5 child emus get out of a Honda Match …

The scene at a Whitehorse-area farm earlier this week was like one thing straight out of a youngsters’s e book as a flock of child emus — awkward-legged and long-necked — poured from a Honda Match like a clown automotive.

The comical exit was additionally a second of deep reduction for his or her proprietor, Hilary Obermair. The flock of 5 birds had escaped from their pen on Annie Lake Highway.

“I believe the primary one was hesitant and had resigned to residing in a Honda Match. However after the primary one got here out, they form of simply waterfalled themselves out of it,” laughed Obermair, including she’s discovered two essential classes from the ordeal.

“By no means underestimate a Match, and test your fences.”

It was because of a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend, who noticed them on the street a ways away that Obermair’s companion managed to trace the hapless birds and chase them down. Emus can run as much as 50 kilometres an hour, however fortunately these had gotten themselves penned in once more on the other aspect of a barbed wire fence.

Her companion needed to tie the wires aside so the birds may hop via.

Then he wrestled them, one after the other, into the again of his automotive.

After that, it was “complete chaos,” the couple instructed CBC. Although they’re nonetheless very younger, the birds are fairly giant. However they made it again to their farm with all their home windows intact and comparatively little mess within the again.

The couple has been elevating the critters since Could, shortly after they hatched.

“They are a actually cool animal,” Obermair famous. “They’re dumb as snot, however they had been all from the identical clutch. So that they’d grown up as infants collectively and I wasn’t too anxious about them getting separated, as a result of they simply stick collectively. The collective noun is a mob of emus.”

The birds spherical out the couple’s menagerie of critters on their passion farm.