The Great Emu War

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The Great Emu War was a real confrontation between emus and the Australian army in 1932.

These more than 6 foot tall ratites are solitary animals as long as they don’t starve. But this is exactly what happened in 1932 and thousands of emus trampled the harvest of native farmers in search of food. The Australian people were already suffering from the economic crisis and saw their existence threatened, so they asked the army for help.

However, despite the use of heavy machine guns, the soldiers were initially unable to shoot any emus. The animals even adapted to the threat and, as with protection against predators, one emu in the group was always on the lookout for soldiers to warn the others. Their speed of up to 30 mph helped them escape easily which is why after several weeks only just under 1,000 emus were shot, which hardly affected their population.

The problem recurred in the following years, but the army was no longer deployed. Only the construction of a 135-mile fence in 1953 provided a long-term remedy.

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[scottmcmaster]

Little do most people realize it, but the Emu did not lose this war. Instead they developed the perfect camouflage by donning Australian clothing and learning to speak with an Australian accent. It is estimated today that 25% of Australia's population is actually Emu.

[JordanBenjamin-cw]

As an Australian, Emus are the scariest thing yet. Even Scarier then the house size spider in the jungle.

[MnM]

If EMUs were like this Imagine Aussies vs Dinos

[MrAnnoyingYouBadly]

Dude.. the guy leaning on that wagon looks like Christian Bale a little bit...

[jessespring]

They need to make this a movie 🎥 the emu wars rated R

[OfficalJumperKanal]

Australia cant even handle birds hahahaha

[dmo]

Bruh they adapted.... And had emu's on lookout.

[bussy_devourer]

Yeh there were only three soldiers with one machine gun in the back of a Van with only a thousand rounds of ammo for 20 thousand emus media the great emu war

[harvey]

Emu Phillips use to entertain the birds between battles.

[colinmerritt]

Elsewhere on YT someone made a 20m movie about the Emu War. It ends by saying the Emus joined the Allies in 1942 to fight the Axis.

[shugard]

Haha never heard of emus before. What a crazy story 😂

[HeedTheLorax]

I heard the war ended because of the cost of ammo, bullets aren't free. There was much expenditure of ammo for very little return.

[dustinmills]

Emu thoughts "Machine guns, Ha ha ha, you can't do shit to hold on minute mate, what's this.... some wire... oh no we're fucked, it's all over."

[GremlinCrunches]

"ee-moos"
It's "eem-youse"

[smileyman]

This needs to be the next project of the studio that made Cocaine Bear.

[jessespring]

Lmao oh man I'm getting emu war flashbacks mate blimey

[K_Nasty]

Who else just watched Koala Man on Hulu and thinks this is hilarious

[hoomanplaysgames]

eemoos?? i find it so funny when non-Australians pronounce things i’ve known my whole life completely wrong and i question if my life was a lie 😂

[seanfernandolopez]

"We're gonna build a wall! And it's gonna be tremendous!"

🍊👱

[subhajitghosh]

They are flightless birds ..that why they only had kne option in fight or flight