Ostriches: Did you know?

Did you know:

• 1 ostrich egg =24 chicken eggs
• Ostriches live up to 70-80 yrs old
• 1 egg is laid every 2 days
• incubation period=42 days
• their eyes are bigger than their brain
• difference between male and female: male-black with red scales on front of legs+beak-sits on eggs at night. Female-grey-sits on eggs at daytime.
• female starts sitting on eggs only from the time there are 13 eggs in the nest
• to cool off they breathe heavily through their beak and fan their wings
• they have 2 toes+1 support toe
• they have 1 big claw at the end of each wing for fighting and for making nests.

Margot