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Emu grunting and hissing; note the inflating throat Emus. Western NSW, 1976. The vocalisations of emus mostly consist of various booming and grunting sounds. The booming is created by the inflatable throat pouch; the pitch can be regulated by the bird and depends on the size of the aperture.
Warmer water evaporates quicker, bringing more transfer of heat energy from the ocean to the air. This means that the hurricane then has more energy, so has stronger winds and has more rain, as ...
The runaway emus, named Thelma and Louise, escaped from their home in Loris, a city about 100 miles northeast of Charleston about three months ago, owner Sam Morace told CBS News on Friday. Thelma ...
Male size also indicates his protective abilities. Similar to the emperor penguin, male ratites incubate and protect their offspring anywhere between 85 and 92 days while females feed. They can go up to a week without eating and survive only off fat stores. The emu has been documented fasting for as long as 56 days. [8]
The blue color is sometimes wrongly attributed to Rayleigh scattering, which is responsible for the color of the sky. Rather, water ice is blue for the same reason that large quantities of liquid water are blue: it is a result of an overtone of an oxygen–hydrogen (O−H) bond stretch in water, which absorbs light at the red end of the visible ...
The emus' owner, Sam Morace, addressed the recent emu sightings in a Nov. 12 Facebook post on a local group page, confirming there are two emus and noting that they "got loose 3 months ago."
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But if the emus were that easy to catch they would be home already." The large, flightless creatures are the second-largest living bird, with an average height of more than 5 1/2 feet.