Since the day Mojang decided to create striders and implement them into the game, I saw them as some deformed flightless birds.
And so, by the power of Blockbench and Optifine, I've turned the red, fire-resistant walking blocks with strings into what appears to be something similar to an ostrich. This will probably make up for the 2018 biome vote's savannah additions not being added.

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Mind you, this is an Optifine resource pack, meaning that you must have the program installed in order to avoid issues with stuff like the models not appearing.