If you grew up watching classic Disney movies or Warner Bros. cartoons from the Golden Age, you've no doubt encountered "facts" about the animal kingdom that are totally wrong. Some of these myths were continuations of misguided common knowledge from an earlier era, while others were supposed to apply to just one character. But children don't know that Bugs Bunny's carrot-chomping habit was a family-friendly substitute for Groucho Marx's ubiquitous cigar. And some things we learned about animals were just made up of whole cloth to make an interesting story.
See 18 pictofacts containing totally wrong information about animals from TV and movies at Cracked.
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Technically, the Galápagos penguin range just barely enters the northern hemisphere. I didn't know that lions prides were that egalitarian.
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My rabbits were never interested in carrots, but they went crazy over bananas and cilantro.
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