LisaS
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DH and I are here at AKV on our once in a lifetime Concierge trip! We got a savanna view so our room faces the Sunset Savanna. We were out on the balcony late this afternoon watching some animals. Two ostriches were walking around with their wings out, cooling themselves off. One of them sat down in the dirt roadway in this strange pose:
and then she got up again and what a surprise! She had laid an egg!
She nuzzled it a bit
but then just walked away leaving it right in the road:
We had learned this morning that the ostriches here lay eggs from time to time but since they have only female ostriches here at AKL/V the eggs are not fertilized. The staff does pick them up off the savanna. So we let someone here know about it and they contacted the animal programs staff. A short time later, someone came along to collect it. He picked it up and then looked up at us and gave us a thumbs up!
It was all very amazing! We also saw little "Kidani", the 6-week-old baby zebra out on the Sunset Savanna. I took a few photos of him and this is one of the better ones:
and then she got up again and what a surprise! She had laid an egg!
She nuzzled it a bit
but then just walked away leaving it right in the road:
We had learned this morning that the ostriches here lay eggs from time to time but since they have only female ostriches here at AKL/V the eggs are not fertilized. The staff does pick them up off the savanna. So we let someone here know about it and they contacted the animal programs staff. A short time later, someone came along to collect it. He picked it up and then looked up at us and gave us a thumbs up!
It was all very amazing! We also saw little "Kidani", the 6-week-old baby zebra out on the Sunset Savanna. I took a few photos of him and this is one of the better ones:
