HATCHING PROBLEM
EMUS AND THEIR EGGS. SYDNEY, June 23. A pair of emus at Koala Park, Sydney's popular bird and animal sancituary. have decided, after four years, Io have a. family. But. the father-to-be is making things difficult. 1 When emus have a family the male] bird sits cm the eggs. There are ten to sit on in the Koala. Park nest. Foi’| a big bird like an emu that's not a hardj
task, but. the proprietor of the park. Mr Noel Burnet, fears that when two or three of the babies are hatched the father will walk off and leave Hie other Ah'. Burnett decided the other day to, put. a. Iliermometer in the- nest to find | the correct temperature in case tho ether i had to be hatched in tin incubator. He waited until the old man | | emu, left, (be nest, and planted the thermometer among the eggs. Bui as ' soon as the old man came back, he picked up the instrument and flung it I out! J J
i Now Mr. Burnet is in a quandry. “It ho pul a smaller thermometer in. the nest the old man may swallow it. If he does not find out the right incubation temperature, some of the emu babies may not be hatched. .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1939, Page 11
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