Does an ostrich have a voice? Detailed answer

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Does an ostrich have a voice?

From whichever side you look at the ostrich, it is a strange and wonderful bird. The ostrich is the largest bird, but it cannot fly. It uses its small wings to balance them while running fast. The head and neck of this bird are almost devoid of feathers. The long legs of an ostrich end in only two fingers. The plumage of the male is black or dark brown, with the exception of wing feathers and a white tail. The plumage of the female is much duller and shorter.

As you might guess, such a bird can hardly have a singing voice, but the ostrich does have a voice! Most of the year, ostriches emit only a loud, hissing sound, but during the mating season, they “cut through” a booming roar that is clearly audible even at a great distance. Three or four female ostriches lay their eggs in one shallow hole dug in the sand, and take turns incubating them, at night they are replaced by a male.

Ostrich eggs are the largest of those that are laid by living birds. The ostrich is very greedy. Its diet consists mainly of plants, berries and grains. And in order to better digest food, the ostrich sometimes swallows large stones, pieces of iron and other objects!

People breed ostriches for their magnificent feathers. The first plucking can be carried out even before the ostrich is one year old, and each time new feathers will grow in place of the plucked feathers.

Author: Likum A.

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Where did ice cream come from?

Fifty years ago, people only ate ice cream in the summer. Now it is eaten all year round. It was invented in the East long before schoolchildren first tried ice cream in waffle cups.

Explorer Marco Polo saw people eating ice cream there. He liked this idea so much that he brought it to Italy. From there, ice cream came to France and became popular with noble people. They tried to hide the ice cream recipe from the common people. But, of course, people soon recognized the taste of this delicacy, and ice cream became popular among them. It soon spread throughout the world and even reached the United States.

The first ice cream factory began operating in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851. But the production of ice cream did not become widespread until the beginning of our century, when new refrigeration units appeared.

Ice cream consists of cream, milk or dairy products, and sometimes eggs are added to it. For taste, vanilla, chocolate, berries, nuts or fruits are added to ice cream. The recipe for regular ice cream is as follows: for 80-85% of cream or other dairy products, take 15% sugar, from 0,5 to 4,5% flavor and 0,3% stabilizer.

A small amount of stabilizer is added to make the ice cream more uniform and prevent the formation of coarse ice crystals. For this purpose, edible gelatin is usually used.

When you eat a third of a cup of vanilla ice cream, you get as much calcium, protein, and vitamin B as in half a cup of milk, and as much vitamin A as in a whole cup.

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