Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOstrich Fast Fact – <\/strong>As you may expect, the largest bird in the world also lays the largest eggs. Believe it or not the Ostrich egg is about 10 times larger than your normal everyday chicken egg. Just imagine the size of omelette you could make with just one egg! \u00a0Interestingly enough, during mating season the “alpha” male will create a communal nest that will usually contain about 20 of these oversized eggs. \u00a0Unfortunately, these large eggs look scrumptious for predators such as jackals, cheetahs and hyena’s so only a couple of these eggs will ever get the chance to hatch.<\/p>\nSo that does it for the long overdue Wild Fact on an amazing bird species. I hope you enjoyed learning about the Ostrich. See you tomorrow for another fun animal fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was incredibly surprised to find out that I had yet to write a Wild Fact on the largest bird on this here planet of ours. I just don’t understand how the amazing Ostrich managed to hide this entire time. Well this game of Hide n’ Seek is over because today we are going to learn a little something about the wonderful Ostrich. This really is a special bird since not only are they the largest but they are also the fastest running bird as well. I can’t even break one record but a big ol’ bird has managed to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[2069,348,381,2067,4124,2066,4025,2065,2068],"yoast_head":"\n
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