Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Ostriches True Or False?

Bury your head in the sand

Meaning

Refuse to confront or acknowledge a problem.

This comes from the supposed habit of ostriches hiding when faced with attack by predators. The story was first recorded by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who suggested that ostriches hide their heads in bushes. Ostriches don't hide, either in bushes or sand, although they do sometimes lie on the ground to make themselves inconspicuous. The 'burying their head in the sand' myth is likely to have originated from people observing them lowering their heads when feeding.
The story also relies on the supposed stupidity of ostriches, and of birds in general. In fact, there's little to support that either as birds have a significantly larger brain to weight ratio than many other species of animal. The notion is that the supposedly dumb ostrich believes that if it can't see its attacker then the attacker can't see it.


So, it is not true. Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand to hide.
I pray we don't bury our head in the sand instead of looking at Jesus?

12 comments:

Donna said...

Ezra I always thought ostriches did hide their heads in the sand and I thought that was very odd and I did not think it would help protect them very much from danger.

It just goes to show you that we can learn something new every day no matter how old we get, right.

I am glad we are choosing to keep our eyes on Jesus Ezra because He keeps us more safe than anything else in the entire universe.

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