Flightless birds - Ratites
The African Ostrich is the largest living Ratites. They can be nearly 10ft tall, weigh as much as 350 lb, and can outrun a horse. The other Ratites include the Emu and Cassowary - native to Australia, the Rhea - native to South America and the Kiwi - native to New Zealand.
- if you look closely in the grass there's a whole bunch of ostrich chicks following the mom (left.)
oh, and these guys tend to be mean SOBs.
- if you look closely in the grass there's a whole bunch of ostrich chicks following the mom (left.)
oh, and these guys tend to be mean SOBs.
Cassowary
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Red-Necked Ostrich
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The plainstriders seem to be the large, flightless bird equivalent in-Game.
Now, here is an alternative pre-historic flightless bird that could have also been the inspiration for the plainstriders. Darren Naish writes an interesting blog about these ancient birds - "Were you to visit sunny Texas 5 million years ago (cough cough), a giant predatory bird, 3 m tall with a head 70 cm long, might have kicked you down and eviscerated you with its immense hooked bill. I am of course talking about phorusrhacids, sometimes called terror birds, the mostly large, flightless predatory birds of the prehistoric Americas."
Now, here is an alternative pre-historic flightless bird that could have also been the inspiration for the plainstriders. Darren Naish writes an interesting blog about these ancient birds - "Were you to visit sunny Texas 5 million years ago (cough cough), a giant predatory bird, 3 m tall with a head 70 cm long, might have kicked you down and eviscerated you with its immense hooked bill. I am of course talking about phorusrhacids, sometimes called terror birds, the mostly large, flightless predatory birds of the prehistoric Americas."
Terror Bird Skull - www78 - flickrcc
Terror Bird and Glyptodont - jvstin - flickrcc
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Terror Bird - anselor - flickrcc
Terror Bird 2 - rwillia532 - flickrcc
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