{"id":370128,"date":"2026-04-08T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:20:24","slug":"ostrich-escapes-animal-cafe-sprints-down-thai-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370128\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostrich escapes animal cafe, sprints down Thai highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A pet ostrich went for a speedy jaunt down a busy Thai highway on Tuesday, before being returned safe and sound to its enclosure at an animal-themed cafe.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The six-month-old male ostrich raced along a three-lane highway in Thailand\u2019s coastal Chonburi province as cars and trucks sped by the flightless bird, according to a video posted by a man who was driving directly behind it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWho lost an ostrich on the road? Come get him. He runs so fast,\u201d the motorist, Chairat Sompong, is heard saying in the video.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chairat, 33, later said that he was driving home when he came upon a traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAt first, I thought it was an accident but when I drove close, I saw an ostrich running in the middle lane,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The ostrich \u201clooked afraid and panicked\u201d, Chairat said, adding that he tried to make it move to the left lane, where it eventually stopped running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pet ostrich went for a speedy jaunt down a busy Thai highway on Tuesday, before being returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[193688,193691,193687,193690,193689,111,139,69,193693,193692,147,4327,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-370128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-b1","9":"tag-b2","10":"tag-chairat-sompong","11":"tag-chonburi-province","12":"tag-itsara-boriboon","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-ostrich","17":"tag-pattaya","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-thailand","20":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}