Tasmanian emu
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Illustration of a Tasmanian emu.
Noun
Tasmanian emu (plural Tasmanian emus)
- An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.
- 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 33:
- The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.
- 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 33:
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