Tuesday, March 23, 2010

OSTRICH

OSTRICH
Phylim-chordata

sub-phylum-Gnathostomata.
supper class-Tetrapoda.
class-Aves.
1.Largest living flightles bird Male attains length upto 2.40metre height and weughs about 300lbs.female smaller.
2.cocouration is diffrent in bogh the sexes male has the head and neck almost bare and the body plumage of a glossy jet black and the tail feathers and wing quills white.
3.Both sexes possess short and stout beals.
4Foot hooks like two toed/
5.Legs bare and pink coloured.
6.Usualy one cock lives with small group of hen which helps in the incubation of eggs.
7.Eggs by several hens are laid in a comon nest.
8.Runs un a circle on hard soil.
9.Food is a varety of plant and animal matter mexed with stones.
10.commnly found in deserts of Arabia and Africa.
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