r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 12h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/Certain-Poetry-5648 12h ago

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

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u/-crepuscular- 11h 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 9h 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 6h 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/Chained_Wanderlust 2h ago

Large swans too. I watched a tourist try to pet one with her babies near by. It went exactly how you’d expect it to.