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It must have been a strange sight to early explorers, a bird taller than they were, something that was to become a source of food, oil, decoration and leather to make everything from footwear to wallets. The aborigine knew all about them but the European must have been stunned at first sight.
Aborigines still lived a fairly primitive life but they ensured that anything that provided both food and the material that could make tools, implements and the like. They did not need UGG boots, emu being the name of this strange bird.
Living in most part in Australia whether forest or meadow land, and even arid desert, the bird can adapt to most things, hence its survival in numbers which more than match those before the country had anything more than the indigenous population. Australia is still a vast country relative to its population but the bird and people still seem to be able to live side by side.
Occasionally they can be seen in large flocks but pairs are the norm, pairs that get together in the middle of the Southern Hemisphere summer, a few months before mating. It is the female that does the wooing, and the male that does the tending of the offspring. We often refer to Australia as down under, perhaps we should call it upside down instead! It is a continent that has developed in isolation so much of its flora and fauna is unique though distant cousins of many of the fauna exist elsewhere, in the case of this strange bird, its UGG boots lives in Africa, the ostrich, an even taller flightless bird which can tower of the largest of men and whose aggressive kick can be fatal. Like many of the wild however the problem only occurs if the wild thinks it's being threatened.
They are not regular drinkers but when they do drink, there is the unusual sight of a large bird on its knees, sometimes drinking without stopping for up to ten minutes. If they sense danger they are able to drink when standing, but they are cautious birds, rarely mixing with others so they are more likely to wait to drink, staying clear of the water source, perhaps hidden in woodland, until the danger or other species have gone.
They are however inquisitive and will go fairly close to man whatever his activity. Aussies in UGG boots, emu does not automatically see danger when in the man's Ugg Boots Sale perhaps because it is so long ago when the farming community regarded them as unwanted vermin.
Primarily a plant eater, they also eat insects, and crops and fruit if accessible and perhaps this is the sole time when man and bird come into direct confrontation. They also eat stones, or more accurately pebbles. They may have quite a weight in them at any one time. The Women's Classic Mini 5854 help in digesting the plants though their liking for charcoal cannot be explained several strange foreign objects have been found in the stomachs of dead birds.