Multiple people and several cows worked together on Thursday to corral an emu in Washington county.

The Bangor Daily News reports that one of several loose emus in Washington County jumped into a cow fence on Thursday. Bob Bell, a 7th generation farmer and owner of the cows, Ray Willioms, the head of the search to capture the animals, and an unidentified volunteer grabbed the emu on the water’s edge of a cove where several young cows cornered it.

The bird had a bang and rope placed over its head and was taken to an undisclosed area where there’s another emu. Two more emus were also caught Thursday night.

Emu’s, which are native to Australia and are close relatives of ostriches, rheas, and cassowaries, have been known to travel at 30 mph and have attacked humans on occasion. They’ve also been known to destroy crops, even prompting the 1932 Emu War in Australia, where farmers attempted to drive them off their land with machine guns during a drought.

Bob Bell’s wife Jane said that her family felt lucky. Only a week ago, a family wedding was being held in the same area of the farm where the emu walked out.

Willioms said the emus had escaped from a truck while being transported from Unity to Houlton. Officials said they did not know where the emus were from or how they became loose.

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