Family Hunters Killing Ostriches 
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportionism it is primarily a hunter but may also scavenge, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste. Ostrich leather is a lucrative commodity, and the large feathers are used as plumes for the decoration of ceremonial headgear.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret! It is reproduced in “Mrs.
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