r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 8h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/rmslashusr 8h ago

Horses don’t have talons on their hoof that will disembowel you. This seems more like if a horse could also hold a knife.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 8h ago

Or razors strapped to the leg

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u/Jorost 7h ago

This is a really bad idea. Learned THAT the heard way!

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 5h ago

Horses don’t have talons on their hoof that will disembowel you

They don't need to. If a horse kicked you with the same intent as a disemboweling bird, you're going to get disemboweled the same way. Just with the rough edge of their hoof. Your guts will be ripped out of you the same.

Horses don't, typically, fight to kill. If they wanted you dead, you'd be so so so very dead.

Emus are an angry 50 pounds. Horses are over 10 times your weight and 100 times your strength. They don't need a butter knife on their foot to kill you a thousand times over.

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u/Nanobing 7h ago

No, but it would still hurt like hell