Rob Nixon on Ostriches

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Rob Nixon grew up near the ostrich farms of South Africa.  He tells Steve Paulson about the 19th century fashion craze for ostrich plumes and the fortunes it created. And he remembers playing chicken with obstreperous ostriches with twenty two inch talons!  Nixon’s book about ostriches and the ostrich trade is “Dream Birds.”