A large flightless South American bird similar to an ostrich, also called a rhea.
From Portuguese 'nandu,' derived from Tupi (a Native South American language) 'nandu.' The word traveled from indigenous people to Portuguese colonizers to European languages, showing how animals get named across cultures.
Nandus were hunted so much that wild populations nearly disappeared, but then some escaped from farms in Germany and Brazil—now there are feral nandu populations thriving in places they've never lived before.
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