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The main predator of emus today is the dingo, which was originally introduced by Aboriginals thousands of years ago from a stock of semi-domesticated wolves. Dingoes try to kill the emu by attacking the head. The emu typically tries to repel the dingo by jumping into the air and kicking or stamping the dingo on its way down.
The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Dingo attacks on humans are rare in Australia, and when they do occur are generally on young children and small teenagers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, dingoes are much more of a danger to livestock, especially to sheep and young cattle. [ 3 ]
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In 1932 many emus moved into farm territory in Western Australia, with the army called in to dispatch them in the so-called Emu War. Some attacks noted include in 1957 an emu charged a car, [ 15 ] in 1904 an emu attacked a dog's owner after the dog attacked it, [ 16 ] in 1873 an emu attacked children and a woman at Johnstone Park, Geelong . [ 17 ]
Emmanuel Todd Lopez (born 2014 or 2015) is an emu and TikTok personality. He lives on the hobby farm Knuckle Bump Farms in South Florida with his caretaker, Taylor Blake. Emmanuel has gone viral for TikToks in which he interrupts Blake or knocks over the camera, to which Blake often responds, "Emmanuel, don't do it!" Blake became a content ...
Two large emus on the loose in South Carolina ruffled the feathers of locals a week after dozens of monkeys escaped from a research facility in the Palmetto State.
There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but ...