Sapient Emu

The sapient emu (Neodromiceius elegans) is a species of highly intelligent emu that originally came from another dimension where flightless birds like emus, ostriches, cassowaries, rheas, kiwi birds, kakapos, and many others replaced humans and domestic mammals. Unlike native Earth emus, sapient emus are extremely intelligent, with a slightly larger braincase than Earth emus, having a wide range of cultures, religions, technologies, languages, etc. Sapient emus also have highly dexterous wing bones, which now act as human-like hands, due to their wrists being heavily modified from its ancestors (which resembled native Earth South American rheas), they are able to pronate their hands unlike other theropods (both non-avian and avian), allowing it to better manipulate and grab objects with its hands. They are about as fast in reproduction as native Earth non-sapient emus, but unlike them, they are slightly thicker in build and are much slower, only slightly faster than humans, so they rely on fast-moving objects to go quicker such as domestic ostriches (from its native dimension) and native Earth animals vehicles (including horses and cars). On Earth, sapient emus are extremely peaceful and coexist peacefully with other intelligent species including humans.