Ostrich

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​ **  General informations about ostriches: Ostriches are birds but they can not fly like penguins, but they can run very fast up to 72kmh. Ostriches lay eggs and they have feathers like other birds ostriches are the decents of the dodo bird that are extinct now  because of Spanish explorers who massacred and ate them all when they were killing the native people and taking over Austrailia. Ostriches have long necks and long legs. Ostriches are the largest bird on Earth. Ostriches are about 180cm~210cm.
 * Task 1 **

​ How ostriches communicate: Breeding males emit roars and hisses as they fight for a group of 3 to 5 receptive females. Usual, chirps and moans are also sounds used to communicate amongst the group. Like other animals ostriches communicate with sounds and body gestures.

How ostriches respond: It is pretty obvious that ostriches respond. When I went to a farm in abbotsford, I road on an ostrich and I was a curious kid back then and i started to think that ostriches were pretty much the same as horses so I kicked the ostrich on it's side and the ostrich took off with me on it's back going at the speed of 45 kmh the maximum speed of a cycling bicycle. Eventually I fell off the ostrich's back and sprained my ankle and my wrist. Never do these. So I found out that ostriches respond. They feel physical pains. How ostriches are made out of more than one cell: Ostriches are made out of feathers, beak, claws, tongue, and bones. Each part of ostrich is made out of a differnet cell which proves that ostriches are made out of more than one cell.

How ostriches reproduce: An ostriche's mateing season starts between March~April and ends in September. Ostriches lay eggs that are about 13centimetres in diameter. ** ​

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TASK 2 **Kingdom animalia: Ostrich's belong to the kingdom animalia because they are multicelluar and they feed off living things. Ostriches feed off living things by eating leaves and grazing on grass. The largest of the kingdom ove 2 millions of species belong to kingdom animalia including ostriches.**
 * The classification of an ostrich **

**Phylum chordata: Ostriches belong to the highest phylum chordata. Phylum chordatas have bones and feed off living things and more. It has a vertebra, the spine where the nerves are and they have spinal cord.**

Ostriches are mostly mamalia because they are warm blooded and their blood temperature can not change, but they don't give birth they lay eggs. **
 * Class mamalia:

Every bird belong to the order Aves and a ostrich is a bird so ostriches belong to Aves. **
 * Order Aves:

**Family struthionidae ostrich is a unique member of the family struthionidae.**

**Genus Struthio: ostriches are the only living species of the Struthio genus they are rare they are flight-less.** Ostriches have ears on the back of their head to hear better and not hear the wind blowing in their ears. Ostriches have long legs to flee faster ostriches can run up to 90kmh. Ostriches could fly ages ago but they have lost their use of wings because they had basically no predators when the Spansih sailors hunted and massacred animals in Austrailia. Instead their legs developed. **
 * Task 3:**
 * Ostriches have long necks to see far so they know when the predators come. If ostriches flee other animals flee,too.

**The long legs help ostriches run away from predators. The long neck helps them to see far. The ears located on the back of their head helps them hear better.**
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