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Ostriches. Yeah... Ostriches.

Growing up in Oklahoma we had this free range animal park.... not to far from Joe Exotic's tiger farm actually. But anyway you rented open safari jeeps to drive around this park and you could buy buckets of animal food. Animals would come up to the jeep and eat out of your food buckets.

The first time I went there I was 5 years old. The night before my Aunt told me to be careful because the Ostrich would "come and eat my little grub worm". At 5 years old this mortified me. Literally the first animals that came up to our cars were the Ostriches.

This one big bastard came up and only had one eye. Sure enough it put his head in our jeep trying to get at the food buckets but 5 year old me thought he was coming to eat my "grub worm". I hit under the seats for at least 20 minutes. I have always been scared of Ostriches.


edit: and Yes I have visited Joe Exotic's Tiger farm... a few times. It was quite grungy but I do remember him being there at least twice. He was definitely a character and had what seemed like unlimited energy.