In this video, a person called “the Ostrich Whisperer” appears to display an intimate knowledge of how ostriches behave towards humans: One can wonder many things about the Ostrich Whisperer’s knowledge. One can wonder how it compares with the knowledge reported in the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches (Struthio camelus) Towards Humans Under Farming […]
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New uses for old CDs (part 1)
Got old CDs? Looking for uses for them? Have you thought about them in the context of ostrich entertainment? See: ‘How To Enrich the Largest Living Bird ‘ in the 2015 issue of The Ratite Review : The AZA Struthioniformes Taxon Advisory Group’s Annual Newsletter [note: 10 MB download] “Captive Ostrich enjoy various forms of […]
Can (or should) Ostriches Eat Horseshoes?
The idea that ostriches are partial to eating horseshoes goes back a long way. Hundreds of years in fact. See this 14th century depiction of a horseshoe (and nail) Struthioniforme mealtime. But can the birds actually eat and digest them? Over the centuries, several experiments have been performed to find out, and some are recounted […]
Anticipating the robotic ostrich
Evan Ackerman writes in the IEEE Spectrum Automation blog: I’ll bet you didn’t know that DARPA was even interested in a robotic ostrich, did you? I sure as heck didn’t. But I suppose it shouldn’t be that surprising, since DARPA seems to want robotic versions of just about anything that’s capable of extreme levels of performance, and an ostrich apparently […]