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The fig trees do not produce as they used to -- long story. But a lot of emus know about them. And they approach them from the north, the 'bush side.'
So this sort of incursion -- the figs are unripe but the emus still scoff them down -- is typical. Anything from one to twenty emus will 'operate' against the home team from down behind the fig tree.
We have watched interactions like this with binoculars from the ridge cap of the house. It's an excellent way of getting a sense of the size of emu world. Sometimes eight or ten emus will operate over three or four days, skirting the house-clearing from in the bush as the home team stands guard ‘opposite’ them on the edge of the clearing.
So this sort of incursion -- the figs are unripe but the emus still scoff them down -- is typical. Anything from one to twenty emus will 'operate' against the home team from down behind the fig tree.
We have watched interactions like this with binoculars from the ridge cap of the house. It's an excellent way of getting a sense of the size of emu world. Sometimes eight or ten emus will operate over three or four days, skirting the house-clearing from in the bush as the home team stands guard ‘opposite’ them on the edge of the clearing.
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