Ian Clark wrote:
>
> >writing it, so I thought I better make sure he was wrong before I
> write him
> >a letter pointing out his mistake.
> >>Cheers
> >>Lorna
> >
> >Hi Lorna,
> >
> >Since no one else has follow this up, here's my 2c.
> >>He makes no mention of any introduced Ostriches in America, or
> anywhere
> other
> >than S Aus and WA (sometime before 1912).
> >
> >Has anyone else anything on this.
> >
> >Pete
> >
> >Dr Peter Woodall email =
>
> >Division of Vet Pathology & Anatomy
> >School of Veterinary Science. Phone = +61 7 3365 2300
> >The University of Queensland Fax = +61 7 3365 1355
> >Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4072 WWW =
> http://www.uq.edu.au/~anpwooda
> >"hamba phezulu" (= "go higher" in isiZulu)
> >
> While not knowing a lot about ostriches, feral colonies did exist in
> Australia There would still be some feral birds around
> Not being a native bird I dont think they would have received
> protection
> against being exported or trapped
> My feeling would be there would have been birds available from
> Australia
> for export
> with the crazy prices like up too $ 100,000 for breeding pair and
> $2000
> for an egg payed in the last 10-15 years most feral birds would
> have
> been trapped , but as the industry crashed again interest in them
> would
> also have crashed I guess the question is whether 60 years ago
> any
> Americans were looking to bring any animals across from Australia ,
> Im sure
> they would have cheers Ian
>
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Further on the subject of Ostriches, there is the point that importing
anything living from Africa to US would be fraught with dangers of
diseases affecting livestock. Whereas, Australia has always been pretty
clean in that respect. I know American zoos needed fresh camel stocks
and got them from Australia because they were disease-free. The same
might just as well apply to Ostriches.
Back in the days when everything had to be moved by sea, the long
voyages to reach Australia ensured that if any disease was present in
livestock, it had broken out before animals etc. arrived here. The
voyage itself acted as a quarantine period.
Anthea Fleming in Melbourne
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