Posted by punnya on May 4, 2013, 4:46 p.m.
For other uses, see Ostrich (disambiguation).
| Ostrich Temporal range: Pleistocene–presentPleistocene to Recent | |
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| Male (left) and female (right) | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Superorder: | Paleognathae |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Struthionidae |
| Genus: | Struthio |
| Species: | S. camelus |
| Binomial name | |
| Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758[2] | |
| Subspecies | |
S. c. australus Gurney, 1868[2] | |
