At 16:34 7/05/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Have ostriches ever been exported to America?
>I'm reading a novel which tells of a family who imported ostriches from
Australia and lost their fortune trying to farm them in America in the
1940's. I'm sure the author meant to say from South Africa and not Australia.
>It's hard to believe he never researched this book thoroughly before
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.
I looked up Ostrich in John Long's book "Introduced birds of the world",
which is very thorough.
He mentioned Ostriches were first brought to Sout Australia in 1869,
by 1882 the S Aus govt began to encourage ostrich farming and large
flocks were developed near Pt August and Coorong, etc etc.
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
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