Native to South Africa, ostriches long roamed a vast semidesert plain called the Karoo.
Mr. KUZNITSOF: (Through translator) Everyone in the West has dug his head into the sand like ostriches.
Somebody said that he seemed the love child of storks, others thought ostriches.
"Liability in court is likely to be the next lever that will push those ostriches into a more proactive stance, " he said.
If these ostriches were to actually look at the numbers, they would realize that it is their investments which are made of sand.
The Dundr family, which regained ownership of the Three Ostriches after communism went, is thinking of leasing it to a foreign management company.
Ostriches range from 6 feet to 9 feet tall, and when you sit on a bird's back you're about 4 feet off the ground.
John Hutchinson , a researcher at the University of London's Royal Veterinary College, has used this paradigm to reckon the top speeds of ostriches and elephants.
The former Coca-Cola executive began campaigning three years ago, while also acting as governor of Guanajuato state and running a ranch of cattle, ostriches and chickens.
The Ornithomimids - from the Latin for "bird mimics" - superficially resembled modern-day ostriches, with a toothless beak, large eyes and long legs, but they also had a long, thick tail.
At the southernmost point of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve is home to Chacma baboons, ponderous, large antelopes called elands, ostriches, rare tortoises, bonteboks and zebras.
And when he ran the profile he had assembled through a database of known collagens, he found it was most similar to the versions found in chickens and ostriches substantiating Dr Schweitzer's antibody-based hunch.
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Created as the first steppe reserve in the Ukraine in 1888, it comprises a dendrological park of the 19th century and a zoological park with a breeding centre for Przewalski horse, ostriches, aboriginal ungulates and birds.
The architect in charge of the project, Barbara Nazzaro, says that visitors will be able to see where the lions, tigers, bulls, ostriches and gazelles were kept in cells before being hoisted up on 80 rope-slung lifts to the ground floor.
About 40, 000 of these travelers settled in Cape Town, South Africa, lured by reports of the region's rich diamond and gold mines, but their immigration coincided with the rise of feathers in fashion, and South Africa already had domesticated ostriches who produced some of the highest-ranked feathers in the world.
His wife Clara, 46, a lawyer who has worked part-time while raising the couple's two children, is ready to increase her billable hours to boost the family income as she and Don begin the final push toward their goal: leaving the workaday world, still youthfully vigorous, to own and operate a bed-and-breakfast in the Berkshires, as well as a 1.7-acre spread for raising ostriches.
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