On the territory of an abandoned airfield six miles north of Dundee (Scotland), a three-foot (0.9 meters) leg was found gnawed by someone … an ostrich. Experts are racking their brains where the ostrich came from and who could eat it.
The leg was discovered by a dog breeder walking his dog. Experts examined the remains from the sent photograph and came to the conclusion that this is the leg of a South American ostrich rhea. But the problem is, in Scotland, and specifically in this region, there are no farms that would keep these ostriches on their farms.
Thinking for a long time, no one was able to offer a logical explanation for the find. According to the dog breeder, there were many large black and white feathers around the leg, that is, most likely, there was originally something more of an ostrich than a leg. The dog breeder himself, who works as a cleaner at the University of Dundee, believes that someone killed the ostrich in that place and ate it.
But the predators capable of overwhelming a huge bird have long ceased to exist in Scotland. And there are no packs of wild dogs. By the way, the janitor doubts that this is an ostrich, according to him, it does not really look like a nanda's leg. Moreover, the remains were fresh and smelled foul. Now they have been transferred to the museum for further study.
Ostrich rhea
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