Fri May 15, 2009A sexually-frustrated male emu is chasing a woman in the Northern Territory because it cannot find a female mate.
Patrena Arriston from Katherine, 300 kilometres south of Darwin, says her seven-year-old emu, Edward, began sitting on an empty nest last year and now chases her when she comes close to it.
"It's starting to get a bit frustrated and when I go in there to pet it or feed the chooks and stuff like that, I sort of get rounded up," she said.
"It keeps circling me and I have to get a palm frond and hold it up and sort of push it away."
She says there is a female emu 800 kilometres away but she does not have a trailer to bring it to her property.
She is hoping someone else can help deliver the female emu to her property.
"I just thought maybe if there is somebody out there who could be coming up that's got a bit of spare room and wants to put an emu in the back.
"I know trucks are pretty full, I suppose, but there might be someone out there that might be able to help us."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/15/2571311.htm
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