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Wild, ostrichlike rheas called nandus wandered the pastures below our balcony, intermingling with noisy, attitudinous black-and-white southern lapwings, chubby cattle, and polo ponies -- their bubble-level playing fields in the foreground a reminder that this version of Eden has been subtly but forcefully shaped to suit the estancia owners 'preoccupations.

Off the Beaten Track Richard Nalley 2010

This downward slide started 2,000 years ago when immigrants from what is now Indonesia wiped out species of pygmy hippos and large, ostrichlike birds.

The Rape Of Paradise 2007

On the island of Madagascar, for instance, there once lived an ostrichlike creature that stood ten feet tall, weighed half a ton, and thumped across the landscape on a pair of elephantine legs.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

On the South American mainland, Darwin had seen two different yet closely related species of Rhea, those ostrichlike birds, both species occupying the plains of Patagonia.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

On the island of Madagascar, for instance, there once lived an ostrichlike creature that stood ten feet tall, weighed half a ton, and thumped across the landscape on a pair of elephantine legs.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

On the South American mainland, Darwin had seen two different yet closely related species of Rhea, those ostrichlike birds, both species occupying the plains of Patagonia.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Silence is choosing, ostrichlike, not to know what Arab is doing to fellow Arab, all in the name of a knee-jerk anti-westernism which has turned into a disease….

Saying the Unsayable Mortimer, Edward 1993

The avian clacked its beak back at him and made a gesture with its graceful, ostrichlike neck, its periscope form weaving confidently through the crowd.

Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'

The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'

The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983