{"id":1593,"date":"2015-03-06T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2015-05-26T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:24:57","slug":"getting-to-know-an-emu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know an emu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My notes read: &#8220;liquid amber eyes.&#8221; It&#8217;s the first thing I notice, standing face to beak with an emu, as it approaches to look me over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ka_emu_copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ka_emu_copy.jpg\" alt=\"KAnandakuttan_emu_journal\" width=\"580\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neat biological things I note too, in my sketchbook&#8211; things that make this specifically an emu and not another large, flightless, &#8220;Struthioniform&#8221; ratite: three toes&#8230; shaggy almost hairy looking feathers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Blue skin&#8230; BLUE SKIN. Not colorful feathers, but beautifully bright sky-blue skin on its neck.<\/p>\n<p>Its nest is full of \u00a0huge, deepest-teal green eggs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deep rumbling clucks,&#8221; I write. I now know what a dinosaur might have sounded like. Responding on an instinctual level (is that the pit of my stomach?) and also in my brain, I consider the amazing, far-flung ratite family. Trails of DNA are separated by drifting continents and oh-so-many years.\u00a0Ostriches in Africa, \u00a0rhea in South America&#8211; puzzled over by Darwin; emu in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, Emu! I am glad to know you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>&#8211;Meeting emus, salamanders, jellyfish, and more: I invite your comments on my article<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youshareproject.com\/illustrating-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illustrating Science: When Art and Science Collide<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"\/\/www.youshareproject.com\/illustrating-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.youshareproject.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notes read: &#8220;liquid amber eyes.&#8221; It&#8217;s the first thing I notice, standing face to beak with an emu, as it approaches to look me over. 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