clipped from: www.stuff.co.nz A cunning plot has been hatched to find a mate for a sex-starved emu looking for love in all the wrong places.
Edward the emu hit the headlines last month when his owner, Patrena Arriston, broadcast an appeal for help to stop her much loved pet's amorous advances.
The Katherine woman figured it was time for the seven-year-old emu to find a mate after he sat on an empty nest and frantically tried to round her up whenever she entered his pen.
Her plea for help was answered by Lew Farkas, the owner of a remote NT roadhouse promoted as one of the world's UFO hotspots.
While the matchmakers overcame the initial problem of transporting the lucky lady the 800 kilometres from Wycliffe Wells to Katherine, they hit another snag: Lew discovered he only had one female emu.