The Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) is a flightless bird found in eastern South America. Other names for the Greater Rhea include the Grey, Common, American Rhea, ñandú (Guaraní) or ema (Portuguese). One of two species in the genus Rhea, in the family Rheidae, the Greater Rhea is endemic to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It inhabits a variety of open areas, such as grasslands, savanna or grassy wetlands. Weighing 50-55 pounds (23-25 kg), the Greater Rhea is the largest bird in South America.
Usually the males darker than females. Cub Rhea great with dark gray
stripes. Nandu is endemic in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay. A small population Rhea installed in Germany. At the end
of 2000, the population is estimated in seven birds, and in 2001
eighteen birds. Nandu diet consists mainly of deciduous trees,
fruits and seeds, especially when the season, but also insects,
scorpions, small rodents, reptiles, birds and small. Meals include
plants native species and introduced all kinds of bipartite families
Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Bignoniaceae, cruciferous vegetables,
legumes, Labiatae, myrtle, or nightshade family.
Accepted eat cereal or monocots in general. Even the vegetable materials such as hard and prickly thistle tubers or eat with pleasure. How many birds that feed on plant material, hard, grinders, which will help Nandu swallowing food for optimal digestion. It has attracted a lot of shiny objects, metal objects and sometimes ingested or bright. Young people consume more animal matter, than adults. Sometimes the fish will gather in rheas and eat carrion flies, but they are also known to eat dead or dying in the dry season, but not as commonly feed on vertebrates in large quantities.
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If you have to set the time for the eggs, the male is usually already in
the nest and act aggressive when approaching women. He's nest with
wings gradually relax and allow you to bend over and put the egg on the
edge of the nest. Male Roll the egg in the nest. The men are polygamous,
women are serial polyandry. In practice, this means that women move
during the breeding season, mating with the male, and the male before
they lay eggs. Nests then shared between females can contain up
to 80 eggs laid every ten women female coupling rooms about 5 to 10
eggs.
However, the average size of the coupling 26-7 eggs from different
females. Recent studies have shown that some men use subordinate males
to help protect and incubate the eggs. Rhea eggs the size of 130
mm × 90 mm (5.1 inches x 3.5 inches) and weighs 600 grams (21 ounces),
the means of communication, so that they are half the size of an ostrich
egg. The nest is a simple scrape flat and wide in a hidden place, men
sticks, grass and leaves, in the immediate vicinity of the nest to
attract a wide strip as similar to reach the neck. All the eggs hatch
within 36 hours of each other, even if the eggs in the nest, may have
only two weeks.