1. Diet
Emus isan omnivore that means that they eat both plants and other animals. The
emu will eat so many different types of fruit, insects, flowers and they will also
eat seeds to. The other food that they will eat is grains, berries, soft shoots, grubs
or any other food that can be found in their habitat. When there is enough food
in the area and then the emu will store very large amount of fat that will normally
be placed in their bodies. They will all need this fat s that it can help them to
survive when they are searching for food. The food that the emus will eat the
most is green herbage and those types of food are grass, flowers, seeds in other
stuff but they will also eat insects to like they will eat grasshoppers, A emu will
normally drink only one or twice in one day. The main food that they will eat the
most is seeds, berries, shoots and they will also eat insects as well. They will stay
in the same area if there is a enough of food for them to eat so that they can
travel in very long distances. The emu will eat so many different types of plants
and fruit but it really depends on the type of season it is. They will also eat
different types of bugs and the type of bugs that they will eat is grasshoppers,
beetles and they will also eat crickets. They will also eat pebbles and stones this
will help the emu to digest their food so that their food can go down their
stomach. The emu plays a very important role in the ecosystem that is due to
their diet. This will help them by fertizing the soil by using their seed-carrying
dropping.
Habitat/Range
The emu can be found on so many of the places that are on the mainland that is
on the continent of Australia. These birds live in so many different types of
habitats that are all over Australia and those laces are forests, grassy places and
they can also live on desert places as well. The places where the emu will live in
are places that are in Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Solomon island and they
can also be found in Philippines. These birds can also be found in open forests as
2. well and they can also be found in grassy plains to. The emu lives all over the
continent of Australia and they can also be found in places that are in the woods,
scrubland, the other place where they can be found in are desert areas and all of
these places that the emu lives in are all in the continent of Australia and they can
also be found all over the continent. The emus are found on the mainland of
Australia. The Emu can be found on so many different types of habitats that are
right in the mainland of Australia and those places that they live in that are in this
continent are deserts and dense forest habitats. The parts of Australia where
these birds live in but it really depends on the species like the paler sub-species
that live in southeast Australia and in North Australia . The darker subspecies live
in the southwest of Australia and the type of habitats that they live is plains and in
open country as well. The other habitats where these birds live in is sparsely
wooded level plains , Eucalypti forest, desert and they can also live in shrub
lands.
Size/Weight
The size of an Emu is about 6 feet (185 cm) tall and they can weight about 110
pounds (50 kg). These birds can be even bigger than the tallest person. The other
size of these very big birds is 4.9 to 6.2 feet (1.5 to 1.9 meters) and this is how tall
they are and they can also weight about 66 to 121 pounds (30 to 55 kilograms).
This is another weight for aemu. The emu Is known to be the most biggest bird in
the world. The second largest bird in the world is the ostrich and the emu can
grow about 6 feet in a height and they can weight about 100 pounds. The other
size on how big these birds are and that is about 6 ½ feet and 120 pounds. The
emu can stand about 1 .5 to 2 meters that is how tall that these birds are and they
can weight about 45 kg. The males and the females may look like but they are
totally different from each other and that is the females are a lot bigger than the
males are. These birds can stand about at least 1 . 5 – 1. 9 m (5 -6.25 ft.) that is
the height of these birds and they can weigh about 30 to 60 kgs (66 – 130 lbs.)
These birds can also be tall as 1.5 to 2 meters tall. The other height that these
birds can stand for is 2 meters tall. The females are so much bigger than the males
3. are and the females can weight about 40 kilograms and the males can weight
about 36 kg.
Life span
The emu can live about 10 to 20 years when they are in living in their natural
habitat and when they are living in a zoo than they can live for 35 years. These
birds can also live about 5 to 10 years but this is their life span when they are in
the wild. These birds can also live for 10 to 20 years. They can also live about 20
years as well. When they are living in the wild than they can live till 5 or 10 years
and they will live a lot longer when they are living in a zoo or living in a game
preserve. The emu will normally live for 10 to 20 years. It is not normal for a emu
to live until they are 30 years old this is normally their life span when they are
living in a zoo, These birds are known to be very versatile and they will easily to
adapt to any different types of environments that is in Australia. They can live for
a very long time when they are in captivity.
1 interesting facts
The emu has very small useless wings so that means they can’t fly. These birds
may not be flyers but they have very long legs that can be very powerful. These
birds will travel in very long distance and they can go very fast to like they can run
about 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour) and they can go for a quite
distance. These are the only birds in the world that has calf muscles. The emu
very fast runner and their total speed is when they are running is 40 mph in short
burst. When these birds are running they can run about 9 feet. These birds are
not just good at running they are also very good at swimming to. Emus are very
fast at running and they can run about 50 kph and on a way how they run is by a
bouncy and swaying motion. The emus is an very nomadic bird that there are
some that can travel about hundred kilometers. The emu is a very fast runner
and they can be faster than 48 km 1 hr (30 mph). They are also very good at
4. swimming if they have to do something that has to do with water. On the bill of
the emu is very broad and soft and they will use their bills so that they can browse
and so that they can also graze as well. The best time that they will move faster
when there is food in the areas or when the males are sitting on the eggs. When
there is food in the area than they will be able to store so many fat so that they
can grow much faster, The emu is a very fast runner ir can run about 30 mph (50
kph) they are also very good at swimming to. The emu is the only bird in the
world that has an calf muscle in them. These very strong legs can help these birds
to propel 7 feet into the air.
2 interesting facts
The feathers of emu can be very loose and they also have a very simple design on
them. The feathers are just like hair that is because the feathers can grow from
follicles. On the feathers of these birds there are knit barbs that are located on
the feathers that are on the emu and they are widely spaced on all over the
feathers of the emu and these feathers do not have hooks on them and these
hooks will normally be attach to the other burbs instead on having the hooks
attach to the burbs the emus feathers will just have each of the barbs hanging
very loose and they have to be because it makes the feathers look like hair . The
other birds that are ratites they will normally share the design that is on their
feathers. When the emu’s feathers starts to grow a new set of feathers than they
will almost have an black color on them. But when the sun is out then the sun will
normally make the black feathers go away because the sun will make it fade away
and when it does fade it away than instead on having a black color on their
feathers will turn into an grayish brown color but the shafts and the tip of the
feathers will as black. The feathers on the emu are very water proofed than the
other bird species in the wild. The feathers of these birds are not soft instead on
being soft the feathers will normally will normally have an stiff touch and the
feathers can also have an rattled this will help the emu when they are facing a
predator the rattle will help the emu to scare the predator away like a dingo. The
feathers that is on the emus bodies they have special feathers on them and those
5. feathers are being are growing every follicle that is how their feathers grow.
These birds are flightless birds and that means their feathers are not build to fly.
The feathers have a dirty brown color on them. The emu is all cover with feathers
and their feathers are thick and they are also drooping feathers. The color of
these feathers isa dark brown and grey brow and their feathers can be very long
to. The feathers that are on their head are very short and downy to.
3 interesting fact
The legs of the emu are very long and very stalky and they will use their legs to
help them with their movement when they are traveling on there feet they only
three toes on them and they are not webbed. These legs are made to help the
emu to run. The calls that these birds make can be very loud and the type of
sounds that they will use is a very loud booming sound. The calls that they make a
are drumming and grunting sounds. These sounds can be heard over two
kilometers-away. The emu can make the booming sound in an inflatable neck sac.
The emu will show a lot of feelings when they feel like they are threatened or
exited and on a way on how they express these emotions is that they will make
very loud noises. The females will use air sacs that are located in their throats that
can make a very deep drumming sound and they males will make a different
sound that the female makes. The male will make an harsher sound and they will
also make an very low rumblings and they can also make a belly grunt sound as
well. These are the type of sounds as well. These are the type of sounds that the
emu will use to show that they are being threatened or they are excited about
something. When these birds are traveling they can go for very long distances so
that they can look for food. The emus that live in the western part of Australia
those emus will usually migrate and they will normally travel to the north when
the summer season comes and when the winters comes than they will travel to
the south. The emu does not travel alone they will travel in pairs and they can
also travel in very big flocks to sometimes. Inside the throats of these birds there
6. is an pouch in them that is a part of the emus windpipe and they will use this so
that they can get contact to other emus that can be somewhere in the areas.
When the pouch is inflated than they will male so many different types of sounds
that the emu and the type of sounds that they will use is an deep booming,
drumming and they will also use grunting sounds to. The only times that they do
use these sounds is during courtship or when it is time for them to look for a
mate and these sounds can be heard over 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away. These
birds will also hiss as well but they use that so that they can scare a predator like a
dingo. The emu is part of a family of flightless birds that are called Ratites. There
are so many species of Ratites that have become extinct. The Ratites that are still
alive today is the emu, the ostrich, cassowary , kiwi and rhea these are all of the
ratites that are still alive today.
Responding
The time that the emu will mate and stay together is through the fall season. The
females will start to lay her eggs that will be the time when the two of the birds
will start to help each other with their parents. The males are the once that make
the nest and they are the ones that will sit on them to and he will sit on them for
two months. This is the most hardest part of the males life that is because it will
lose a third of their body weight. This is what will happen during the incubation
period this is a very hard time for the male because they will use a third of their
body weight. The only time that he does get up is when he has to turn the eggs
around. Usually it is the females job to take care of the babies but if you are an
emu it is the males job to take care of the chicks will start to leave the nest in a
few days. The chicks will depends on their father to teach them the lessons that
they will need for when they get older and the lessons that the father will teach
them is how to look for food and to watch out from predators. They will stay with
him for 18 months. A female emu will about lay about 8 to 12 dark green eggs and
these eggs are being laid in a nest that will be built on the ground and the nest
7. will be made out of twigs, dirt, vegetation and the other stuff that they will need
to make their nest. The female will leave right after she has laid the eggs into the
nest. When the females is gone. Then it will be the fathers turn to take care of the
chicks. He will also incubate on the eggs he will continue to do that for 2 months
until the chicks are ready to come out of the eggs. The emus will normally come
together in the summer and the time that they mate is during the colder months
of the year. The females have blue skin that is on their neck and the feathers of
the females can also turn into a darker brown. When the female is ready to mate
the first that she will do is to make a special call that will tell a male that she is
ready to mate. The female is not the one that will make the nest that will be the
males job. The nest of the emu is made out of bark, grass, sticks and leaves and
they will make these nests in a hollow that is on the ground. Every second of the
third day that will be the time when the female will start to lay very big thick-
shelled that is dark-green that is the color of their eggs. The weight of the eggs is
1 pound (0.5 kg). The males will start to become broody after the seventh egg.
The male will sit on the eggs so that he can incubate he will continue to do that if
the female lays more eggs. A female will normally lay 8 or 10 eggs. The male will
stay on in the for the next eight weeks. The male is surviving on his body fat and
at every morning that is dew that he can reach. The only time that the male does
move is when the male has to turn the eggs and he normally does this 10 times in
one day. The other job that the male does is that he has to protect the eggs from
so many different types of predators and the type of animals that will kill an emu
egg are goanna, eagles, and hawks these are the type of animals that will kill a
emu egg. The nest of the emu will normally be made in places that are in a
shallow hole that is by a bush. These nests are made out of leaves, grass and bark
that is being lined up on the nest. The account of eggs that the females will lay is 4
to 20 eggs. The color of these eggs has a more greenish and brown color on them.
The females will only lay a group of eggs at one time. The chicks (also called emu
babies). The incubation period for these birds is in 8 weeks. The male will keep
the eggs warm and the father will also care about them to and he will continue to
do this for 1 ½ years. The emus will reach maturity in about 2 or in 3 years. The
size of the egg is 5 x 3.5 inches. The weight of the egg is really 1 to 1.4 pounds
(450 to 650). When the emu first come out of the egg the they will be bigger than
8. 9.6 inches (25 centimeters) that is all the way up to the tail. The emu will start to
come together in the summer which is in December. The emus will start to mate
in a climate that is cold and it will only last for a few months later. The account of
eggs that the female will lay is 20 eggs but their average account of eggs for an
emu is really 12 eggs. The eggs will start to hatch in a couple of months. The male
will not eat a lot of food during the mating process and it will be the one that will
be sitting on the eggs. When the chick starts to come out of the egg. Then the
male will lose a lot of body weight. And will live on his body fat.
Survival Status
The most common place to find a emu is in the mainland of Australia. But there
are so many areas that has a large human population that are taking over them.
The smallest populations are going through and the dangers that they are facing
that the loss of their habitat and fragmentation. The emu is really not under
threat but there will be times that there will be in a drought for these birds, The
numbers of these birds are decline in western Australia. The dangers that the emu
faces in west Australia and those dangers is that there are so many farms that
are killing them for meat. The other reasons farmers will kill them is because is for
their feathers so that they can make oil and leather out of them. The emu used to
live on the island of Tasmania but it does live there anymore that is because it is
extinct in the year of 1865. This has been followed but the arrival of Europeans
came to Australia during those times. The emus that live on the mainland of
Australia this has been very affected by humans. The emus that live on the east
coast of Australia or being kicked out of these types of areas because there is no
room for them because the human population is growing a lot. The other problem
that the emu is facing so many dangers in the Australia’s outback there is a
problem for the emu over here because of agricultural development and water
provided that is for the livestock that lives in this part Australia. Then these birds
are being sent into new regions. But these regions are to dry for these birds to
9. survive in. The other threats that the emu faces is that they are getting ridden
over by lots of different types of vehicles. There are so many people that raising
them for meat, oil and for leather. The population of the emus is totally stabled.
The other threats that these birds are facing is with droughts and wildfires.
Message from Author
We must do something to help and to save these amazing animals. These birds
need all the help that they can get. The emu has the right to continue living on
this planet. They are doing their part in nature and we should find a place in
nature to. This is a really big planet that is filled with wonders and discoveries that
are just waiting to be found. We have to make this planet a safe place for us for
the other creatures that we share it with. This is our beautiful home and it
deserves to have a second change to live for the next generation to come on this
planet. There is a really big, bright and beautiful future that is what will happen if
we find a way to project our planet. Our world and our home will be a much
happier and a mush cleaner place to live on. We have to make room for other
living creatures to. God made animals for reasons just like he made us. That is
what I know about the emu. If we all work together we can save the emu and the
other animals that live on this planet to. Together we can make a difference in
our beautiful planet that we all share. Thank you so much for doing your part.
With you reading and enjoying this book. You are helping your favorite animal
and its survival in the world. Without your support and love and respect. Your
favorite animal will have a chance to make a comeback. This is a huge thank you
for helping these animals and everything else that has to do with nature. Nature it
is very important. Without nature our planet will not be so beautiful and full of
wonder that can open a person’s eyes to world that they never had imagined.
Nature thanks you for your support.
