A THEORY EXPLODED
TRUTH ABOUT THE OSTRICH. Only last week (writes G.P.K., in the Daily Express, London), I heard a schoolmaster explaining “ostrich-like policy” to his boys in the following terms: — “This refers to habit of the ostrich of burying its head in the sand when danger threatens, this stupid bird believing that what it cannot see cannot harm it.” How long is this fallacy to endure? The story was first told 120 years ago by a traveller, who saw an ostrich digging into the sand with its beak. The female ostrich does so to this day. It is part of the wonderful instinct of the bird, for this object is to make a shallow trench in which to deposit her eggs. She then covers them with a protective layer of sand and leaves them to be hatched by the sun.
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Southland Times, Issue 19757, 3 February 1923, Page 8
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141A THEORY EXPLODED Southland Times, Issue 19757, 3 February 1923, Page 8
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