• Question: How do you ride an ostrich effectively?

    Asked by 848anmh42 to Rupert, Ellen on 16 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      Haha, great question … my answer would be hold on really REALLY tight! Although I am really not sure on the welfare implications. But i did find quite a funny article, my favourite sentence being ‘In fact, riding an ostrich is remarkably like riding a pencil-necked two-hundred-and-fifty pound chicken’

      http://eventingnation.com/how-to-ride-an-ostrich/

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 17 Mar 2017:

      I don’t think riding an ostrich is a good idea – for you or the ostrich! Ostriches can run very fast though – when I was working in Africa a group of them overtook our car and ran across the road in front of us. I think you would be safer riding a horse. Or a bicycle…

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