With an 'old-man' emu...
He's got a beak and feathers and things,
But the poor ol' feller ain't got no wings."
So goes a song on one of Lazy Harry's albums, and while it's not entirely accurate (emus do have vestigial wings), a further line is entirely true. Emu is heard to say,
"I can't fly, but I'm tellin' you
I can run the pants off a kangaroo."
Raising emus for meat and oil is growing in popularity in western Washington, and this old feller was going nowhere because he was behind a high farm fence beside the Foothills Trail, clearly marked with signs saying "Do Not Feed The Animals." As I passed back by in the afternoon, a family of four was sitting on the grass poking bits of granola bar through the mesh.
The photo is a composite of two. I couldn't decide which was his "best side."
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