The Great Emu War | Sam O'Nella | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

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[@themichelinman7323]

You should react to sam o'nella dog breed deformities

[@pumpkinboi9441]

why did hitler commit suicide? he saw his gas bill

[@kelvinherbener4639]

😅The emus had allies a bunch of kamikaze bombing pilot birds known as Peewees ,Magpies and plovers and they're a pack of crazy bastards

[@TheRezro]

Big problem with Emus is that they are so large that they can break fences and tough enough that they can sponge bullets.

[@deavenswainey6415]

One of my favorite jokes is "What do you call two crows?" "An attempted murder."

[@michaelhibbard654]

That is a good joke

[@zeallust8542]

This made me chuckle out loud. Thanks.

[@13vatra]

New favorite joke.

[@sarenhs4535]

Good one.

[@NewGothOnTheBlock]

Not murder in the 2nd degree? The attempted murder is funnier 😄

[@supersasukemaniac]

As oversimplified puts it "Here's the plan. When they start shooting we run away." "Sir....your a genius."

[@gaaraofthefunk265]

7:50 I'm not worried about how the truck looks. I'm just worried about how big those emus are in comparison.

[@peanut354]

The entire country of Australia just feels like a meme.

[@michaelhibbard654]

How dare you... We are only 3/4 meme. The other 0.25 is pure, concentrated poison.

[@anappropriatehandle]

do you know about Harold Holt

[@iamaspaceman8533]

America is the big brother of meme potential

[@Pedrohnm]

Why the foreigns are afraid of Brazil?😭 We have good food 😎👍lol were a country too kkkkkkkkk 🤣😽

[@Pedrohnm]

Ur going to Brazil lol 😭😭😭😭😎😭🤣😭

[@Deneberus]

Thank you for pronouncing Emyu correctly. Also, you try shooting a giant flightless bird when your bullets drop upward.

[@MrTerry]

Not with THAT attitude

[@googane7755]

Technically not wrong

[@tanvirsadaf7882]

@@MrTerry altitude

[@ipadair7345]

@@MrTerry *altitude

[@blitsriderfield4099]

​@@MrTerrylatitude

[@meatman2203]

I love how the Australian used their very small amount of money they had during the depression to hunt down a shit ton of bulletin proof birds rather than actually help their citizens with.

[@breadbread4226]

That bounty system was honestly one of the best things they could have done for the Western farmers. I mean you are basically paying them to bring you a small chunk that proves that you went out hunting for an edible bird.

[@mathewkelly9968]

Huh what are you talking about ? The government instituted unemployment payments for starters

[@ipadair7345]

@@breadbread4226 but ain't that just creating the Indian cobra problem, where people would breed the bounty target, and selling a part of it.

[@breadbread4226]

@@ipadair7345 the difference is that cobras can be kept in small confinement and are easy to feed. Emus aren't. But thanks for informing me of that problem.

[@sirdurtle9519]

Yes, they did in fact throw cork boards at the emus

[@DanGamingFan2406]

During the truck chase, one of the emus got its head caught in the window, causing the driver to crash and flip over, crushing it.

[@jlokison]

Well 1 confirmed kill, but trading a truck for 1 Emu is not sustainable.

[@Shadowmants]

@@jlokison Not with THAT attitude!

[@PinkGoldBeans6197]

A suicide bomber. They're evolving

[@devilmaycry09dante]

Studied in Australia for 2 years, and when I asked about the Emu war, my friend Bernard told me "Emu are effin scary man, don't mess with them". I went to the library to read about it instead.

[@thelegendaryfk7922]

I guess the Australians are still scarred from that war almost 90 years later

[@synshenron798]

Holy shit dude. If the Australians are scarred of an Emu then you know you better be scarred too cause everything in Australia wants to kill you

[@mikitz]

As we're talking about a venomous bird the size of a man, I would stay clear, even if I had a 12 gauge shotgun.

[@synshenron798]

@@mikitz how are they venemous

[@Daxelinho9]

10:15 That can very easily backfire: Cobra effect. Basically if you pay them for shooting Emus they might breed them specifically to get the bounty. If the government then ends the funding the farmers release the Emus and it's worse then before.

[@sumvs5992]

Important lessons to take from the Emu War 1. Regularly maintain your weapons to ensure that they don't jam at the worst times 2. Make sure your zero is always where you want it 3. Engage targets (especially if they are animals) at a distance that ensure you get a clean, humane kill 4. Emus are the australian version of Snipe

[@MrHitmancheg]

Can you imagine if it was Great Cassowary War? Australia would lose not because they ran out of ammo, but because all human life in Australia would be extinguished.

[@artsysabs]

😂

[@HeyItsNate2]

its best to not provoke them, if we start a war against them we will be wiped off the face of the earth.

[@michaelhibbard654]

That would be terrifying

[@jlokison]

As long as the Emus, Cassowaries, and magpies do not start working together as a unified force some humans might survive. Although no matter how the bird wars go the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will probably have most of the surviving humans.

[@xPandamon]

Ah, a fellow mndiaye\ Casual Geographics watcher I assume

[@BJ_au]

"It's a nice change of pace to have the kids eat the dingoes for once" 😂 Sadly under appreciated by an American audience

[@kirayoshikage3258]

“Space dingo will you eat your space baby”

[@richeybaumann1755]

"A dingo ate my baby!" (we think. Probably. At least, Lindy and Michael almost certainly didn't kill her.)

[@angrydragonslayer]

Fair amount of coyotes eating babies in the US

[@MrTerry]

Who won the war?

[@adamjohnson7093]

I did

[@jaredvetter7705]

Paying tribune to the emus is a pretty good indication...

[@mcmahon31619]

the emus won

[@jaredvetter7705]

Theyre on the coat of arms

[@TheRealSaintSaber]

The nazis did

[@leholen381]

The Great Emu War is one of my favorite moments in history

[@CrashKinkaide]

I love collective nouns. For example, a group of ravens is an "unkindness," a group of lemures is a "conspiracy," and a group of teenagers is a "slouch."

[@invalidvulture1408]

You actually aren't entirely wrong with saying "The emus are going to inform the other emus that they're being hunted" - Many animals, but especially things like social birds, do seem to share this knowledge with others of their kind when flocks intermingle. This is most observed in birds like crows and some large-flocking songbirds, but it's not unheard of in ground dwelling birds like emus. It's very prevalent in chickens; If you raise them, you'll definitely have see them 'tell' other chickens what is or is not a threat, even if you've never made it clear to the flock yourself!

[@skourpi142]

You are correct, I know it doesn’t pertain to this situation, but this is what whales did when whaling was at its height. If whales can do it underwater, I see no reason why Emus couldn’t do it on land.

[@pudgeboyardee32]

their feet look more like the claws of velociraptor or utahraptor. theyre basically a natural reboot of that body plan. all the big flightless birds are, even turkeys are like this. some geneticists have even suggested that turkeys could be genetically modified to make novaraptors, or new-raptors. it was research into these similarities that convinced lots of paleontologists that many dinosaurs likely had feathers and behaved similarly to large flightless birds. their eggs are similar, the nests are similar, the brain pans seem similar enough that the same sort of group coordination couldve been very common in many ancient raptors. big packs splitting into smaller units and communicating tactics to each other. a lot of this is still up in the air and cant be directly tested but thats why some people want to use the bits of utahraptor dna that has been found to modify turkeys and other large birds and see what happens. needless to say, there has been some pushback on that idea. i personally think its neat on paper but probably not something anyone could be trusted with. and the research would still be speculative at best and a gamble with living beings at worst. the world needs murder-turkeys like it needs another hole in the ozone.

[@neolithiumproduction]

Thing about emus is their vital organs are in a very small condensed area at the front of their body. So unless you know emu anatomy well and are a great shot, many of the bullets you put into an emu are nothing more then flesh wounds with no vitals hit.

[@LeveyHere]

The next CoD after Vanguard needs to be about the Emu War

[@scareraven9669]

And for zombies it’s just you in a grassy field surviving waves of emus, while also drinking water so you don’t dehydrate.

[@The-Plaguefellow]

Wouldn't that make all the missions fighting retreats in the end? And man, that multiplayer will be fricking unbalanced, since the Emus would be so strong

[@kngsvg8201]

Gonna have flightless birds dropshotting you with a mp40

[@wolfhurricane897]

Ah yes. Australia. The country where everything with a pulse can kill you. Kangaroos, Dingos, Crocodiles, Spiders, not even the Koalas are safe.

[@bieltann9058]

Well, Emu's are on the Coat of Arms of Australia. Pest is a bit strong. They can be pretty aggressive if you're around them like any large/human-sized animal.

[@potatomanuno7038]

I like this Certified History Teacher with such broad knowledge got hyped up for this youtube stickman who hasnt posted in what feels like years to say "hey kids"

[@bobd2659]

Emu is pretty damn delicious! It's kinda expensive here (In Canada), but it is available. I do NOT suggest trying the eggs. I haven't had one, but I've seen enough videos to know they aren't that great...

[@IsakSZN-es6uj]

Don’t get what the point is to ship some dead animal halfway around the globe so that people say look I ate an exotic animal

[@brisket5588]

@@IsakSZN-es6uj because people are willing to pay for it

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@IsakSZN-es6uj they breed them in the US so its not like they are going that far lol some people even keep them as pets

[@LukasJampen]

@@IsakSZN-es6uj even here in Switzerland we have a few farmers that breed them and sell their meat. They aren't that difficult to take care off and yes their meat is pretty delicious.

[@brendondavid7349]

Love emu, probably my favourite meat

[@calebgoodman2076]

Keep in mind that the Emu War is the *first* time humans waged war on birds and lost. The second time was against sparrows about twenty years later in China. Thousands of *human deaths.* Mostly from starvation. Worst part is it was all due to a mistake!

[@GearShotgun]

Me at 13: GOD I HATE SCHOOL Me at 26: Oh boy here I go learning again!

[@terryhiggins5077]

Key take away is school sucks and not the learning part lol

[@chuggingtar]

Humans naturally love learning new things it's in our biology, school has been proven to make humans resent learning

[@penguinsrockrgr8yt216]

@@terryhiggins5077 education system is bunked and we should all try to make learning fun in schools

[@artsysabs]

I didnt hate school but wouldnt say it was my favorite place. I liked my teachers, but didnt have many friends and was the typical awkward mess of a teenager 😂 Love learning stuff though

[@arandomuser9459]

Me when I'm on the bus: Finally its friday Me 20 minutes later: Time for history!

[@rikishikato5001]

"Don't crowdfund. Crowdsource." Gotcha, Sammy boi.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

1. Nine rounds per person would actually be really good for a war. 2. Emus are edible. Their meat taste surprisingly like gaming grass-fed beef The fat on its back is actually valuable these days because no one rendered it becomes a very nice skin ointment for eczema and related conditions.

[@dethspud]

"It'sa nice change of pace for the kids to eat the dingoes" A "dingo ate my baby" reference? Well played, Sam. *golf clap*

[@l.b8896]

He’s right yo, Australia doesn’t get enough cred for constructing an entire society upside down.that’s sounds difficult as fuck! Mad props ozzies, mad props.

[@ToaArcan]

Can confirm that the emu does not have a human foot. Like most ratites, they have giant dino-claws instead. Special mention should go to the Hell Turkey that is the Cassowary, which has replaced one of its toes with a giant murder-claw, because Australia has apparently decided it was okay to respawn Velociraptors, but with the violent disposition that can only come from being a creature that doesn't have to worry about hunting food.

[@michaelhibbard654]

That pretty much sums it up

[@lynxraide]

We fought the emus... cause there is no way we are messing with the cassowaries...

[@tracesosebee5485]

Emus are Australia's national bird... and a massive pest

[@Shantari]

A group of owls is a parliament. (CS Lewis had fun with this in one of the Narnia Chronicles)

[@WolvieXXXZandalari]

This actually makes me a bit sad... they didnt even touch on what beat the Emus in the end. A fence. Yes, a fence. They made a new fence that kept the Emu's out.

[@juliakovacs4885]

My favorite unit of animal measurement is "a kindle of kittens"!

[@edwin75571]

Australia: the country that went to war against animals twice and lost both times

[@ItsAsparageese]

I feel like the audio balance between the video and your voice is way, way better lately! This video is a perfect example, I didn't have to turn it down or up the whole time at all! Thanks so much 😊🙏💚

[@Theturtleowl]

Now that I know a group of Emus is called a mob, I can't wait for the Godemu part I and II and Scarbeak.

[@santerilaakeristo7305]

10k rounds to 1000 kills is actually decent ratio if you compare it to any other war really!

[@Dragonemperess]

Props to Australia for not falling off of the planet.

[@FFSteveEMT]

Emoo and Emew are both correct pronunciations.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Luckily for Australians, gravity there works upside down as well, so it all sticks.

[@MortimerFolchert]

Sam: "If you want to commit Massmurder, don't 'Crowd-fund' -> 'Crowd-Source'" Charles Manson: "I like the Sound of that..."

[@danielhughes1711]

Who misses Sam O’Nella

[@GrifoStelle]

Their last video was a year ago ?!

[@DanBulboTheGamer]

He is in final years of college if I'm correct but he said that he would post a video late 2021

[@reapershadow2966]

i still don't get why they didn't just use the emus as an alternate food source ......

[@bogtrotter17]

Now they are fighting the great mouse war

[@attigator]

Awesome video! You should do a reaction to Internet Historian’s video, The Gentleman Pirate

[@tomsmith5584]

I remember playing both of those games in the background when I was in college. I got really good at them.

[@modnationgunner879]

Have you ever checked out puppet history? Full of jokes and cool events/people all across history

[@cathuang6212]

this absolutely

[@MrTerry]

I have not, but thanks for the rec!

[@zacerax6000]

"there's some weird units of measurement out there" Sam O'nella: *cracks knuckles*

[@golem26]

Emu and kangaroo's are both considered pests and are hunted (with a license but as long as you are with someone who has one you're usually fine) they are both our national animals and can not walk backwards.

[@velvadere7832]

Unkindness of ravens A wedge of swans A horde of people A pod of whales

[@lawaern3474]

Ah great. Another reminder of those bloody emus and their bloody victory. I've a mind to go get feather hats. And yes Mr Terry, emus can be a bit of a pest, but where I live cockatoos are WAY worse... Granted there aren't many emus in Sydney. Also, emus are a part of the local First Australian Diet. It isn't as popular as beef or anything, but it is definitely a thing. Way more so than those 'bloomin' onions' or whatever you seppos think we eat. Here's a fun fact, I once heard a Dream Time story (First Australian mythohistory) that the emus used to have proper wings, but the emu got into a fight with the kangaroo. The kangaroo had a really sharp boomerang that cut the emu's wings straight off. So Humans

[@anhondacivic6541]

i hope sam does a vid on how china lost a war against sparrows

[@DatAlien]

Ten bullets per kill isn't bad for a MG.

[@Bobcat205]

10:57 Mr. Terry’s dog makes a cameo.

[@GREENPATRIOT99]

If I had a nickel for every time a country declared war on birds and lost, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s strange that it happened twice.

[@Material_Monkey]

Whats the other one?

[@JoTheSnoop]

Interesting fact: Australia's economy had plummeted in 1927, two years prior to the Wall Street Crash. That prolonged the effects of the Great Depression.

[@ThePsyko420]

Emus with guns sounds like a horror movie

[@tsenario6212]

you can definitely eat emu's, but would recommend tenderising it somehow. kangaroo's also not bad, but need to be pretty rare.

[@tsenario6212]

In case anyone cares, the Emu "problem" was dealt with a combination of mainly better fences being built, as well as bounties to control the population. Also, I agree we definitely not the dominant species down in upside down world, but Emu's are the least of our problems. Venomous snakes in most area's, jacked as heck kangaroos, venomous spiders a few of which can take you out in hours; and that's just land. Waters in the northern coast probably have the most venomous creatures we offer, like the box jellyfish. It's totally the place for a holiday get away, all peachy~

[@michaelhibbard654]

@@tsenario6212 thank goodness for antivenom

[@bogtrotter17]

I had a pulled emu sandwich and it wasn't bad. It was some kind of exhibit at the state fair here in VA promoting raising them here

[@stroud9208]

Adult Emu's are a bit too chewy, it's the premature ones you want

[@saiken811]

Oh god… those emu with human legs… they are back… nightmare flashback lol

[@thezootycooner]

Reaction begins at 2:35

[@cb289]

I am half British, half Australian. Have lived in both countries. Appreciate the correct pronunciation of Emu at the beginning, now I don't have to complain :D Also - you've never come across a cassowary have you. Flightless giant prehistoric birds with massive claws are no joke. I was almost mauled by one. I think they might even be distantly related to raptors. A mob of those let loose and the Australian government would have to declare a state of emergency. Lucky I knew krav maga and was able to side step the bird and run fast. Don't go hiking near Cairns if you want to live

[@Danceofmasks]

Kangaroos are pests, too. The difference is, Kangaroos are easy to kill. Mmm ... kanga bangas.

[@jaykecee9496]

Dude, history was always my favorite subject. I would have loved you to be my teacher. Keep being awesome. My favorite teacher was Mr. Barman, tought AP Russian History. Best class I ever took in high school. He had tiny scale models of seige weapons, he was awesome. You seem to love history as much as him. Keep going, I promise it inspires at least one person in every class. Thank you for your service, especially in times like this.

[@Mathadar]

I definitely recommend the other Dan Brown book, "The Lost Symbol". Love that book that is all about Washington D.C., Symbology, and has someone who is trying through ancient and due form, trying to become a god.

[@beamerball666]

@02:40 Mr Terry be like "say the line Bart"

[@1995DylanJ]

starts @2:33

[@m00k61]

The Great Emo War = Fall Out Boy Vs. Taking Back Sunday

[@Merennulli]

The emu won the war, but the rabbits conquered the continent.

[@TheSteelKlown]

My friend feeds emu to her dogs and we up in Canada so they definitely should eat them

[@MrTerry]

More like Em-ew

[@Springboi101]

What makes it funnier is that it’s there national bird

[@spreest9537]

Would you consider reacting to Count Dankula's 'The Byzantine Blinding'? It's so interesting. Love your channel, long time lurker here!

[@victore8342]

3:06 fun fact: Australia is the only place in the world where you can get a pineapple right-side-up cake 🍍 🎂

[@MrChainrule]

A moment of silence for the emus that were killed and the men that were embarrassed...

[@Someone0nR3ddit]

What other Sam O'nella video haven't you watch?

[@rogervanaman6739]

Ostrich tastes good. I wouldn't mind trying some emu.

[@Davey-Boyd]

I have to say Ostrich steak is the finest meat I have ever tasted. Burgers are good too. Used to buy it in Lincoln market (England) when I lived there. They have Ostrich farms there. Never tried Emu yet though.

[@christianmw1020]

At this point we need Sam to come back just to do a collab with Mr. Terry

[@solinvictus2132]

You guys should check out the sequel, "EMU WAR: The movie" by mechanic shark channel

[@naygoats955]

i hate how everyone outside of australia prodounces emu as emoo like it's some kind of electrinic cow

[@tsilarij-p3726]

Oversimplified made it much funnier

[@RRW359]

You misspelled Potential History.

[@GrifoStelle]

I love the double dose of snark

[@DerPlaystationZocker]

at least they still got the big dingo fence!

[@Zarkoneous]

I now want to try emu

[@calebgoodman2076]

Do you think any of the people tasked with eliminating the Emu got Mobbed? Yes the pun was intended.

[@TheIshakuro]

"I can't believe they figured out how to operate a society upside-down" Have you seen Aus politics? I would argue against calling that operational.

[@AudreySmith-223]

Group of crows is called murder

[@anonymousbrooks8194]

I know I'm just spitballing here, why didn't they just eat that emus? It probably solve a lot of The hunger crisis going on back then.

[@anappropriatehandle]

the funny thing is when I was little on the farm I got a go at killing emus, i was given a sniper of some sort and killed 15 emus with 18 bullets so those guys must have been drunk while shooting

[@DatAlien]

WW1 MGs aren't exactly known for their accuracy.

[@fedos]

TIL Australians are unaware that other dialects of English exist.

[@Phoenixryu]

If Australia is upside down like you say then their losing was actually them winning!

[@spooknukem1177]

The thing that Sam don't mention is that the guns ur using 303 ammo witch is a big fuck off round and the emu's can still take three or more of the rounds

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

8:46 It's bad accuracy, but it's also not that bad. Assuming what he said earlier, that it takes 2 to 3 bullets to take one down, so 2.5 bullets, 12% of their bullets were used, so 30% of their bullets were effective shots contributing to a kill, against an enemy with never before seen tactics. For comparison, the USA lost track of its ammo usage in Afghanistan, and the UK shot about 46 million rounds over 8 years. Pretty sure the Taliban didn't have even 500,000 war dead against the UK, let alone 5.5 million (12%). And that's with a fully ready battle doctrine, training against the taliban's tactics, and rousing public support keeping things going. This is because in war, you have to create new tactics to win. And that takes time. And uses resources. The US and UK settled on a suppressive fire doctrine in Afghanistan, namely that you keep the fire rate up to keep their heads down. It's extremely wasteful in terms of ammunition. We don't assume inaccuracy because of that, but we totally could assert that based on the number of rounds used. The aussies were underfunded and undermanned, but were clearly working out a strategy and improving their combat effectiveness against the emus. On top of that, because it was a crapjob they'd been tasked with, it'd be totally understandable if the squaddies were wasting ammunition without trying to even aim properly, or taking fun potshots. It's easy to look back at it, knowing it was a failure in the end - mainly because there was no actual political will or funding to keep it running - and the numbers and assume "bad accuracy". It's also kinda flippant to compare it to call of duty, a game where the consequences for being shot are to eat a cheeto while you wait to respawn, where the skill level barely goes down throughout a fight - unlike bouncing around in the back of a jeep on rough ground in sweltering heat for hours. It was a dumb operation on the aussies' part, but because it was a failure overall, people seem to ignore the mitigating factors entirely, even where they're completely relevant. If the Aussie government had given them more time - it lasted a month - more manpower - they had 3 people and 2 guns - and more ammo - they had 10000 rounds for use in machine guns, then maybe things would have been far more successful.

[@stickman69420]

Yeah it's fairly hard for us but the ground harness makes it much easier

[@Tarantio1983]

It ain't just the Aussies that say the word "emu" RIGHT, us Brits pronounce it the same way as the Aussies ...

[@hendrikusscherphof7348]

Australia used to be a place for criminals. Once your moral code is upside down, it's easy to design the rest of society around that Also a fun fact about how the bounty system can go horribly wrong: There have been instances where people started breeding pests to hand in the bounties. Other times the bounty could be earned by showing the animals body part, for example a tail, which meant people started catching animals, cutting their tails off, and releasing them back so they could be caught again once their tails had grown back

[@magnalucian8]

Emu meat is eaten, you can get it along with kangaroo meat in the "Coat of Arms Burger"

[@glurzoh]

Lets gooooooooo we back at sam o nella

[@Cheesytarian]

3:54 I think moisture might have something to do with it 😉