ADVANCE AUSTRALIAN OSTRICHES
Dr Karl says: The myth that an ostrich will stick its head in the sand, in an effort to hide, may have begun with that great Roman thinker, Pliny the Elder (23-79AD). His real name was Gaius Plinius Secundus. Pliny was a man of intense curiosity about the world around him. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote about him, “He began to work long before daybreak. He read nothing without making extracts; he used even to say that there was no book so bad as not to contain something of value. In the country it was only the time when he was actually in his bath that was exempted from study. When travelling, as though freed from every other care, he devoted himself to study alone. In short, he deemed all time wasted that was not employed in study.” https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/11/02/1777947.htm 'If I can't see the approaching lion, it follows that he won't be able to see me. Worth a try, surely.' I wonder how many ostriches had to learn the folly of that; the