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Letter: Life on two legs is for these birds, too

Published 4 November 2020

From John Humble, Taroona, Tasmania, Australia

You report that humans are the only species that uses bipedalism as its primary mode of transport (10 October, p 34). This must be worrying news to ostriches and their ilk.

Issue no. 3307 published 7 November 2020

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