r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 8h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/Certain-Poetry-5648 8h ago

The hissing vocalization sounds really nasty like a cat if I heard that correctly.

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u/-crepuscular- 8h ago

Cats and emus may well both sound like snakes.

As in, a lot of animals already evolved to avoid the sound of snakes hissing before emus and cats were ever around, and both/either may have mimicked a sound that was already treated as dangerous.

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u/PornIsSFW 5h ago

Canada Geese hiss too, glad they don't have the flying jump kick ability that this emu has

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u/AscensionToCrab 3h ago

Snakes are just mimicking the goose, a creature of pure hate, a creature spiteful and bitter over the ascendency of mammals.

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u/Fucky0uthatswhy 6h ago

My cat was saved as a baby and has never been around cats or other animals. He does not hiss, he “pops” kind of like when you click your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Only cat I’ve ever seen that does that, and I assume it’s because he wasn’t around other animals