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Ostrich Head Hiding
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One of the most prevalent Animal Stereotypes is the ostrich burying its head underneath the sand whenever it is frightened. The implied message being that the bird so dumb that it has No Object Permanence problems. In other works he may be doing this while sleeping. In reality, ostriches don't put their head underneath the sand. Such a scenario would leave them sitting duck for predators not to mention risking suffocation. Just like any other animal, they will run away whenever they assume danger. Logical too, seeing that they have long, strong legs that can run over 40 miles per hour, making it extremely difficult for predators to catch them (and if they are caught those same legs can deliver deadly kicks). When they sleep they just sit down on the ground like other birds do. The head burying in the sand image is likely a perception derived from humans watching the birds from a distance and seeing them reach their long necks down to the ground to search for food or to manage their nests. Nevertheless this Urban Legend keeps popping up in comic strips and cartoons and has even become a metaphor for people too frightened to do something about an important problem or in deep denial about it. Instead of taking action they prefer sticking their heads under the ground and wait until the problem goes away by itself. Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Ornithology. See also Head-in-the-Sand Management and Safe Under Blankets. |
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The Far Side: One strip has an ostrich doing this, with a lion crouched next to him and peering down the head-hole. "I seeeeee you!" | |
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In the Kaufman and Hart play Merrily We Roll Along, the grotesquely old-fashioned Mrs. Riley complains about the title of a play her daughter is starring in (in 1923, a time when, perhaps not coincidentally, fashionable women wore ostrich feathers), and her son-in-law tries to explain its significance: | |
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Foghorn Leghorn: In "Mother Was a Rooster", Foghorn adopts a baby ostrich, who hides his head in the sand whenever Barnyard Dawg called him an "ugly chicken." When Foghorn and Dawg get their heads stuck in the ground in he end, the ostrich says "They left me all alone. Where did everybody go?" | |
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House of Mouse: In "Donald's Pumbaa Prank", an ostrich ballerina hides her head in a cake when Pumbaa is about to make a gigantic fart. | |
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The Dick Tracy Show: In "Horse Race Chase," this is how Go-Go Gomez exposes the Brow and Oodles' plan to win a horse race by using an ostrich disguised as a horse. He frightens the ostrich which screeches to a stop (sending jockey Oodles flying off of it) and buries its head in the ground. | |
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In Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, Scooby and Shaggy do this to evade the wrath of an emu. | |
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks. During the soccer match the ostrich buries its head underneath the sand, but is kicked against his behind soon afterwards, causing him to tumble forwards and fall on its behind. | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: In "The Hungry Ostrich Empire", Jack brings an ostrich to Oggy's house for him to petsit. It sticks its head into the floorboards whenever someone tries to hurt it. | |
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Kaeloo: In Episode 70, this is done by Quack Quack the duck (even though he's not an ostrich). Somehow, it works perfectly well and nobody can find him. | |
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Spike does this in The Land Before Time when Littlefoot and Cera are fighting, and when the Gang sans Cera comes across Sharptooth for the last time. | |
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Boes, a Dutch comic strip on which Ox Tales is based: Ostriches hiding their head in the sand are a frequent gag. | |
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Dumbo. During the Baby Be Mine segment the camera shows a shot of the circus animals taking a rest at night, including a mother (or father?) ostrich and her two baby birds, sticking their heads underneath the sand. | |
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Done by another bird in an U.S. Acres episode, namely the cowardly Wade Duck. | |
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My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Golden Horseshoes, Part 1", when the ostrich-like Skree at scared by something, they respond by hiding their heads in the soil. This is more effective than most examples, however, as doing so also turns the Skree into visually unremarkable rocks. | |
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Spoofed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which it is discussed that a good way to escape from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal is to wrap your towel around your head, since the Beast is "such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you." | |
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In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a mother Gastornis hides her head in the ground as she gets startled by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Her chick attempts to do the same, but the ground is too hard, so the chick knocks itself out. | |
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Silly Symphonies: In The China Shop, an ostrich figurine sticks its head into the base it is standing on when the Satyr starts throwing dishes. Its exposed legs and neck are promptly sliced through by a plate and it reassembles into a shorter bird. | |
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Conkdors from Super Mario 3D World are ostrich-like enemies who attack by slamming their faces into the ground. | |
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The Brawl in the Family strip Kirby's Comic has Kirby show King Dedede a comic he made about this. | |
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Penguins of Madagascar: One episode has an ostrich that gets her head stuck in quick-drying cement, alluding the "ostrich with its head in the ground" pose. This gets lampshaded by the characters, who point out how wrong this trope is. | |
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Bumblebee. Bumblebee does this on the beach, thinking it would hide him if other people are around. Yes, he honestly forgot to transform into vehicle mode. | |
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Stanley: In "Honest Ostrich", Stanley feels he let Marci down when he can't find a soccer ball she let him borrow for a big game, and he wishes that he could hide his head in the sand like an ostrich and forget the whole day. Dennis points out to him that Ostriches don't really hide their heads in the sand, and after finding out the truth in the Great Big Book of Everything, he finds out that Ostriches really duck their heads in the grass to avoid being spotted by predators. So they tell the kids that one myth is not true, and replace it with a variant on the myth instead? Ostriches don't hide their heads in the grass either to hide from predators. As the description says, they run. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Parodied in an episode where, during a game of hide-and-seek, Rolf does this at an attempt to pick a good hiding spot. | |
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The first boss of Ballz is Guggler, an ostrich who sticks his head in the ground to heal when you're far enough away. | |
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South Park. In Cartoon Wars the citizens are so frightened of Family Guy showing The Prophet Muhammad and the reactions this will create in the Muslim world that they decide to use the ostrich tactic by burying their heads underneath the sand. | |
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The ostrich in Animal Jam Play Wild will do this if the play button is pressed. | |
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A 1930s Mickey Mouse comic strip had Mickey join a race to win money. As everybody was allowed to bring their own manner of transport Mickey used his pet ostrich to ride on. During the race the animal suddenly gets scared and sticks its head under the ground, so Mickey has think up a way to make the animal stop doing this. | |
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Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A has a song named "If It Ain't Ruff" where they make use of this stereotype. | |
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Mike, Lu & Og: Invoked in a "back to the show" ad bumper; Wendell spooks an ostrich so it can bury its head in the sand, allowing him to pluck its plumage to use as Fluffy Fashion Feathers. | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk: Barf & Belch bury their heads in the beach when they get spooked by a thunderstorm. In the absence of the twins, Snotlout is the one who has to try and get them out. When pulling doesn't work, he digs his way in to confront them directly. They respond with Belch igniting Barf's flammable gas, launching Snotlout right out of their hole. | |
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The Lion Guard: Deconstructed. In "Bunga The Wise," Bunga tells an ostrich who's scared of hyenas to hide her head in the ground to avoid seeing them. When the rest of the Lion Guard see her doing this, they point out that ostriches don't actually do such a thing. After they help the ostrich to pull her stuck head out, she complains about how hard it is to breathe down there. | |
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Channel Umptee-3: Orson the ostrich lived his life with his head in the ground like the other ostriches. When he took it out and looked around, he saw that The World Is Just Awesome and decided to share it with everyone through a TV show. | |
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