ostrich

Or maybe saying an ostrich is a horse isotope.

A police officer peaking around his blindfold at an ostrich with its head buried in the sand?

Caligula famously threw a banquet once consisting of thousands of flamingo tongues, camel heels, and roast ostrich.

Unfortunately the CFO of that business decided to go for the ostrich strategy (after all the monster model impressed investors).

For what it's worth, an ostrich egg yolk is a single cell with a volume of about 500 cubic centimeters.

I have been using the tried and true ostrich technique to avoid the topic (the whole systemd debate).

More importantly an ostrich can do 45 MPH which is far faster than this.

Hollywood (and by extension, other large content producers) have the most sincere form of Ostrich Syndrome[0] that I know of.

Private Baldrick: I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.

I think that most of us understand more about ostrich than about virus.

I suspect the ostrich strategy rarely works out well in the end.

Some small errors spotted, num 24 lynx: is myxomatosis, not myxomotosis num 20: somali ostrich: scientific name is Struthio molybdophanes.

Embraced even, since treating them as “an exception” is tantamount to the proverbial ostrich poking its head into the sand.

Well, the question is "fit for what?" A male ostrich is obviously not very fit to flee predators, so people who think only in terms of survival have a hard time understanding how it could evolve.

So, "a paper" and "a gigantic ostrich juggling American Space Kangaroo"?

Yelling "personal responsibility!" while having been relatively lucky in life (if you're active on HN, you're one of the lucky few among your 8 billion peers) feels like ostrich syndrome to me.

Ostrich didn't, to the disappointment of a number of early investors.

I have eaten quite a few gamey animals in my life (Gator, Yak, Goat, Bison, Kangaroo and Ostrich).