"Cissie," the male emu at the Newtown Zoo, after sitting on the makeshift nest and a clutch of about a dozen eggs for nine weeks, had this morning hatched out two emu chicks and more are expected within the next two or three days. The domestic arrangements of the emu family are a trifle topsyturvy in that the male bird does the monotonous work of hatching the eggs. The chicks are about the size of bantams and are very lively on their feet immediately after hatching.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 10
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