an emu named vasily, officially, vasily ivanovich, from the leningrad zoo, generally quite calm and sociablem, treating him to leaves, he just got a little nervous because of the filming, he loves visitors very much, always sticks his head out to them through the fence, but he doesn’t pinch or bite anyone. because that’s why the fence is so high that it’s quite safe, the maximum he can do is move his head strongly, yes, that is, with effort, but it’s not traumatic, these furry giants are peaceful in nature, the homeland of the emu is australia, this is the second largest bird after the african ostrich. by the way, emu and ostriches are not close relatives at all, they are from another family, cassowaries, live alone in the endemic of australia. but often graze next to each other, completely ignoring each other, they can show aggression only during the mating season, and then usually females fight, females initially seek the favor of males, in general, even arrange some kind of scuffles over the possession of the male, and after a pair is formed for a short time, mating occurs and the female