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However, recent DNA studies indicate that the Ostrich is more closely related to the moa and the kiwi is more closely related to the Emu and the cassowaries.
The Ostrich, or Common Ostrich ( Struthio camelus ), is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member ( s ) of the genus Struthio that is in the ratite family.
The Ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest egg of any living bird ( extinct elephant birds of Madagascar and the giant moa of New Zealand did lay larger eggs ).
The tarsus of the Ostrich is the largest of any living bird, measuring in length.
Its scientific name is derived from Latin, struthio meaning " Ostrich " and camelus meaning " camel ", alluding to its dry habitat.
Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species, but there is no consensus among experts about this.
Hybridization with the subspecies that evolved southwestwards of its range, S. c. massaicus, has apparently been prevented from occurring on a significant scale by ecological separation, the Somali Ostrich preferring bushland where it browses middle-height vegetation for food while the Masai Ostrich is, like the other subspecies, a grazing bird of the open savanna and miombo habitat.
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.
For instance Xenophon records the abundance of the Ostrich in Assyria ( Anabasis, i. 5 ); this subspecies from Asia minor is extinct and all extant Ostrich races are today restricted to Africa.
Emus have three toes on each foot in a Dactyly # In birds | tridactyl arrangement, which is an adaptation for running and is seen in other birds, such as bustard s and quail s. The Ostrich has two toes on each foot.
Chandler is noted for its annual Ostrich Festival.
The Tehachapi area is known for the nearby Tehachapi Loop ( a popular railfan site ), Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, The Indian Point Ostrich Ranch, the Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park and Tomi-Kahni Resource Center ( Native American ), and excellent air conditions for gliding.
On an episode of " Ghosthunters International " that aired on July 21, 2010, it is mentioned that the Jarman murders at the Ostrich Inn were the inspiration for the story of " Sweeney Todd ".
The African Ostrich is the largest living ratite.
Near Kitengela town is the Maasai Ostrich Park, a fairly popular tourist destination 7 km off the Nairobi-Arusha road.
It is also a place where Jockeys train for Ostrich racing.

Ostrich and around
Opened in 2009, the first phase of this exhibit has Giraffe, Grevy's Zebra, Ostrich and Waterbuck roaming free in of land centred around a waterhole.
At least one independent individual has estimated Ostrich Media to be drawing more than £ 23, 000 per hour of the show being on air, or around £ 100, 000 per evening based on the new legal requirement to show the number of calls received in any particular minute.

Ostrich and world
The stories concerned jungle creatures and the ways that they adapted to a hostile world, with individual titles such as How the Elephant Got His Trunk and How the Ostrich Got So Tall.

Ostrich and particularly
* Ostrich feathers have been used as a royal badge since the time of Edward III, particularly the Three Feathers badge of the Prince of Wales.

Ostrich and for
* Index for various Ostrich studies and papers
The RSPB, born in 1889, grew from a small group of women in Croydon who met regularly and called themselves the Fur, Fin and Feather Folk and who took a pledge " to refrain from wearing the feathers of any birds not killed for the purpose of food, the Ostrich only exempted.
Paulsen has provided voices for a great amount of characters, among which are Yakko Warner, Dr. Otto Scratchansniff and Pinky in Animaniacs, Steelbeak in Darkwing Duck, " Brick " and " Boomer " in The Powerpuff Girls, Atchan in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost in The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Ogden Ostrich in Channel Umptee-3, " Reuben " in Lilo & Stitch: The Series, " Jack Fenton ," " Box Ghost ," " Technus ", and " The Ghost Vultures " in Danny Phantom, " Carl Wheezer " and " Butch " in Jimmy Neutron, " Mark Chang ", " Mr. Birkenbake " and " Peppy Happy Gary " in The Fairly OddParents, Peck the Rooster in Barnyard, and Back at the Barnyard and " Gordon " in the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch.
In 2008, his recordings of " Ostrich Walk " and " There'll Come a Time " with Bix Beiderbecke were included on the soundtrack to the Brad Pitt movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story from Tales of the Jazz Age.
This would nicely match the remains of eggs a bit smaller than those of the living Ostrich which have also been found in Paleogene deposits of Provence, were it not for the fact that these eggshell fossils also date from the Eocene but no Remiornis bones are known from that time yet.
Ossie Ostrich ( full name: Oswald Q Ostrich ) is an Australian television character, firstly on the Tarax Show, and then on the long-running program Hey Hey It's Saturday which started as a Saturday morning cartoon show for children in 1971.
TV Week carried an Ossie Ostrich comic strip for a period, and these were collected in book form.
Ostrich eggshells were used to make beads and containers ; seashells were used for necklaces.
He felt that the Ostrich feathers made a convenient tool for cleaning up the machines at the broom factory.
He lends them a " crock-pot " to use as an incubator for the then-unhatched egg that would later become Stegz's pet Ostrich, Ditto ; shares his knowledge of machinery ; and presumably keeps their existence a secret.
Hardin's last book The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia ( 1999 ), a warning about the threat of overpopulation to the Earth's sustainable economic future, called for coercive constraints on " unqualified reproductive rights " and argued that affirmative action is a form of racism.
Quiz Call is a late night / early morning phone-in quiz TV show, produced by Ostrich Media ( owned by iTouch ) for Five, Five USA and Fiver.
At the culture, media and sport committee, held on 28 November 2006, representatives from Quiz Call admitted that one instance of people being put on hold did occur and that the producer responsible no longer works for Ostrich Media.

Ostrich and its
The Ostrich was originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae under its current binomial name.
Hey Hey retained its loyal following well into the 1990s but Ernie Carroll decided to retire in 1994, taking Ossie Ostrich with him.
The crewman who delayed in flooding the rear ballast tanks was subsequently given the nickname " Ostrich ," a reference to the popular myth that the ostrich, when frightened, buries its head in the sand and thereby raises the position of its tail relative to its body.
The Ostrich also scratches out its scrape with its feet, though it stands while doing so.
The parks water ride ( The Lost River Ride ) was designed to give a safari experience before its final drop, and meanders through Savannah style grasslands with Giraffe, Ostrich, Zebra, Hippo and Rhino.

Ostrich and feathers
Ostrich feather dusters are effective by means of the tiny barbules on the feathers themselves that act as fingers to collect the dust.
Ostrich, marabou, chandelle, and turkey are the most common feathers used, although non-feather boas are also available.

Ostrich and which
Osborne wrote many of the celebrated Mickey Mouse daily strip adventures which were later adapted into the popular Big Little Books of the 30's and 40's (" Pirate Submarine ", " The Seven Ghosts ", " Oscar the Ostrich ", " Race For Riches ", " Mickey Mouse Runs His Own Newspaper ", and several others ).
The badge, which was designed by Walter Ostrich in the early days of São Paulo, consists of a shield with a black rectangle in the upper section bearing the initials SPFC in white.
Current theories suggest that it is likely based in part-for example the snake-like neck-on folk memory of the Asian Ostrich which was common in prehistoric China but became extinct several thousand years ago.
The largest ( both heaviest and tallest ) flightless bird, which is also the largest living bird, is the Ostrich ( 2. 7 m, 156 kg ), although some extinct species grew to larger sizes.
Today the largest manufacturer of Ostrich Feather Dusters is Klein Karoo International ( Feathers ) which is located in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
Kiwis are placed in the Ratite family, which also includes the Emu, Ostrich, Rhea, and Cassowary.

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