A mob of excited emus have been filmed making a mad dash through a game of Aussie Rules football in outback Australia.
Footage posted to social media on Saturday, shows six of Australia’s largest native birds charging erratically through the game of club footy.
In the clip, believed to be recorded in Western Australia, the players on the field seem remarkably unfazed by the animals and continued playing the match as normal.
‘Outback streakers in the local footy,’ captioned the TikTok account Madmonday, who originally uploaded the video.
Amused followers took to the comments section to point out how hilarious the sight was.
‘Something I never thought I’d see,’ posted one user.
‘That’s the most entertaining AFL will get,’ joked another.
‘Average Aussie Sunday afternoon,’ said a third.
A mob of Australia’s largest native bird interrupted a local footy match
Emus primarily travel alone or in pairs but on rare occasions they will come together in large flocks.
The tall birds will travel in flocks to head to an area that has a better food supply.
During the summer months, emus mainly consume seeds, flowers, grass and insects.
Baby emus usually stay with their father for up to one-and-a-half years before moving off on their own.
During the mating period, female emus court males and will sometimes fight other females for access to the males.
After the female lays her eggs she will wander off and may mate with other males.
In other instances, she will stay to defend the nest with the male before the eggs hatch. After hatching, she will then leave the nest.
The sight of the emu flock comes after two cheeky emus returned to an outback town after they were banned from the local pub.
The animals, Kevin and Carol, spent months terrorising the Yaraka Hotel in Yaraka, in southwest Queensland, stealing customers’ food, drinks and even car keys.
Two emus, Kevin (pictured) and Carol, once terrorised the Yaraka Hotel in Yaraka, in south-west Queensland, stealing customers’ food, drinks and even car keys
The Yaraka Hotel, in the remote orange sandy desert of southwest Queensland, has put up barricades at its entrances in an effort to stop the feathered bandits
The emus were so naughty that the owner was forced to enforce a lifetime ban and set barricades up at the entrance to stop them from sneaking in.
The pair are beloved by the town’s 20 residents but vanished in January.
But Yaraka resident Leanne Byrne, the emus’ unofficial carer, said she had since spotted the siblings return to the town and one of them now had four baby chicks.
Ms Byrne leaves Yaraka each year for a few months at a time to work and said the pair usually make their way back from the wilderness once she returns.
But the emus failed to come back to Yaraka at the start of the year after going walkabout in January, with Ms Byrne struggling to find them.
Ms Byrne was given nine emu eggs that had been found by local workers, but only Kevin and Carol survived.
The animal lover said the pair, who are siblings, ‘love cuddles’.
Ms Byrne is hoping the emus will stay away from the town until the chicks are grown and able to fend for themselves.
‘They’re not my pets. They just tended to stay, and everyone looked after them type thing. They’re still wild animals,’ she told the ABC.