There’s a tale as old as time that whenever an ostrich gets scared, they bury their head in the sand. It’s probably one of the more widely known bits of animal trivia out there, so it only stands to reason that it’d be absolutely correct, right? Well, it turns out that that’s not the case at all. Somehow that also makes everything right in the world because you’d expect the biggest and heaviest flightless bird on the planet to do something more impactful than just shove its tiny head into the ground whenever danger approaches. Then again, since there’s only two living species of ostrich remaining (one native to sub-Saharan Africa and one native to the Horn of Africa), the idea of them not having the best defensive strategies doesn’t seem that weird.
