Safari: Tanzania - Ngorongoro Part 2, Tuesday 2022 November 8
November 8th 2022 To our amazement, out on the plain were two parent ostriches and seventeen fluffy chicks, about the size of soccer balls. Lucas explained that typically 4 – 6 females lay their 14 – 20 eggs in the same nest, and the alpha female cares for all of them. Not equally, however, as she keeps hers in the centre where it is safest. Ostriches are good parents, but the attrition of eggs and babies is in
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