JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Clambering onto an ostrich for a ride used to be popular ... Oudtshoorn is in South Africa’s arid Karoo region and ostriches were first farmed there for their feathers ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg’s contents are ...

One common kitchen scrap in Africa -- shells of ostrich eggs -- is now helping ... such as those of emus in Australia and rheas in South America, as well as the eggs of now extinct flightless ...

Spotted hyenas in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve feast on an ostrich egg. The world’s largest ... Domesticated in South Africa in the 1860s, they’re now raised worldwide for their ...

In South Africa, I weigh my own produce before I get to the register and buy unrefrigerated eggs. I can also buy game meat, like ostrich and impala, in most South African grocery stores.

Humans have long gravitated toward the eggs of birds, with ostrich egg consumption in South Africa possibly dating back 60,000 years. (Chicken egg consumption is relatively much newer, likely ...