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Emu 1 Tidbinbilla🐦

Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCasuariiformesDromaiidae
Birds

🐦Emu

Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790)

鸸（ér）鹋（miáo）（學名：Dromaius novaehollandiae，音同“而苗”），俗稱澳洲鴕鳥，為鸸鹋属唯一的物种，是現存世上第二大的鳥類，僅次於鴕鳥。由於僅分布於澳洲，是澳洲國徽上的動物之一。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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55
Photos
5
Measurements
11
vs you
≈ half your weight
Also called
Common Emu
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
34 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Emu

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
34 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female38 kgWikidataQ93208
  • Male33 kgWikidataQ93208

Figures vary

  • 39 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Standing height
1.75 mnot stated
Details ↓

ADW: "Emus can reach a maximum height of 190 cm, with the average at 175 cm." Value = stated average; high = stated maximum. Posture not stated; for an emu, height conventionally means the standing bird.

Source: Shorter 2012, 'Dromaius novaehollandiae', Animal Diversity Web, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dromaius_novaehollandiae/ · see citation

Tail length
0.43 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.12 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.08 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.38 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
17 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
34 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Emu yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCasuariiformes
  5. ›familyDromaiidae
  6. ›genusDromaius
  7. ›speciesDromaius novaehollandiae
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderCasuariiformes
  3. familyDromaiidae
  4. genusDromaius
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderPalaeognathae
  11. orderCasuariiformes
  12. familyDromaiidae
  13. genusDromaius
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More about the Emu

Closest relative on this site
🦅 Andean Condor — last shared an ancestor ≈ 108 million years ago.
In other languages
emu (sv), Großer Emu (de), эму (ru), エミュー (ja), Emu (da), Dromaius novaehollandiae (es) … and 28 more languages
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Emu 1 TidbinbillaA close encounter (17968372636)Australia 2017 43 (42510731710)
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