Ratites

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Ratites

• Rhea
• Kiwi

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Rhea

• From Argentina
• 4 - 5 tall, 60 - 80 pounds
• Males incubate the eggs
• and care for newborns
• uses of rhea oils, meat and leather
• 3 toes/foot

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• Color pale gray to brown
• No tail feathers, long body feathers cover
  posterior

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Kiwi

• Endangered species from New Zealand
• Size of a chicken - 1 tall and 2 - 9 pounds)
• Nostrils on end of beak
• Lays largest eggs compared to body size (same
  size as ostrich eggs!)
• Nocturnal

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• Color brown, gray feathers, no tail feathers
• 3 toes/foot

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This is not a kiwi bird!
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