{"id":1330,"date":"2014-09-26T22:39:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T02:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2014-09-27T03:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T07:15:46","slug":"common-ostrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/09\/26\/common-ostrich\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ostrich"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ostriches are the largest flightless birds currently in existence.
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\nOstriches can weigh over 140 kilograms and run real fast about 70 km\/h. A person can actually ride an ostrich, which might strike some people as odd since we usually associate riding with quadrupeds, not birds.<\/p>\n
Ostriches along with emus, cassowaries, and kiwis belong to a group of birds called the ratites characterized by being flightless and having a breastbone without a keel where the flight muscles would be attached.<\/p>\n