is more to come. I was a bit surprised as well. Neatorama does not have to go this route.
Cracked's articles are seldom well-researched. Even when large and obvious mistakes are pointed out by many commenters, they will actually defend the mistakes, no matter how glaring, as "license" or as unintentionally humourous.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=es&source=hp&q=ostrich&btnG=Buscar+im%C3%A1genes&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=
In fact there are a bunch of other animals who do change their color to blend in with their environment like certain species of octopus.
While everything else on their list seems to check out, I am surprised that cracked.com didn't even bother to do the most basic of research on their number one pick.
@baro:
I think that picture is from the movie "Dude Where's my Car?".