Emus are also real characters and hilarious. They can be playful, fierce and they love water!

Standing at up to 1.9 metres tall, the flightless Emu is one of the world’s largest birds. One of the first birds to be observed in Australia by Europeans, it was instantly recognised as an unusual species.

One its unusual traits is its domestic life: after the female Emu lays her dozen or so green eggs, she leaves the male to incubate them on his own, and after they have hatched, the striped chicks are also looked after by the male, with no contribution from the female. For more details check out: https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/emu/

For a short video on emu dad life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvTd59vLuM

Dad and the kids having a dip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-Q5PRSmSE

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

And also a happy father's day to the least dedicated of Aussie dads, the bush turkey.

But an unhappy father's day to the plover (idk if it was the father or mother) that was protecting the diagonally opposite corner of the roundabout from its partner and baby and threatening me when I just wanted to go past on my run…and even switched sides specifically to avoid baby.

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