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Article: Ostrich alert!(Creature Feature)(Brief article)
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Old Abe," "General Grant," "Grover Cleveland," and more than 20 of their fellow two-legged friends also "attended" the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
These guests weren't U.S. presidents, as you might think from their names. No, these residents of the California Ostrich Farm were just one of the many exhibits designed to delight and amuse visitors along the Midway Plaisance. If you'd visited the fair, you might have learned a few things about these remarkable creatures:
* Ostriches are the largest living birds, but they can't fly.
* They ...