When it comes to raising animal babies, most males take a back seat, leaving moms to do the majority of the work. That's not the case with ostriches, though; males play a huge role in raising their ...

The London Zoo recently shared a video on TikTok of Rocky, their "big" male ostrich, performing his courtship dance to attract potential mates and he gets pretty flirty! But what's funny about his ...

Research published in the online journal, BMC Biotechnology reports on a new, large-scale technique for distinguishing between male and female ostrich chicks using DNA extracted from feathers. This ...

There's so much FOMO and jealousy on social media. Either we are sad about missing the London leg of the Taylor Swift Era's tour or someone is eating some delicious sandwich (that we aren't) or ...

The ostrich-breeding boom flourished over the next three years. Both my husband and I were employed in the ostrich industry. He raised chicks, collected eggs and handled big birds, and I incubated and ...

A total of 416 day-old ostrich chicks were randomly allocated to one of the three different husbandry practices for 3 months after hatch; HP1 (extensive human presence with gentle human voice, visual ...

KALMTHOUT, Belgium, March 11 (Reuters) - Ostriches are normally territorial and aggressive birds best approached with caution, but at a Belgian animal rescue farm, the hand-reared birds are so gentle ...