In the wild, ostriches live in the dry and sandy regions of central and southern Africa. They live in flocks of between 5 and 50 individuals. However, when it comes to breeding, they form groups of ...

Time was when only five species of vertebrates were known to use tools. There was man, of course. Chimpanzees used rocks to break open hard-shelled food, sticks to feed on termites and ants, and ...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY — An ostrich flew the coop last week for an unsupervised walk through his neighborhood in St. Charles County. "There are no routine service calls in policing," the St. Charles ...

The device of pretending to be wounded in order to lure marauders from the nest is one that has been recorded in the case of a considerable number of species of ground-nesting birds, mostly belonging ...

IT seems strange that there should have existed an uncertainty in the mind of an ornithologist as to the mode of incubation of the ostrich in confinement at the Cape of Good Hope. The habits of the ...