Re: OT: why not shellfish?

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In message <5zLpl6MT6ffEFwmi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vinny Burgoo <hnNULh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

And the business about ostriches being bad parents might have something to do with their patchy success at incubating their eggs: only about half of them hatch. (Something to do with temperature variation, I think.)

More a case of ostrich chicks being bad children. They can abandon one mum and take up with another as quick as boiled asparagus.
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