🐦Greater Rhea
A ema (Rhea americana), também conhecida como nandu, nandu-comum, nandu-grande, nhandu, guaripé e xuri, é uma ave da família Rheidae, nativa da América do Sul. É uma ave não voadora; e usa suas grandes asas apenas para se equilibrar enquanto corre. Os machos são os responsáveis pela incubação e o cuidado com os filhotes. A ema é considerada a maior ave brasileira. Quando ocorreram as invasões holandesas no Brasil, figurava uma ema no brasão holandês do Rio Grande do Norte (1639). Dezenas de emas vivem nos jardins da residência oficial do Presidente do Brasil, o Palácio da Alvorada (38 em 2020). Segundo o Ibama, essas emas eram mantidas sem o registro necessário para sua criação, porém foram incluídas sob guarda provisória do Presidência da República em 2002, e atualmente a Presidência possui autorização para criar as aves, oriundas de criadouros conservacionistas.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 23 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Greater Rhea
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass23 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 23 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Tail length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.6 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.31 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation36 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: low
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatGrasslandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l23 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Greater Rhea yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderRheiformes
- ›familyRheidae
- ›genusRhea
- ›speciesRhea americana
- classBirds · Aves
- orderRheiformes
- familyRheidae
- genusRhea
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderPalaeognathae
- orderRheiformes
- familyRheidae
- genusRhea
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