Flightless & Fast In The Nairobi National Park One fine afternoon, I drove into the park from the East gate. An ostrich was walking quickly parallel to the road. So I drove slowly forward towards him, the ostrich responded by increasing its pace to a steady jog, and then began to run as I drove along at about 30km/h, this continued for over a kilometre as he seemingly, tirelessly ran slightly ahead of the vehicle over the grass next to the road.