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the bird that beat Australia's army in an actual war and never apologized
means A large flightless Australian bird with long legs and shaggy brown feathers, the second-tallest living bird after the ostrich.
from Likely borrowed in the 16th–17th centuries from Portuguese 'ema,' a word the Portuguese applied to large flightless birds such as cassowaries and cranes, possibly itself from an Arabic or Moluccan source. English sailors and naturalists later attached the name to the Australian bird. The neat-sounding claim that 'emu' comes from an Arabic word for 'large bird' is uncertain — the trail goes cold somewhere in the Age of Sail.
- war record
- Won the 1932 Emu War against soldiers with machine guns
- speed
- Sprints up to 50 km/h on bare desert
- can't fly
- Earthbound but second-tallest bird alive
- dad duty
- Males incubate eggs for eight foodless weeks
- two-way knees
- Powerful legs kick forward, backward, and gut fences
great emu war — 1932 australian military operation against 20,000 emus in western australia
dreamtime emu — aboriginal constellation and creation story across australian indigenous cultures