Animal "facts"

[Embra]

The following "amazing facts" appeared 64 Zoo Lane when I watched it last night (next up, urban legends in In the Night Garden...):

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no-one knows why (the very words - I don't know why it is so crucial to this myth that "no one knows why"!).

A crocodile's mouth is so big it can't stick its tongue out.

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Evidently it's an old episode because a quick google found it quoted in this 2003 Times article about the duck phenomenon.

[catty5nutz]

Whoever said that ducks quacks don't echo, has obviously never been by a river or a lake. Ducks do echo - and quite well.

[effo5231]

Originally Posted by Embra

The following "amazing facts" appeared 64 Zoo Lane when I watched it last night (next up, urban legends in In the Night Garden...):

Let's use Google and common sense to check these out.

Originally Posted by Embra

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no-one knows why (the very words - I don't know why it is so crucial to this myth that "no one knows why"!).

Hmmm.... Yes they will. And we know why.

Originally Posted by Embra

A crocodile's mouth is so big it can't stick its tongue out.

Crocodilians have a fleshy tongue that is attached along its length between the lower jaws. Hard to stick out something that's attached to the inside of your jaw... no matter how big your mouth is.

Originally Posted by Embra

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Headlines read "Blind Squirrel Finds Acorn" Apparently this one is true.

Wow... in ten minutes I can do the work of a whole TV production.

[Tarquin Farquart]

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no-one knows why

I know why... because it doesn't!