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THE OSTRICH
DEFENSE
By Gabriel Potter, AIF®
I
recently got back from Africa. While watching Ostriches
stride across the grasslands, our guide reminded us
that the Ostrich does not actually stick its head in the
ground when threatened; that’s just a myth. Actually,
ostriches are fast enough to outrun most predators, and they
have strong clawed legs to defend themselves. It simply
makes no evolutionary sense for an animal to willfully ignore
a problem and hope it goes away. Despite this common
sense realization, the myth persists—at least for the animal
kingdom— but humanity is better than that, right?
As it turns out, humanity is not always as directly logical
as our