Emmanuel the emu — who went viral on TikTok for hilariously pecking his owner’s phone as she filmed educational videos about farming — is fighting for his life amid a deadly outbreak of avian influenza, his owner said.
wild Egyptian geese, a type of aquatic bird known as waterfowl, who routinely
fly in “under the cover of darkness.” She said she believes they spread the disease among the domesticated birds there.“The virus hit them extremely hard and very quickly,” Blake wrote on Twitter as she described the extent of her family farm’s loss: “Every single” chicken, duck, goose, female black swan and turkey at the farm died in just three days.reached millions of people on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.
We put our brains together and built Emmanuel a sling so that we can start physical therapy with him, in the hopes that he will regain function of his right foot/leg. We have been tweaking and perfecting it over the last 48hrs.
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