The Great Emu War 1932: Australia's Unbelievable Battle Against Flightless Birds

[@OrnamentalHermitVisage]

And they never stepped out of line again, job done

[@DouglasHill-hh3qd]

Amazing, the emu is now the Australian national bird! I wonder if the war had anything to do with that.

[@WarrenBridges-um5cg]

@DouglasHill-hh3qd I know the emu and kangaroo are supporting the coat of arms because they supposedly can't take a backwards step.

[@stargazer2280]

Emus are the real overlords of Australia

[@ToudaHell]

The funniest war in history. And the humans LOST! 😂😂😂

[@shariwhite2424]

Haha they make a bloody mess of your car when they run out in front of ya

[@waenmanson3489]

what an animal

[@Kevinf0212]

I think you have been deluded by this Australian yarn. The government didn't declare war on the emus - the term was coined by journalists of the day. The Australian Army was defeated? I think the Australian Army was bigger than one artillery regiment and two lewis machine guns. One wonders why the government would use an artillery regiment rather than infantry regiment. Once a bounty was put on the emus over 57,000 were killed. I guess it's a cautionary tale that whatever the government can do, private enterprise can do it cheaper and more efficiently. This explains it a bit more accurately: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

[@iffracem]

It wasn't an entire regiment, just an officer and a few diggers, they sent what was close. I just want to know why the Emu in the thumbnail is so big and has 3 legs. Did it come from the nuclear testing area at Maralinga? Yeah, private enterprise and bounties are so much more efficient, they completely wiped out the Tasmanian subspecies of the Emu, along with the Thyalacine, but didn't put a dent in the feral, imported rabbit or fox problem