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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Here is Limpy Chick, years later, all grown up, with his own chicks -- first clutch, standing in the same spot.
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    I am here. Brief update. This photo is Eric the Emu with his last clutch, the fifth of his that we observed. One of the chicks is Limpy Chick:
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    You know you are a real ratite geek when you start learning the sub-species SE
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    'They generally avoid people - but no where near as willingly as people avoid them.' Hey, Finchbreeder! My knowledge of cassowaries is next to nil -- mostly from reading here on BYC. What you are saying makes sense. There's the fact that any critter on a pasture (or in a resource-rich spot in...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    The observations of Alpha and Omega were a long time ago. These present observations, of a young clutch, are among the best we've ever had.
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    I am not grumpy, readers, just busy with other stuff. All seven chicks are now bursting into their black-head plumage, and are so tame they'll almost climb into my lap for a few sultanas. SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Finally, the power of the ratite legs. As I am Wild Emu Guy, I rarely get to handle emus -- they're wild; I can't catch them. But a couple of times I've had to nurse injured half-grown chicks. The 'drumstick' muscle of the upper leg is astonishingly powerful. It's like spring steel. And a...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Ah! Here we go! Here be your eviscerating talon!!
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Yes -- but note the annoyance I expressed above about ninnies posting blah blah blah. So, okay. Let's treat the subject seriously: forward articulation: the legs of the ratites articulate forwards -- the opposite of humans. Please take a moment over this. This allows an emu to sorta 'shoot'...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    What fun! A cassowary chick practising slash-kicks. They are a very interesting species!!!
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    So: it seems odd; but we rather often discourage folks from buying emus: it's a big big project. It's not cheap. They may live for twenty years or more. But cassowaries? Times 5 difficulty and expense
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    The second aspect is the legendary orneriness of the cassowaries. It annoys me no end that ninnies post on the Net about 'dangerous' emus, how 'an emu attacked me.' Now, ostriches are mean and big; but cassowaries are legendarily aggressive. I was sitting in the garden at dawn, feeding sultanas...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Sorry for the late reply. So, somewhere in the archives you should find 'Acqua eyes'? I'm not sure of the name, but years ago there was a member here who had captive cassowaries. But I can take a wild swing at this one. In one respect, their care is the same as for, say, an emu: secure...
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    Emu breast

    It's not her vocal sac? SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip is just to show how wonderfully tame they are becoming. They just love dried grapes -- 'sultanas' SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip, taken several days ago, is better than the one I got this morning. A page back is the Baby Dinosaur Fluffy Bum photo. There's a little fluffy toosh-feather growth happening. Very nice. Now have a look at today's clip. You can see the 'eruption' of black feathers in their tooshes and...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This is what they'll look like. (This Dad, by the way, is Limpy Chick's brother, 'Toosh Toosh.')
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    So, Number One is the top of the neck. You can see a sort of 'bursting through' of black pin feathers. In a month, those fuzzy pin feathers will extend from the neck to the top of the head -- 'black head.'
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