Ostriches

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Excerpt from Ostriches: Their Habits and PeculiaritiesImmediately prior to the breaking -of, the shell by the embryo the yolk Sack is drawn in at the navel and thus supplies the chick with sufficient nour ishment for four or five days. When hatched the chicks' legs and feet have a soft, puffy appearance, caused by a watery liquid that surrounds and pro tects the bones, a necessary precaution of Dame Nature, as if unprotected the bones would become quickly brokenin the struggles of the ichick' to imitate its majestic sire. By the time the yolk food is exhausted, the legs and feet have lost their puffy shape, and the bones are firm, permitting their proud possessors to walk about in search of food, bits of broken shell and very small gravel, followed by pieces of cabbage leaves, beet tops, natural grasses and alfalfa furnishing the necessary menu.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.