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• n  flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds

• ratite
• ratite bird

• carinate

News & Articles

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• Cassowary Chick Hatched At Virginia Zoo
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Virginia Zoo officials say the birth of a cassowary chick in Norfolk is one of only five such births in U.S. zoos over the past decade.    Cassowaries are flightless birds native to
  June 26, 2013 - WRIC 8 News Richmond