It's also been seen and photographed at Tidbinbilla in the ACT. See Ray
Drew's image in his message at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2007-10/msg00201.html
sandra henderson
canberra
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Damian Kelly <> wrote:
>
> I have seen similar behaviour at Hattah in late 2006. In that case it was
> just after dawn so I don't think cooling off was the reason.
>
> The emu walked right across the shallow lake with just head and part of
> the neck visible for most of the time.
>
> Dog-like shaking ensued when it came out of the water.
>
> Damian
>
> On 19/12/2012, at 3:52 PM, "Euan Moore" <>
> wrote:
>
> > I have been going through a series of movie clips from our wildlife
> > monitoring camera. It was set up at the edge of a small dam on our
> property
> > in western Victoria.
> >
> > Emus were making daily visits to the dam, mainly to drink but on some
> > visits they got right into the water. This involved flopping down so
> that
> > their bodies were almost completely submerged. At times they would roll
> > over with legs going in all directions. There would occasionally be some
> > preening while in the water. After some time in the water they would
> stand
> > up, sometimes shake like a shaggy dog and leave the water. For the next
> few
> > seconds there would be a cascade of water dropping from their very
> > non-waterproof feathers.
> >
> > It could be a way of getting rid of vermin. The other possibility is
> that
> > they were cooling down as the incidents happened around the middle of the
> > day when temperatures would have been in the high 30s. I've heard of
> emus
> > swimming to cross rivers but this was deliberate bathing.
> >
> > The nearest alternative water supply was another farm dam about 1.5km
> away
> > on a neighbouring property.
> >
> > I have never seen this sort of behaviour before and wonder how common it
> is.
> > One of the advantages of the camera is that we get to see things that we
> > would not see if we were physically present.
> >
> > Euan
> >
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