There were 19th century reports of the existence of small Ostriches in North Africa ; these are referred to as Levaillant's Ostrich ( Struthio bidactylus ) but remain a hypothetical form not supported by material evidence.

This star, along with η Cet ( Deneb Algenubi ), θ Cet ( Thanih Al Naamat ), ζ Cet ( Baten Kaitos ), and υ Cet, were Al Naʽāmāt ( ألنعامة ), the Hen Ostriches.

Ostriches were once farmed for their decorative feathers.

** γ Sgr, δ Sgr and η Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

** γ Sgr, ε Sgr and η Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, σ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

* This star, together with γ Sgr, δ Sgr and ε Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** σ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and σ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

* These three χ star, together with φ Sgr, σ Sgr, ζ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

Apart from this enigmatic bird, the fossil record of the Ostriches continues with several species of the modern genus Struthio which are known from the Early Miocene onwards.

In China, Ostriches are known to have become extinct only around or even after the end of the last ice age ; images of Ostriches have been found there on prehistoric pottery and petroglyphs.

Unlike the widely known flightless Palaeognathae, Ratites such as Ostriches and Emus, Tinamous can fly, although in general they are not strong fliers.

Ostriches share the order Struthioniformes with the kiwis, emus, rheas, and cassowaries.

The diet of Ostriches mainly consists of plant matter, though it also eats invertebrates.

Ostriches usually weigh from, Ostriches of the East African race ( S. c. massaicus ) averaged in males and in females, while the nominate subspecies was found to average in unsexed adults.

Exceptional male Ostriches ( in the nominate subspecies ) have been weighing up to.

At sexual maturity ( two to four years ), male Ostriches can be from in height, while female Ostriches range from tall.

At one year of age, Ostriches weigh around.

The head and neck of both male and female Ostriches is nearly bare, with a thin layer of down.

Ostriches can run at a speed over and can cover in a single stride.

Ostriches can tolerate a wide range of temperatures.

Mitochondrial DNA haplotype comparisons suggest that it diverged from the other Ostriches not quite four mya due to formation of the East African Rift.

While the relationship of the African species is comparatively straightforward, a large number of Asian species of Ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to the African Ostriches is confusing.

* Fantasia: Chernabog, Yen Sid, Hop Lo, the Mushrooms, the Ostriches, the Cupids, one of the Centaurettes, Bacchus, Jacchus, and the Bald Mountain Ghosts.

Another enclosure will house Grévy's Zebras along with Grey Crowned Cranes Ostriches, Marabou Stork, and other birds.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we drove out into the bush in a Land Rover.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

He did not, however, settle back into acquiescence with things as they were.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

In Ptolemaic terms, however, eclipses and retrograde motion were phenomena simpliciter, to be explained directly as possible resultants of epicyclical combinations.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

Some time ago, however, Mr. Khrushchev decided that when bigger bombs were made, the Soviet Union would make them.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

the important point, however, is that these magnificent achievements, unlike those of later decades, were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models.

To the ancestral lore, however, new materials were added.

The account of the growth and final transcription of these epics rests partly, however, upon the degree to which they were formulaic.

They were not sufficiently challenging however, and she resigned in 1887, to go to Germany with her brother Winslow and his family while he was there on study.

These became `` strays '', the term bein' restricted to cattle, however, as hosses, under like circumstances, were spoken of as `` stray hosses '', not merely `` strays ''.

Perier's efforts, however, were on the whole ineffective in winning back the tribes of the Mobile district, and he decided to send troops into the troubled country.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

We were not, however, prepared for anything like the apparition that confronted us as Felix came up the stairs.

In the background lurked the feeling, however, that these pieces, beautiful as they were, lacked the utilitarian touch.

Neither Tylor nor Frazer, however, was particularly interested in fieldwork, nor were they interested in examining how the cultural elements and institutions fit together.