ostriches

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ostriches

Animal families: Ostriches

2001
Explores animal behavior, particularly socialization, with analogies to human growth and development.

Ostriches, emus, rheas, kiwis, & cassowaries

1991
Discusses the physical characteristics, habitats, and behavior of the flightless birds classified as ratites.

Can you tell an ostrich from an emu?

2012
Discusses the differences between the ostrich and the emu.

The cuckoo child

1993
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.

Ostriches

nature's biggest birds
2009
This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of ostriches that use their wings to balance their bodies when they run.

Ostriches

2001
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the ostrich.

Ostriches and other flightless birds

1990
An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of ostriches and a variety of other birds that do not fly including the rhea, emu, cassowary, kiwi, and tinamou.

Zella, Zack, and Zodiac

1986
Zella the zebra helps Zack the ostrich when he is young and helpless and when he grows up Zack returns the favor by saving Zella's young offspring from a lion.

How the ostrich got a long neck

a tale from the Akamba of Kenya
1995
A tale from the Akamba people of Kenya that explains why the ostrich has such a long neck.

Ostriches

1989
Describes the appearance, habits, nesting, feeding, infancy, and importance to humans of the world's largest bird.

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