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Ostrich Facts From Stomach to Speed and Plumes
The scrapbook notes explain that ostriches swallow varied items without harm their stomachs. They eat leaves fruit lizards and snakes and may ingest sand bones or stones. Eggs weigh about three pounds and hatch in six to seven weeks. Groups range from four to fifty birds. Plumes spurred farms in California Florida Arizona North Carolina and Arkansas. Ostriches run fast about a mile per minute and have even pulled light carriages on racetracks sometimes veering off course.
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