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Emu...looks like a trip to the hairdresser is needed :) Taken on a trip to Paignton Zoo with our grandson.
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.
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The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. The emu's range covers most of mainland Australia, but the Tasmanian, Kangaroo Island and King Island subspecies became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788.
Do you know what Emu The Handsome, Winnie The Poo, John The Baptist and Alfred the Great have in common? They all have the same middle name. Are you not emused?
From the comments: Attila the Hun, Eric the Wise, Eric the Wise Cracker, Dragon the Handsome, Jack the Knife, William the Conqueror, Vlad the Impaler, Dennis the Menace. Seems "THE" is a very common middle name.
Dromaius novaehollandiae Ave El emú común es una especie de ave estrutioniforme de la familia Dromaiidae. Es un ave no voladora, y es, después del avestruz y el casuario la tercera más pesada del mundo, aunque la segunda en altura. Es nativa de Australia y el único miembro viviente del género Dromaius. Wikipedia Nombre científico: Dromaius novaehollandiae Velocidad: 50 km / h (Máxima, Sprint) Masa Corporal: 36 - 40 kg Enciclopedia de la vida Longitud: 1,8 m Enciclopedia de la vida
Der Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) gehört neben dem Strauß, dem Kiwi, dem Kasuar oder dem Nandu zu den Laufvögeln. Er erreicht eine Höhe von bis zu 1,90 Meter und ein Gewicht von bis zu 45 kg. Seine Laufgeschwindigkeit liegt bei 40 kmh. Der Emu vertilgt Samen, Pflanzen aber auch Insekten. Bei den Emus übernehmen die Männchen das brüten und die Aufzucht der Jungen.
This farm-kept emu is easily seen from the road. If you pay attention to him he will come right up to the fence. The farm is in Cornville, Arizona. The funny thing about that name. The community was to be named after a settler named “Cohn.” The U.S. Post Office misread "Cohnville" and named it Cornville instead.
There's something distinctly odd about a walk that I do regularly. I leave my house, go south across seven fields, through a village, over a pelican crossing and into the fields. (Actually I made that last bit up about the crossing, but the rest is absolutely true.)
So I walk across the high ground above the village of East Farndon and pick up the Jurassic Way footpath, over a few stiles and down the hill on the other side where the beginnings of the Welland valley come into view, and come to a thin stretch of field, probably no more than fifty yards wide where I have to cross two stiles, and there on the first stile is this beautiful creature who paced back and forth on the other side, showing absolutely no fear of me and getting disturbingly closer with my every attempt to cross.
Bear in mind that these Emu's have very long legs and necks, so even though I'm six foot tall, their beaky faces are just about the same height as mine, and when those reptilian like eyes stare into mine as they make dinosaur like throaty noises, and to make matters worse, it's partner in crime is guarding my exit, the stile on the other side!
Sometimes I'm met there by horses who are also curious but a bit friendlier than these Emus.
So anyway, in the end I decided that I was not going to be intimidated any longer by these two and made my way over the stile into the field, and immediately it rushed towards me until I made my own loud primitive throat noises which encouraged it and it's accomplice to back off and let me pass through.
Then later I had the same again on the way home.
Several months ago I'd had another strange but wonderful interaction as I walked back at dusk, not far from the Emu field.
I'd noticed something white fluttering above the hedge some distance away and stopped in my tracks as I realised that it was an Owl and was amazed to see it fly closer until it was only two or three yards away hovering in front of me, with us both looking into each others' eyes. My camera was slung over my shoulder but there was absolutely no question of even attempting a shot. There's always something so deeply moving about coming face to face with wild creatures, and such moments are so uniquely sacred.
I also had the pleasure of coming face to face with a young Fox on this last walk which stopped and checked me out at a distance before going on our ways.
Der Große Emu (Dromaiidae, Dromaius) ist eine flugunfähige Vogelart aus der Gruppe der Laufvögel und die einzige überlebende Art der Familie der Emus. Es ist die größte Vogelart der Fauna Australiens und nach dem Afrikanischen Strauß der zweitgrößte Vertreter der Laufvögel.
Quelle : de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emus
Der Große Emu ist eine flugunfähige Vogelart aus der Gruppe der Laufvögel und die einzige überlebende Art der Familie der Emus. Es ist die größte Vogelart der Fauna Australiens und nach dem Afrikanischen Strauß der zweitgrößte Vertreter der Laufvögel.
An emu has three toes. Emus live only about 10 to 20 years. Emu chicks hatch with stripes. They turn chocolate brown and, in 12 to 14 months, both male and female emus have indigo-colored feathers.