Emu and chicks, August 2021
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2021
- Emus mate between April and June, and the females court the males rather than vice versa, with females aggressively fighting for mates. After laying, most females leave the nesting area, while the male incubates the eggs. She may mate with other males and lay in multiple nests so as many as half the chicks in a brood may not be fathered by the incubating male. In a good season, a female emu might lay three clutches with different males. The male incubates the eggs alone for 8 weeks, during which time he does not eat, drink, or defecate, and stands only to turn the eggs, which he does about ten times a day. When the chicks hatch, they will stay with the male and he will defend them and teach them to forage for food.
Since European colonisation of Australia, three subspecies of emu have been hunted out of existence. 
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This is wonderful!! I've never seen a pic of an emu with chicks, let alone a video! I also never knew that dad is the caregiver and mom is the party girl...🤣
Hi Sherry, we are absolutely stoked too - when I opened the file I actually whooped with joy!
Aussie dads are legends ❤
Hello OG, damn straight :)
Dad skills level: Emu!
Hello Nathan, I like your thinking.
Thank you for providing the information on the Emu - interesting. It’s good to know they have a refuge with you.
Hello Dorothy, thank you for taking the time to make a kind and encouraging comment. I hope you are having a great week :)
I love our emus, they can also 'throw' their 'voice' their 'boom' so you are unaware where their 'noise' comes from too... they are wonderful 'dad' birds/animals... even hatching the eggs! thanks so much for this video...
Hello Tas my friend, great to hear from you. I hope winter is treating you well and you are staying safe.
What an amazing bird! I love dad rearing the babies. He's a good papa!💕
Hello Katherine, agreed! It's also kind of cool that for at least some species, girls just want to have fun ;)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge hahaha 🤣 so true. I understand ostriches are similar to emu in the child rearing department: the males do everything after the females lay the eggs.
Emu chicks are really cute! Thanks for sharing this wonderful sighting with us! 🤗
Omg I get so excited when you upload a new video 👍🏻! Look at those precious fluffy babies 🥰! Thanks for sharing, it made my day 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Hello Summ3r, thank you so much for your encouragement and continuing support. I hope you are staying safe and having a marvellous week
Interesting I had no idea emu dad's were so great and did so much work!
😍😍😍 They are so tiny
They're stunning. I've never seen emus with chicks in the wild; the last time I saw wild emus was near Queanbeyan when I was a child. I went to Uluru recently and the emus had abandoned the area due to hunting and the pollution of all the waterholes around Uluru caused by tourists defecating and discarding batteries up the top.
disgraceful behaviour, it should be far more monitored for this type of disgusting behaviour, I mean, why not!?
How is it that as a species we manage to find a way to ruin absolutely everything? A battery would almost certainly be mistaken as a fruit or nut and ingested, and as far as I am concerned, hunting is only "sport" if the hunted can shoot back.... make it a fair contest, like for like, and all participants have the same "sporting" chance of making it out alive.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge the batteries are left over from the days when tourists could climb Uluru. They pollute the water indefinitely because of the rain. There are also algae blooms from the literal shit up there.
Humans... wonderful species.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge oh and kangaroos have largely left as well, because of water but also because we introduced a type of African grass which is inedible and outcompetes all the edible food.
Thanks for posting this. Hope everything is going well Down Under 😎👍
What an interesting video! I had no idea this is such a large bird and that there is a roll reversal. I always enjoy your posts.
Hello Judy, thank you for your support and encouragement. I hope you are having a great week. Stay safe!
So cool thanks
Hello RfsI, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I hope you are having a marvellous week.
0:48 ... six months?!!!?
I know right? A ridiculous growth rate. The protein intake would have to be enormous.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge Thanks .. I was totally blown away when you said that. And yes; all the while thinking of the fat grubs that they'd need.
Let it be known that the Australian military lost in the Great Emu War
They eat insects? Here where I live the Green Cat Birds eat insects but recently the local lillipillis were in abundant fruit, absolutely loaded, they came and ate heaps.
Hello Bec, emus are true omnivores and eat whatever is on the menu, but they need a LOT of protein to sustain their huge size. Given the lack of winter fruits in the area, I'm guessing that you are right and they are mostly eating insects; most of the carnivore poo we are finding at the moment (from dingoes and feral cats) is full of beetle parts.
Did you see the size of that chicken!!!!!
I'll pay that.