Rear view

Emus in Texas, Queensland

What do you call a bunch of emus? I'm guessing it's not "a bunch".

I snapped this pic through the back of the car when I was in Texas on a job the other day. We don't see emus in our neck of the woods so I thought I could show the kids.

My dad was a surveyor. He's retired now, but when I was a kid he would often bring home random animals to show us kids. He'd come home with an echidna in a sugar bag or a scorpion in a bottle, or a massive barking spider in a jar full of petrol.

Animals were tougher in those days, being relocated didn't worry them. Except for the spider. Last I heard it was at the Queensland Museum. Still playing dead, until someone uscrews the lid.

By the time I was in late primary school we probably had a pretty diverse ecosystem in the scrub behind my parents house. If that bit of bushland was still around I could imagine the headlines - "Biologists baffled as population of Simpson Desert Dunnarts discovered on Sunshine Coast".

Not a bunch of emus, and definitely not in a sack in the back of the car from Texas to Stanthorpe.

- Cameron