Recently, a rare sight appeared in Chongzuo city in Guangxi province of China, hundreds of ostriches ran away from the farm and became “street athletes” at the moment. In the morning, the incident surprised people nearby. After this image was spread on the internet, it also caused many netizens to discuss it.
In the video recorded by locals, in the early morning of January 8, a flock of ostriches was running on the road in Chong Ta city as if seeing these routes as their race track.
After that, the ostriches separated from the herd, 3-5 ostriches walked around in the small alleys, sometimes they walked slowly, sometimes they stopped to rest. There are ostriches so scared that they hide in the fields and there are also a few that run up the highway.
The local media immediately sent reporters to the scene to report on it after receiving the news. A woman surnamed Nghiem said that these ostriches almost attacked her, fortunately she was able to hide in the store. Later these ostriches also ran through the store, not only knocking over the barbeque counter, but also breaking many plates and dishes.
The ostriches have been confirmed to have fled from a local livestock farm.
The person in charge of the breeding area showed up the next day to explain that they suddenly received a call from the workers at 2 a.m. to find out that the ostriches had “break out of prison”.
He said the farm has a total of 300 ostriches, that evening it was probably because the fence was not closed properly or someone intentionally opened the door, causing more than 100 ostriches to run out.
You mentioned that ostriches are afraid of moving vehicles, so they will run in other directions after being startled. They informed the police after learning that the ostriches had escaped, and they also found someone to arrest these “jailbreak” ostriches. Currently, more than 60 have been found, and about 30 have not been found yet.
He also said that whether it is grass or vegetables, as long as it is green, the ostrich will eat it. The next morning they found ostriches “clumsily eating” vegetables on the farm. Out of all these ostriches found, the longest distance they ran is estimated to be 6 km.
