Everyday Nature: How I Came To Love House Centipedes. Centipede by Flickr user Rob Swatski via a Creative Commons Sharealike license. Smart nature straight to your inbox every week. Iâve been called a lot of strange things in my life, but I never thought I could be called a nematode-lover.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In behavioral finance, the ostrich effect is the attempt made by investors to avoid negative financial information. The name comes from the common (but false) legend that ostriches bury their heads in the sand to avoid danger.
This reduces the effort needed to run at high speeds and explains why ostriches are able to run at up to 45mph for long periods of time. Ostriches are able to hit high speeds and sustain them for long periods because of their energy stored in their tendons.