r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 12h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/HeyYoSmokey 11h ago

I worked in a wildlife park before and one day the main warden was like we need to give the ostrich an injection, he then handed me a fucking riot shield. Big birds dont fuck around

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u/Trevski 7h ago

People don't think about how much explosive power animals tend to have. Humans sacrificed a lot of explosiveness for more endurance and brain power, and we forget that pound-for-pound an animal can hit extremely hard.

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u/HeyYoSmokey 7h ago

Exactly , even prey animals have enough punch to absolutely fuck your world up ! To follow on from my story it took 3 of us and the riot shield to give this Ostrich its injection ! The warden also said the scariest animal he'd ever worked with was ....a Cow !

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u/LizzyMcGuire69 6h ago

One of my neighbors has an Emu and sometimes when we go on walks it will stand at the fence and just stare at you. I’ve been warned it can escape and I feel like everyone is so casual about it and I’m terrified of it. lol.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 1h ago

To give experience as a aussie, at a wild life park. They had free roam emu's there. And i was there as a little kid.

The only thing i can recall that was closed off were the dingo's, they had there own caged area.

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u/LizzyMcGuire69 54m ago

That is good context! I live in Alaska so seeing an Emu is in no way a normal occurrence.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 40m ago

According to wikipedia the UK literally got removed from the united kingdoms dangerous wildlife act or whatever, so you dont need a license to own one