{"id":428072,"date":"2026-04-09T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/428072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:57:31","slug":"watch-ostrich-escaped-cafe-in-thailand-runs-nearly-10-miles-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/428072\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Ostrich escaped cafe in Thailand, runs nearly 10 miles on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 8 (UPI) &#8212; An ostrich escaped from an animal cafe in Thailand and ran nearly 10 miles on a busy highway before being safely captured.<\/p>\n<p>Isara Boriboon, who owns a cat cafe in Bang Lamung, Chon Buri, said <a href=\"https:\/\/thethaiger.com\/news\/national\/chon-buri-ostrich-runs-along-motorway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of his two ostriches<\/a>, named B1 and B2, darted through an open gate Tuesday and followed a cement truck onto the highway.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 5-month-old ostrich followed the truck onto the highway and ran nearly 10 miles down the busy road toward Rayong.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers on the road shared video of the large bird&#8217;s run alongside traffic on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Boriboon said the ostrich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattayamail.com\/news\/panic-on-highway-36-as-ostrich-runs-wild-on-pattaya-rayong-road-safely-rescued-by-locals-542751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was safely contained<\/a> by witnesses and returned home uninjured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8 (UPI) &#8212; An ostrich escaped from an animal cafe in Thailand and ran nearly 10 miles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[100,18,8386,19,17,8384,133,8385,461],"class_list":["post-428072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-eire","tag-funny","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116376282480218919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}