Still, despite their differences, emus and ostriches do have similarities, and so they remain tangentially related to each other, since they are both flightless birds that are part of the ratite group as mentioned earlier. Which practically makes them cousins. This post originally appeared on Quora.
Click here to view. The female then mates with another male. Male ostriches fight to create a harem of five to seven females. Eggs are laid in communal nests. Emu and ostrich chicks are precocial, meaning they hatch with down feathers and open eyes, and leave the nest in a matter of days.
Ostriches and emus are speedy creatures. An emu can run 25 mph and sprint at 30 mph. Ostriches can run up to 42 miles per hour. Ostrich races, with riders on the birds' backs, are still popular. Both birds lay large eggs; the ostrich lays the largest of any bird. After the female has laid her eggs they become the responsibility of the males and the males incubate them while turning them upto 10 times a day.
During this period of incubation the males do not move out of the nest and does not eat or drink for the entire incubation period of 56 days. The chicks stay with the fathers for the first five to six months and around the same area for the first two years.
The ostrich male would generally take over six to seven females during the breeding period. All the females in the group lay their eggs in the same nest. The dominant female lays her eggs first.
The eggs are incubated by the males and the females in turns with the females during the day and males during the night. This provides a natural camouflage to the nest with the females blending in the ground and the males black color blending in the night. The males defend the hatchlings and teach them to feed, however, very few survive the predators. Summary 1. Emus are the second largest birds native to Australia while Ostrich is largest bird native to Africa.
Emus have deep brown feathers with it being very difficult to distinguish the males and females except during mating season while the ostrich males have black and white and females have brown feathers. Emus are farmed for their oil, meat and leather while ostriches are farmed for their feathers meat and leather. Emus pairs for mating but the incubation and raising the chicks is done by the males alone. The ostriches form groups with each male have six to seven females and the incubation is done by them in turns.
Cite APA 7 ,. The flightless birds are evolved and adapted differently and are capable of living on land, unlike other birds. Ratite is one such diverse group of flightless birds that are mostly large and long-legged, they have a smooth sternum breastbone and lack a keel where the flight muscles are allocated which helps in the wing movement. The difference between Ostrich and Emu is the difference in their size, Ostrich is known to be the largest, reaching a height up to feet and kilograms, while Emu are normally between 5.
Ostrich and Emu both are flightless and share a common ancestry, they are by large similar in body structure and are considered the strongest and the fastest among birds. Struthio camelus commonly called Ostrich is a member of the flightless birds. Once found in Asia, Africa, and Arabian Peninsula they are now reduced to hot savannas and the woodlands of Africa due to extensive hunting and extinction at the regions.
They are omnivores though primarily they prefer plants and feed on roots, seeds, leaves, flowers but can often seem to be eating insects such as locust, snakes, lizards.
They also eat pebbles that help them in digestion while grinding the food.
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