Three hours north of where a troop of monkeys escaped a lab earlier this month, two female emus named Thelma and Louise have been on the loose in South Carolina's Horry County for three months after escaping from a residential home.
"They are feral and not trained like the ones we have at the house," Sam Morace, the flightless birds' owner, wrote in a local Facebook group on Nov. 12. "Local law enforcement has already been at my house, we are trying to get a tranquilizer approved so we can bring them home. Thank you for all the concerns and questions. But if the emus were that easy to catch they would be home already."
While local law enforcement stated in a Facebook update that the birds, which grow to an average height of five and a half feet and can weigh more than 130 pounds, pose "no risk to the community." One of the emus did reportedly previously kill a pack of three wild dogs.
"If your dogs try and attack her she will fight back. But she's just not randomly going to go to anyone or any animal," Morace wrote on Facebook, later adding that the emu is "more scared of you than you are of her."
Many community members chimed in on Morace's post, with some even offering updates on when the emus were last spotted.
"Right off of tulip grove near the school," one user wrote, accompanied by a picture of one of the emus.
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