Re: Israel spring 2017 - seeing a living fossil in the wild
Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 12:32 pm
Thanks both!
There used to be an endemic subspecies which is extinct nowadays. In the reserve we visited, they have the African subspecies and its part of an experiment to reintroduce ostriches back in the wild in the Middle East. These ostriches are part of that and live semi wild in the reserve.
Michal Szkudlarek wrote:btw i did not know that ostriches are native to Israel
There used to be an endemic subspecies which is extinct nowadays. In the reserve we visited, they have the African subspecies and its part of an experiment to reintroduce ostriches back in the wild in the Middle East. These ostriches are part of that and live semi wild in the reserve.