How ostriches use their 'springy' legs to help them run faster and longer. By Niall Firth for MailOnline. Updated: 07:05 EST, 1 November 2010. 15 View comments. 15. View. comments. Ostriches are able to run so fast over long distances because they use half as much energy as humans do to run at their top speed.Scientists who compared ostriches and humans running discovered that the huge birds can store twice as much energy in their leg tendons as we can.o find out how an ostrich runs the researches fitted reflective markers to the joints of five humans and five tame ostriches. They then carried out a detailed analysis of their gait and movements as they ran on a custom-built running track 50 metres long.
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They appeared in their first World Series the same year, falling to their crosstown rivals, the White Sox, four games to two. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first Major League team to play in three consecutive Fall Classics, and the first to win it twice. The team has appeared in seven World Series following their 1908 title, most recently in 1945. The Cubs have not won the World Series in 107 years, the longest championship drought of any major North American professional sports team, and are often referred to as the Lovable Losers because of this distinction.