Ghofran Abdulmueen (OSTRICH)

Ghofran Abdulmueen 

May 7, 2013

Ostrich

   The ostrich is endangered species. The scientific name of animal is Struthio Camelus. The ostrich has long neck, legs and its feet touch the ground with two feet. Their legs very powerful and can cause serious injury if used to kick a human or predator. Males have feather on the back, also they got white feather on the wings and tails. The female color is brownish color. The ostrich is the fastest moving bird on land-reaching speeding of up to 40 mile per hours. The weight is 287 pounces and the height is 6.5 feet.

    The ostrich is solitary; the ostrich are not very social and prefer to live alone. However groups of 5 to 50 birds may travel together with other animals, such as zebras or antelopes. In addition, ostriches are not predator. The ostrich is an omnivore, it eat animal and plant.

   Ostrich habits on open grass land. Ostrich comprised of semi-arid mixed wood land, scrub and grassland. Water is always in short supply in the region, where one or both rainy season commonly fails. They live for 5 to 10 years.

   In mid-20^th century ostriches were founds in southwestern Asia, Arabian peninsulas and Africa. Today ostrich found in central South Africa in Sahara Africa. Ostrich were almost wiped out in the 18^th century due to hunting for feather.  

   

The causes of population decline are, in the past, they were hunting and farmed for their fine feather and skin. Also two ostrich subspecies are listed as endangered the West Africa ostrich. Today, ostrich hunting is less of a problem since the demand for their feather is not as great as in the past and there for surviving species seem to have secure population. Although peoples they use the feather for boots and bags. Ostrich have been successfully domestic and now farmed throughout the world particularly in South Africa for meet, feather and, leather.

  

                                       Work cited

 Author, Ostrich www.earthendangerd.com

Publisher N.p web May 7, 2013

  Author, Ostrich www.krugerpark.co.oz

Publisher N.p web May 7, 2013