Meet a Baby Ostrich

Meet a Baby Ostrich book cover — Table of contents The Largest Egg page 4 Growing and Changing page 10 Let's Eat page 18 Home in the Savanna page 24 Habitat in Focus page 28 Fun Facts page 29 Glossary page 30 Further Reading page 31 Index page 32

Meet a Baby Ostrich — page 1 — The Largest Egg It's almost time Baby ostriches are about to hatch The babies will be born in a big sand pit A male ostrich dug the pit with his feet Many mother ostriches laid their eggs there This means lots of babies are on the way An ostrich pit can hold twelve to sixty eggs

Meet a Baby Ostrich — page 2 — Each ostrich egg is about 7 inches 17 centimeters long And the eggs weigh around 3.5 pounds 1.6 kilograms That's as much as twenty four chicken eggs ostrich eggs are the biggest bird eggs

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