Extreme Ostrich Makeover

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Extreme Ostrich Makeover

• -Felicia, Kayla, Jen, Melissa and Muna.

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What we did

• We mutated our ostrich so that it could live in
  a tropical forest habitat.

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Home Sweet Home

• (lived) Southern and Central Africa
• (lives) A Tropical Forest

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How Tall???

• We changed the height from 2.6 meters to
• 1.5 meters so that it can dodge undergrowth.

1.5 m
2.6 m
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FAT OSTRICH!!!

• The ostrichs weight was
• 135 kg, but because we
• didnt like how fat it was, we
• changed it to 74 kg (seeing
• as it is only 1.5 meters tall).

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Freaky Feathers

• The before ostrich had a plump body covered
  with soft feathers.
• Our new ostrich has waxed feathers so that the
  rain runs off because there is a lot of rain in a
  tropical forest.

new feathers
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Colour Scheme

• Before Male- glossy black and the wing and tail
  feathers are white
• Female and Younger Males- Grey and
• brown
• After Green and brown so it can camouflage
  with a yellow beak and feet

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Dinner Time!!!

• It used to eat various seeds, bushes, footage on
  trees, and small mammals.
• Now we just added fruits to its diet.

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Added Features

• Webbed feet so it can walk through the water in
  the forest.
• Sharp beak so it can eat through the shell of the
  fruits.
• Claws so it can grip the wet ground when running.
• Fur on legs to keep it warm.

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Unchanged Features

• Though it cannot fly it can still run very fast.
• We kept the small, flat head and long neck.

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Mutation Process
After
Before
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Credits Lead Investigator.Muna Habitat
Expert.Jen Forensic Artist.Kayla
/ Melissa Audio-Visual Expert.Felicia