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The Kangaroo Island emu or dwarf emu [2] (Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus) is an extinct subspecies of emu. It was restricted to Kangaroo Island, South Australia, which was known as Ile Decrés by the members of the Baudin expedition. It differed from the mainland emu mainly in its smaller size. The species became extinct by about 1827. [3]
Emuarius is an extinct genus of casuariiform flightless bird from Australia that lived during the early Miocene and late Oligocene. It is one of two known genera of emu. [3] There are two known species in the genus, Emuarius gidju and Emuarius guljaruba. The birds in this genus are known as emuwaries. This name comes from a combination of emu ...
The Tasmanian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis) is an extinct subspecies of emu. It was found in Tasmania , where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene . As opposed to the other insular emu taxa, the King Island emu and the Kangaroo Island emu , the population on Tasmania was sizable, meaning that there were no marked ...
The King Island emu was the smallest type of emu and was about 44% or half of the size of the mainland bird. It was about 87 cm (34 in) tall. According to Péron's interview with the local English sealer Daniel Cooper, the largest specimens were up to 137 cm (4.5 ft) in length, and the heaviest weighed 20 to 23 kg (45 to 50 lb).
Another island dwarf subspecies of the emu; extinct since c. 1827. Tasmanian emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis (Tasmania, Australia, mid-19th century) Yet another island dwarf subspecies of the emu; the last wild bird was collected in 1845, but it may have survived in captivity until 1884. It may be invalid.
The bird, like other enantiornithines, didn’t have a digestive organ called a gizzard that helps modern birds crush up their food for easier digestion, “so the evolutionary pressures that led ...
The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.
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.