Beautiful And Unique Bird African Ostrich Stock Photo

There is an opinion that when frightened, the ostrich buries its head in the sand. The popular opinion that ostriches hide their heads in the sand, fleeing from predators, originates in the works of the Roman thinker Pliny the Elder, in whose records we read: `ostriches imagine that when they put their head and neck in the ground, their whole body seems to be hidden` .