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This extremely funny video shows the rarest sprint an ostrich that competes in speed with cyclists, moreover not ordinary tourists, but professionals.
This happened the other day in South Africa. Before the Cape Town Bike Tour several cyclists decided to ride a hundred thirty-kilometer highway to the Cape of Good Hope with the aim of raising tone, warm up and generally combine business with pleasure. On on this road they met an ostrich, which jumped onto the track and decided to demonstrate to the athletes that he was without any technique can develop decent speed. Some of the users The Internet even suggested that it was a male ostrich who decided in this way show off in front of the female. Well, apparently he succeeded one hundred percent.
The video was shot by Aleksey Mishchenko, a Ukrainian living in Zurich, who also participated in this cycling warm up. But he was lucky to go a little behind two comrades, behind which a nimble bird was attached, possessing amazing legs. Not in vain, at one time, in the Soviet Union was even removed witty cartoon “Wings, legs and tails”, which shows that ostriches do not fly, but they run well, and how run around!
How the ostrich scared at first, and then made laugh
Alexey Mishchenko in the commentary to the video noted that this a swift, very large bird first caused him some fear, because she could have knocked anyone down in an instant athlete on a bicycle. But then Alex rode for competing ostrich and his companions, recorded this amazing sprint on the DVR was barely restrained so as not to burst out laughing so it’s not long to fall off a bicycle. Speed cyclists in this the moment reached fifty kilometers, but the ostrich did not lag behind from trained athletes for several minutes. Later he was just tired of it, and he turned off the road. Or maybe he’s already I realized that further show off in front of a girlfriend does not make sense, because she’s probably long behind.
At the same time, the ostrich is hardly tired, because, according to the statement specialists of the National Wildlife Fund, these birds can run at that pace for tens of kilometers. By the way, ostriches on the very actually capable of causing serious injury to a person, they have powerful legs, adapted not only to run fast, but also it’s painful to kick, as they say, no worse than a horse. Especially since ostriches are up to three meters tall …
So, we watch a funny video and get a lot of positive emotions that gave us Alexei Mishchenko.
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