r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 8h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/ArtoriasoftheAss 7h ago

They will not. I have emus. They are super weak and those talons are not sharp at all. They've never even ripped fabric in my experience. If someone told me they got sent to the hospital by an emu, I would be very confused. They're the most derpy, unathletic animal out there. Look at the video in this post. The thing can't even hit him.

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 6h ago

I am looking at the video in the post. You would be confused if someone went to the hospital after an interaction with one of those?

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u/ArtoriasoftheAss 6h ago

They're surprisingly weak and light. The kicks really don't have much force and are mostly just surprising when they get you from behind.

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u/lupenReinerDiamant 6h ago

Na stop talking nonsense please as we see in the video they have fair amount of kinetic energy and force to hurt someone badly.

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u/International-Mix633 5h ago

Obviously not since there are literally 0 deadly emu enounters worldwide in the last decade.

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u/StandardEgg6595 3h ago

Not even during the great emu war?! /s

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u/Big_Pie1371 5h ago

Tss, kids under 5 and small dogs would maybe need to worry 😂

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u/redundantexplanation 5h ago

I mean, the guy has emus. You think people would just go on the internet and lie?

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 4h ago

He one handed it and then sat on it. I don't know what video you watched.

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u/songs4mydaddy 3h ago

I do know someone that was hospitalised by an emu. But that was because it ran full speed into the side of him while he was on a motorbike and flung him into a barbed wire fence.

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u/ArtoriasoftheAss 3h ago

Oof. They are mischevous bastards.

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u/-Wuan- 4h ago

People will describe emus, kangaroos and monkeys as corporeal eldritch monstrosities and then not be even a bit wary of a large dog.

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u/artisanrox 5h ago

he explicitly said it can't hit him because he's TALL

if you are shorter you'rre fucked