 Item number SCP-4297-J Object Class of Polyon Special Containment Procedures The Australian government is cooperating with the Foundation to contain SCP-4297-J. Government in exile, following Incident 4297-J.32. Object of SCP-4297-J is currently unfeasible due to its ubiquity throughout the continent, as well as its primary anomalous effect. Should SCP-4297-J threaten civilian settlements, Mobile Task Force TAL-19, a Polyon-1 or cracker, is tasked with luring them into uninhabited areas. Mobile Task Force Gamma-9, Vegemite, is responsible for maintaining distribution of amnestic, lace foodstuffs to grocery stores throughout the Australian continent, to ensure that knowledge of SCP-4927-J fails to spread. Description SCP-4297-J is the designation for D. Novay Hollandae, commonly known as EMUs. You already know what EMUs are. Instances of SCP-4297-J are capable of communicating among themselves and are highly intelligent. Using vocalizations described as, quote, if a digital dude can speak German, unquote, measured using Standard Foundation Abient Intelligence Test Beakman's world. Instances of SCP-4297-J typically utilize their beaks and feet to grasp and manipulate objects, often in conjunction with their claws. However, despite being observed by numerous members of MTF Gamma-9, this phenomenon is yet to be captured on video. Just take our word for it, Agent Moa, MTF Gamma-9. SCP-4297-J is capable of using memetic, antimemetic, emphohazardous, cognitohazardous, patahazardous, and double-data-expunged anomalies that thwart Foundation attempts to contain it. It is believed that SCP-4297-J could possess the capability to disguise itself as other organisms that conceal its presence. See Incident 4927-J.5. That's preposterous. There's no evidence that we can do that. Dr. Evelyn Mu. Instances of SCP-4297-J are capable of reproduction with other SCP-4297-J instances or non-anomalous emus, generating eggs designated SCP-4297-J-1. Similarly to non-anomalous emus, SCP-4297-J instances can each lay between 20 and 50 eggs per season, about 30 to 40% of which are fertilized and hatch new instances of SCP-4297-J. Survey was determined by Foundation ornithologists' review of over 450 hours of mating footage conducted over a long weekend. The remaining instances of SCP-4297-J1 are unfertilized. Experimentation logs for SCP-4297-J1 are available from the biological Site-231 cafeteria to all personnel between the hours of 0600 and 1200 hours. For an abridged log, see menu, I mean document 4297-J.001. SCP-4297-J show great resistance to Foundation containment and extermination efforts. More recently, however, SCP-4297-J instances have adopted guerrilla tactics, blending in with non-anomalous emus for protection and using their natural speed to escape if disarmed or wounded. Discovery SCP-4297-J was discovered in 1932 when Australian soldiers were sent to aid farmers in an effort to clear the emu population from their land, only to be forced to return due to malfunctioning equipment, believed to be caused by a probability altering effect. Suspecting foul play, the Foundation was contacted and attempted to ████████ Despite overwhelming superiority, all consuming ████████ art beaks to viciously castrate ████████ Australia's unconditional surrender. Incident ██████-49-27-J.5 On October 21, 1953, Foundation aerial reconnaissance discovered a previously undetected colony of emus, numbering over 6,000 instances contained within a vast fence expanse in western Australia. It had been run by an unknown GOI with hostile intent. In light of the imminent violation of the VAIL protocol, O5 command voted 12-1 in favour of eliminating the SCP-4297-J and GOI personnel using a 10-kiloton yield nuclear bomb. Operation Drowned Ratite was conducted with the cooperation of the GOC and the Australian Government under the guise of British nuclear testing. Following, the SCP Foundation is issued a formal apology to the former staff of Brian's Ostrich Sanctuary. This must be a manifestation of 4297-J's anomalous effect. They fooled us again, aging Cassie Warrie. Agreed. There's no way we could have prevented this. We had to be sure. O5-13-21 Containment procedures and further courses of action are currently under review.