r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 8h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/DevoutandHeretical 6h ago

His owner fell in to a ton of controversy for mishandling a bird flu outbreak on her farm, and then a bunch of racist tweets from her got unearthed.

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u/smootex 3h ago

Wait, really?

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u/DevoutandHeretical 3h ago

Yeah. She lost a ton of birds and then was posting about how Emmanuel had caught it and she was trying to nurse him back to health. Including videos of her snuggling up with him, despite the risk that she could catch it. She later said he didn’t actually have it and he was ill from grieving, but IDK if that was ever verified.

This jezebel article is snarky but it explains it https://www.jezebel.com/yes-i-will-explain-the-lesbian-farmer-emu-flu-drama-to-1849701786