An emu comments: We have nothing to do with that side of the family.Six-foot birds are running amok in the Shropshire countryside attacking people. The rheas, which are a relative of the emu, are believed to have escaped from farmland in Ashford Carbonell near Ludlow.
A group of them has set up camp in a field near Richards Castle.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Rural Shropshire terrorised by escaped six-foot birds
From the Shropshire Star:
Terrorised by rheas?
ReplyDeleteI think not.
Richards Castle is an ideal sort of spot for an encampment.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the rheas with their neat bell tents in a horseshoe around the campfire.
If these rheas are really 6 foot in height there must be one of two explanations:
ReplyDeletea) they've been genetically-modified
b) they're standing on a box.
Rheas reach 51" in height.