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There's a fairly successful(?) and long-running Ostrich and Emu operation near where I live. It's a tourist attraction though and they make their money chargin
by jonah 3y ago
There's a fairly successful(?) and long-running Ostrich and Emu operation near where I live.
It's a tourist attraction though and they make their money charging admission and selling handfuls of food so people can feed the birds.
- nytesky 3y agoGOF? When those birds peck at the food, you can see how they could pierce a scull with that speed and mass.
- jemmyw 3y agoI like Emu. Sure they could do a lot of damage if they attacked you, but I've not experienced one being aggressive. They're either scared or curious and gentle. I've got a video of playing "do you get the food or do I grab the beak"
- pvaldes 3y agoI've meet a man that was about to get eviscerated by a free roaming domestic emu. The bird was domesticate, docile, curious about humans, smart and a little uncanny. Some day, his dog started a playful fight with the bird, the game got more serious and the man, worried by the dog, tried to stop it and put himself between dog and emu. The belt received the single hit so instead to have an opened belly, velociraptor style, he just had a leather belt severed in two. In a second. Really lucky man. He got rid of the bird not longer after that. The progressive disappearing of Emus and ostriches after a peak in popularity suggest that other farmers also had the same reveal one by one.