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The Emu War was started because it was assumed to be an easy political victory but these birds had different ideas. Despite heavy machine gun fire, the emus learned, adapted, and overcame. Joseph Lyons faced pressure to put an end to the whole silly affair. And unfortunately, the towns of Campion and Walgoolan would see their support evaporate as more emus trampled the wheatfields so necessary for living.
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@extrahistory 2 года назад

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@CrazyJaketheTerrible 2 года назад

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@margaretkairu7418 2 года назад

your videos are awesome.

@monkawae896 2 года назад

Ngl I think White Serpent really wants subtitles. Just a feeling, though.

@AbsolXGuardian 2 года назад

"Machine guns are plenty humane, we invented them to use on people!"

@questionfor9502 2 года назад

My opinion is if it isn't banned by Geneva I'm gonna use it

@Freekymoho 2 года назад

@@reosavant5769 same

@thatonefriendiii2827 2 года назад

Lmao 🤣

@thatonefriendiii2827 2 года назад

@@reosavant5769 yeah same lol

@sayantanm2 2 года назад

@@reosavant5769 Depends on where you are shot, if you are shot in the tummy and left uncared for ... the digestive juices in the belly will leak out of their containment zones and begin eating yourself and your innders + blood will be infected. Resulting in a slow painful death.

@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv 2 года назад

This war clearly shows the superiority of the Emu intel network. They recognized the enemy was counting on a quick victory by overwhelming force, realized that this was a strategy Napoleon had used, gathered intelligence on Napoleon’s own tactics and victories and implemented a strategy that prevented such a victory: “When they show up, we’ll run away.” Genius!

@arcticlaw9198 2 года назад

Referencing Oversimplified? There's a tax for that

@TheDiloEmpire 2 года назад

@@arcticlaw9198 don't make me punish you severely

@Battleship009 2 года назад

@@arcticlaw9198 Causing me to laugh? There's tax for that.

@thesusposter48 2 года назад

hey if it worked for the russians and the portuguese why wouldn't it work for the emus

@rafaelzamudio354 2 года назад

@@Battleship009 dude... Uncool

@auraaetherbladesigma6939 2 года назад

The most meme’d war ever to exist in warfare history. And reasonably so.

@haventakalou6530 2 года назад

Uh hello? Bucket war??

@alicorn3924 2 года назад

Nah, it's WW2

@wyomingptt 2 года назад

Winter War???

@haikalmiftah2529 2 года назад

There a war against goat by Equadorian goverment 2 decades ago. And yet it's unpopular comapred to emu war.

@MALEMization 2 года назад

I wish Extra History does the Battle of Karansebes as a special episode! One episode about it should be enough!

@Wolfeson28 2 года назад

The fact that a bunch of birds quickly and instinctively developed effective tactics to deal with machine gun attacks, while the most "advanced" human armies in the world spent four years mostly charging straight into them sure does shine an unflattering light on WW1.

@chakatfirepaw 2 года назад

The differences are of goals and the overall situation: The strategy of disengaging when attacked works perfectly fine if your goal is survival and you are facing a localized force. It doesn't work so well when your goal is to hold and take territory and you are facing an extended front.

@Dreagostini 2 года назад

Those emus won't get arrogant. They just want to live. And they don't have superiors who send them to death. Either way around. (Into the enemy trench or into a court marshal and being shot, that is.)

@ginoclaves 2 года назад

"Tactic": Run at 30 mph and be a roving collector beast of that size

@joshuanishanthchristian5217 2 года назад

@@ginoclaves I think he may be referring to the fact that the soldiers and farmers seemingly noticed that the emus kept sticking to smaller and smaller groups with some even supposedly keeping lookout. As ridiculous as it sounds, similar things have been scientifically noticed and recorded amongst other species, so it may very well be possible the emus actually did it as well.

@rinzzler366 2 года назад

Military goals were much different in WW1 than they were here. Both sides couldn't afford to scatter or run away.

@CliffCardi 2 года назад

American: “I still don’t see how you could lose to a bunch of emus-“ Australian: “YOU WEREN’T THERE!!!!!”

@samuelademeso9041 2 года назад

Aussies: I still don't see how u could lose to a bunch of rice farmers America: " YOU WEREN'T THERE!!!!" Aussie: oh actually we were. American: ....oh

@Dude_bruh 2 года назад

Well they didn't win either so

@Jacob-ge1py Год назад

How are you doing with those wild pigs?

@larrychilders6599 Год назад

@Jacob-ge1py we didn't wage war on them

@shinybugg9156 7 месяцев назад

Lol we knew better...

@SteppefordWife 2 года назад

Australian military: *Rolls in with machine guns and soldiers* Emus: Look at what they need to mimic a FRACTION of our power!

@fightingblindly 2 года назад

Lol

@bernardoheusi6146 2 года назад

Invincible funny meme

@Lazarus1095 2 года назад

You know, putting the absurdity of men fighting emus aside, this is actually a textbook example of how a powerful nation loses a war against a technologically inferior foe: 1. Constantly underestimating the enemy; 2. Over-reliance upon rare & expensive technology; 3. An inflexible command structure; 4. Comparative lack of mobility; 5. Comparative lack of recruitment; 6. Lack of adequate funding; 7. Failure to press on in the face of of set-backs; 8. The end of a valid strategic goal in maintaining the war. This whole damned thing reads as a dress rehearsal for Vietnam & Afghanistan.

@mckayleepugmire9947 2 года назад

Great point. I want to say at least we can say that the Vietnamese and Afghanistanese (that's not right I know) are smarter than birds, but it's still a case of death by hubris.

@daniellin1726 2 года назад

And political turbulence? Where the war effort is "not serious enough" to warrant unity, so opposing forces still sees the war as a tool for political sabotage internally.

@Lazarus1095 2 года назад

@@daniellin1726 Oh, don't even REMIND me...

@iapetusmccool 2 года назад

I was thinking about Herodotus's description of the Scythians, and the failed attempt of the Persians to conquer them.

@ThatGeezer 2 года назад

Not really a dress rehearsal for Afghanistan, since the British had shown the futility of trying to impose order by military force there almost a hundred years earlier.

@50TNCSA 2 года назад

The greatest defeat in Australian military history

@crabobserver 2 года назад

The only defeat in Australian military history

@crabobserver 2 года назад

The only event in Australian military history

@pube66 2 года назад

Hahaha and they lost to birds 🤣🤣

@nileshkumaraswamy2711 2 года назад

Gallipoli who?

@blaisedw 2 года назад

All hail the great overlords of Australia!

@shawnheatherly 2 года назад

Including the depiction of emu soldiers made this series ten times better.

@xgreywolf1525 2 года назад

"Though this made no difference to emu morale and the birds continued their devastation of the fields." A brilliant aspect of the emu population that proved to be a greater foe than the largest armies in the world.

@blockmasterscott 2 года назад

The real heroes are the Aussies for having a good sense of humor about the whole thing. /salute

@Ggdivhjkjl 2 года назад

Thanks mate.

@Scarletraven87 2 года назад

A military lesson from the mongols: A fast, mobile force where every individual is a threat, is the one heck to deal with. I think the emus are underrated to this day.

@thegreenrose147 Год назад

Any time the Mongols are mentioned, my mind goes straight to John Green and the Mongoltage 😂😂😂😂😂

@gzer0x 2 года назад

“At this moment of despair, a moment at which one comes to believe in the existence of an Emu commander and intelligence chief… that Meredith and his men were ordered back home.”

@makingmorrigan3420 2 года назад

As an Australian, I just want to give you folks an absolute, bottom of my heart, thank you for doing this series. Most of us seem to know that there was an Emu War and that we lost. The running gag is that "And the Cassowaries stayed neutral" (google them, they're basically velociraptors). But we weren't taught about it in school are unlikely to get a homegrown series of this depth. Especially one that's so ready to call us on our racist history (seriously, there was an immigration policy called the White Australia Policy and a referendum held to see if everyone could agree that our indigenous folk were even people and not "local fauna"). So again, thank you, this has been a joy.

@pablotomasllodra4423 Год назад

If the natives were considered “local fauna”, wouldn’t the other Australians plus everyone else from outside be “invasive fauna”. Because humans are animals, after all.

@shonklebonkle324 9 месяцев назад

@@pablotomasllodra4423 by all accounts this doesn't make sense.

@Darkgun231 9 месяцев назад

@@shonklebonkle324 Racists don't make sense. Expecting them to do so is asking for disappointment.

@Nerdnumberone 2 года назад

Those machine guns were great for trench warfare since you needed to cut down an advancing enemy or pin them down for your advance. Emus had no territory to protect and didn't shoot back. They just ran away at 30mph. Unless they had the manpower to defend every source of food and/or water to starve the emus out, the birds could just leave. High bounties would probably be more useful or perhaps they could use the birds as a "training exercise" for the military. Is using bullets on emus any worse than using them on a rifle range?

@kevingriffith6011 2 года назад

I think the only real long term solution to this issue would be to give these communities the ability to defend themselves... if the birds run away when you start shooting, the machine gun should be able to keep them out. Naturally, that opens an entirely different can of worms when it comes to loaning military-grade equipment to civilians, though, not to mention cost of ammunition. (They're just farmers, after all. I don't think they could afford to keep the guns loaded) Really the best solution would be "Just build a better wall" but that's just not exciting.

@andrewsuryali8540 2 года назад

As already pointed out in the first episode, the machine guns were brought in because bounties and individual marksmen didn't work. People tend to underestimate how catastrophic the emu plague was due to the memes and because similar wildlife outbreaks elsewhere have been much easier to deal with. Meredith's initial strategy was actually very well thought out and was EXACTLY the kind of strategy you would have used to deal with usual wildlife outbreaks like deer or boars in, say, North America. The reason why it didn't work is because NOWHERE in the Australian outback has there ever been enough human population density to corral 20k emus the way North American farmers and hunters could with their local wildlife. Australian population today is 26 million occupying 3 goddamn million square miles.

@fakjbf3129 2 года назад

@@andrewsuryali8540 Individual marksmen weren't working when they were relying on farmers and hunters. I wonder how it would have fared if they had sent a few dozen snipers to help coordinate. if they had sent say 20 marksmen and they were each able to take down 2 emus a day, that right there would have been more effective in the long run. And since you could just pick emus off as you went instead of having to spend time corralling large numbers of them together, I doubt they could have performed worse than the plan they actually used. The real question is whether that increased effectiveness would actually have made a difference or it still wouldn't have been enough.

@draco84oz 2 года назад

The bounty system would have probably worked - they had a bounty for Dingos in effect around the same time (which would attack sheep and cattle), and I'll bet you can guess which one of the two species is currently threatened...

@reallyFrogman 2 года назад

They did solve it through bounty work.

@awesomehpt8938 2 года назад

Most people are afraid of aliens or machines taking over the world. But Aussies are afraid of emus taking over the world.

@moonprincess500 2 года назад

Yup

@dylanclarke1498 2 года назад

Truely terrifying

@chameleoncove 2 года назад

Planet of the Emus

@ecurewitz 2 года назад

They should be thankful it wasn't cassowaries

@hangebza6625 2 года назад

I for one would welcome our new avian overlords

@safe-keeper1042 2 года назад

This sounds awfully like a lot of counter-insurgency operations throughout history.

@MI-yy2cg 2 года назад

we have nothing to say about that and neither does MI5

@kestrels-in-the-sky 2 года назад

We also have nothing try someone else

@ItRemindMeOfHome 2 года назад

@@kestrels-in-the-sky, and I'm sure your American counterparts have nothing to say either?

@kestrels-in-the-sky 2 года назад

@@ItRemindMeOfHome no don’t believe so

@PlebNC 2 года назад

@@MI-yy2cg What about the reports that between movies James Bond's main duty is fighting emus?

@Mikebumpful 2 года назад

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how truly awesome Matt is as a narrator? You don’t often get this kind of dynamic narration on RU-vid! And little his efforts at an Aussie accent in this video are cute ☺️

@suzannax 2 года назад

We didn't just lose a war over land, but a war on our species. Well played Emus.

@TremereTT 2 года назад

Australia lost two cities in on going punitive raids executed by the emus coordinated by Emu HQ. The Emu nation has anexed two Australian cities! By the way. Better fences would have helped.

@ello3800 2 года назад

Unrelated to the emus but I wondered why Hello Fresh has been promoting a lot lately, turned out their workers are fighting against the company due to poor work environment/conditions and injury, and insufficient pay. They're not on strike as of yet but they're organizing and have called the NLRB in to vote on unionization. Just FYI

@mikeandnike123 2 года назад

Do you have anywhere I can read more about the workers complaints/demands?

@exeggcutertimur6091 2 года назад

I don't like being 'that person' but do you have a source to back up that claim?

@andreboden1437 2 года назад

@@exeggcutertimur6091 Mate, always be that person, no matter the claim.

@yoremothra9838 2 года назад

@@andreboden1437Maybe not always. Sometimes, it's easier to be the guy who types "hello fresh" and "strike 2021" into their browser, not difficult to find the information at all.

@DarkElfDiva 2 года назад

Am I the only one who's noticed that all, and I do mean ALL, in-video sponsors are really shitty companies?

@samvrooman1432 2 года назад

I like how historians felt the need to add great to the name of the war

@Pyrian 2 года назад

Yeah, apparently there were three soldiers, total.

@jon-paulfilkins7820 2 года назад

Ironically so in most cases ;)

@mckayleepugmire9947 2 года назад

Maybe it was one of those higher ups trying to make it sound cooler.

@colinmerritt7645 11 месяцев назад

3 humans, but 20,000 emus. The greatest single army in emu history! (Well, except for the Emu/Koala war of 1879-80, but we don't like to talk about that.)

@connormclernon26 2 года назад

There’s a story out there where emus get human level intelligence and fully wipe out the Australian Army, artillery, gas, and all

@withersoul3480 2 года назад

Please tell me where I can find this

@tesstickle6974 2 года назад

Link?

@johnmurphy5689 2 года назад

We are waiting for the answer of where you found it Connor McLernon.

@jhonshephard921 2 года назад

not cool dude, you can't just say that and not provide a link

@connormclernon26 2 года назад

@@jhonshephard921 RU-vid deleted the link 5 times. wtouc fihcr fbriu hghsd mggjr xkgvl i is what you want to search for (parsed through an enigma machine, enigma m3, reflector ukw b) as for link, it’s ejlfa tilrj wfnxh eogl

@dakitheyugoslav5383 2 года назад

Australian kids be like: Grandpa when you were soldier who you fighted against? Grandpa:......against.....some.....stupid.....birds.....(embarrased)

@DJl3iohazord 2 года назад

Other Australian grandpa suffering from ptsd: “fucking emus, the trenches where better than that campaign. I still have nightmares of those…things…”

@jasonitaliano8631 2 года назад

Pffft...this happened in WA. Most people in the country didn't care.

@lait3967 2 года назад

“fighted” lol

@gaymermoment 2 года назад

@@lait3967 its a kid

@foam3132 2 года назад

Most worlds national birds: Are said to be strong (virgins) Australian national bird: A true Chad, and with the military capability to take down the country they represent. Can take 5 shots and can still run at top speed. Not even metal wire fencing can stop them. Pees on the crops of their enemies after they are done eating so only the emu and his Bois could enjoy the fruits of his raiding prowess

@santiagovazquezvilarino6791 2 года назад

Our national bird is an architec. Seriously, horneros's nests are awesome

@foam3132 2 года назад

@@santiagovazquezvilarino6791 tru

@foam3132 2 года назад

those are some beautiful nests

@rosiehawtrey 2 года назад

Why am I hearing the training montage from Mulan in my head. ...

@ecurewitz 2 года назад

and when they are done, the will try to sell you car insurance with some guy

@ShinigamiSparda 2 года назад

“Peck around and find out” is something I’m gonna remember for a long time.

@the7observer 2 года назад

Option 1 - sell bolt action rifles to farmers, provide training and use sensible tactics to ward the emus Option 2 - HEAVY MACHINE GUN

@uberdice 2 года назад

Option 3, which ended up working, was putting a bounty on emus and letting local hunters sort it out.

@kx4998 2 года назад

Arming people who are looking to break away from you seems like a horrible idea as well...

@jacobnugent8159 2 года назад

Or you can give farmers machine guns

@heavystalin2419 2 года назад

Option 3: MORE GUN

@thebanana4263 2 года назад

My Great Grand Father served in this war. He was in the 5th Regiment. Tragically he was shot and killed by those damn humans.

@GallowglassVT 2 года назад

Australia effectively feels like nature's very own version of an "enter at your own risk" sign, and that's with just the more homely looking wildlife. Add things like funnel web spiders, blue ringed octopi and all the venomous snakes, and you have a sign lined with barbed wire and several armed guards.

@ferretyluv 2 года назад

Octopodes. Not octopi.

@greensteve9307 2 года назад

@@ferretyluv Correct.

@Marylandbrony 2 года назад

The greatest and most decisive conflict in human history.

@gingusvonshinglesbringer 2 года назад

Yes

@chrisclark6161 2 года назад

It's the final proof that humans aren't the top of any food chain. Birds will replace us. After they extinct us

@wbrennan2253 2 года назад

Gonna toss a couple of grenades here. Congratulations to the emus, drugs and poverty for winning their wars.

@thyhighcomrade2180 2 года назад

Really depressing how those 2 farming towns withered and died due to negligence. Half of those farmers probably starved to death. but it ended on a pretty jolly note.

@erikrungemadsen2081 2 года назад

And that was their payment for fighting in WWI, nothing funny about this, just veterans getting screwed over.

@charliefarmer4365 2 года назад

@@erikrungemadsen2081 On the bright side, the Government just put profitable bounties on the Emus and the farms became profitable again.

@hkchan1339 2 года назад

I’d think they move to another town in search for work, not stave to death

@TehlItER 2 года назад

“When they start shooting, we run away”

@gavinsmith9871 2 года назад

"Sir. You're a genius."

@jacobnugent8159 2 года назад

An absolute genius

@chriscollins9298 2 года назад

A man of culture.

@thesuccessfulone 2 года назад

Birds are basically dinosaurs. Obviously, emus evolved to take on "bullets" with their thick hide in an abstract sense. Not including human populations targeting them with arrows but also if they run 30mph their predators must reach a similar speed to attack. The claws, fangs, and talons of their opponents are probably the size of high caliber bullets, and the force when moving really fast concentrated to a point like a bullet tip or a fang would probably be similar.

@robertjethrogallano1053 2 года назад

Emus, cassowaries, and even ostriches are worthy successors to the prehistoric dinosaurs...... Soooo....anyone wanna genetically modify them for war? XD

@CeeJMantis 2 года назад

Modern cladistics says that birds ARE dinosaurs. They just happen to be amongst the most dino of living birds.

@robertjethrogallano1053 2 года назад

@@CeeJMantis nice

@AverageAwesomeDude 2 года назад

It’s less about their hides and more to do with them having very compact internal organs, so a lot of shots they took were literally “just a flesh wound”. So yeah a very small area of an emus frame was actually worth hitting with a bullet

@chedelirio6984 2 года назад

"Good news, mate, we're sending the Army to deal with your Emu problem." "Brilliant! So, how many batallions?" "Two light machine guns, a truck, and a film crew" "Um, mate, have you seen just how many bloody Emus we're talking about?"

@sjonnieplayfull5859 2 года назад

Twenty thousand emu. How many bullets? Ah right, ten thousand....

@pforgottonsoul 2 года назад

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 not to mention bullets for a machine gun which aren't exactly precise.

@joshuafrimpong244 2 года назад

emus after the war: Two towns have been destroyed, what's next? Peace.

@InhalingWeasel 2 года назад

Yeah right. Next stop - Canberra!

@Julianna.Domina 2 года назад

It's worth noting that their sponsor, Hello Fresh, is currently engaging in wide-spread efforts to repress worker protests and unionization attempts in the US. I, personally, am standing by the workers in boycott. I don't hold that against Extra Credits, because they're likely unaware of exactly what their sponsor is doing, but I think you all have a right to know

@artrobinson9310 2 года назад

Here here!

@kentchamberlain5720 2 года назад

I'm boycotting Hello Fresh because I know how to cook for myself for cheap. But if I didn't, I'd still boycott them after hearing this. No crossing picket lines.

@Vendavalez 2 года назад

And, even if they have become aware of it, they probably signed the sponsorship agreement a couple of months ago and, now that they are signed, there is no backing out without a massive penalty so a double loss.

@user-bi7xd8ry5p 2 года назад

Nah that's just typical RU-vid channel behavior. They go on and on about leftist ideals while being in bed with some very shady companies. PS. Before anyone calls me a conservative I dislike capitalism as much as the next guy but I dislike hypocrisy even more.

@philip8498 2 года назад

Just out of curiosity, any links for that? Like anything thats a bit more official than a youtube comment?

@Ziorac 2 года назад

Just stopping to marvel at this new word that is 'emusculated'. I laughed very hard.

@chriskallen1 2 года назад

This conflict reminds me of the classic Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote struggle. With the humans being Wile E. Coyote, and the fast bird representing the fast birds. And it had more or less the same ending.

@qjames0077 2 года назад

I don't understand how the Australian army didn't start recruiting emos into the army after this If you can't beat em, beak em

@RodExe 2 года назад

Emos were too busy brooding in a corner

@DragoSonicMile 2 года назад

Emus would flat-out refuse. They don't want to be downgraded to Australian military level.

@collingira2524 2 года назад

The real question is if the emus or emos would win

@darter9000 2 года назад

“I’m surry.”

@nolanplaysyt2976 2 года назад

"So nobody would be getting new hats after all" Nice Oversimplified reference

@deamon6681 2 года назад

Not a reference, earlier in the video it was stated that they where ordered to bring 100 hides to make hats.

@Tomartyr 2 года назад

I think the most embarrassing moment was when they decided that sticking their heads in the sand and letting people starve was better than waging war on pests.

@lightningstrike5024 9 месяцев назад

yeah except ppl dont starve in australia, which you would know if you were even remotely knowledgeable

@ryanratchford2530 2 года назад

6:05 this should be the Second Emu War. As the official Australian government officially ended the war then started it afain

@TheDiloEmpire 2 года назад

Exactly what I thought while I was watching the video

@ryanratchford2530 2 года назад

@@TheDiloEmpire how has this gotten past the memers!?

@TheDiloEmpire 2 года назад

@@ryanratchford2530 two emu wars sound so much more impressive than one big emu war

@rayray6490 2 года назад

They were lucky the emus didn’t ally with grizzly bears or chimpanzees. An axis like that cannot be beat

@elbruces 2 года назад

Fortunately all three live on separate continents.

@jjjsalang 2 года назад

@@elbruces , I hope those 3 species do not get any ideas of forming an alliance ......

@mrartdeco 2 года назад

Bismarck would have a plan to win this war… Bismarck always had a plan

@jjjsalang 2 года назад

Unfortunately, Walpole was hired by the emus as a military and logistics consultant. : )

@sathaire8120 2 года назад

Part 2 of the most bloodiest and terrifying war in history

@jameslmathieson 2 года назад

A case study in the result of under or improperly resourcing a fighting force. A platoon of marksmen would have been more effective.

@helenanilsson5666 2 года назад

Or some really good fence builders.

@jameslmathieson 2 года назад

@@helenanilsson5666 Build the wall? Sounds familiar...

@herman1francis 2 года назад

wouldn't it be more efficient to corral them shower them with gasoline and burn them alive?

@helenanilsson5666 2 года назад

@@jameslmathieson stronger fences is why emus aren't such a problem today.

@Bloodlyshiva 2 года назад

@@herman1francis Catching them is a problem, surely?

@JRock2007 2 года назад

The ending of the emu war was controversial, since Australia had no casualties compared to the emu’s 1000 losses of troops. However, the emu army was far greater in size compared to Australia’s forces and never even shown signs of weakening throughout the battles. In the end, though Australia claimed victory in the war, the emu legions never stopped their campaign so it felt more like a masked surrender by the Australians. Which is why I considered the great emu war to have been won by the emus.

@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv 2 года назад

Who would win? The greatest power in the Southern Hemisphere, armed with superior weapons and with a brave and hardy people who thrive in the harsh environment and laugh in the face of danger? OR Some *Beaky Bois*

@justicedunham4088 2 года назад

When you hear that Australia lost the emu war, most people don’t know only 3 soldiers were involved. It seems like a company of crack sharpshooters would have been more efficient

@Hexagonius-js8tl 2 года назад

As an Australian it is nice to see our history being told.

@a50ftfall6 2 года назад

They solved the emu issue by making better fences they now use chain link fences

@sevenguardians7517 2 года назад

In my travels there was this hillbilly that lived in central Texas he ran an emu ranch the fence was 8 feet tall chain link keep those buggers in his well water smelled like a skunk feral hogs ravaged the country side and the pond was infested with water moccasins A real shithole of a emu ranch no idea how he stayed in business

@johnmurphy5689 2 года назад

But the towns of Campion and Walgoolan were abandoned as an consequence of the Emu War. Oh and the Great Depression and droughts were factors in the decline but the 30,000 Emu's moving into the region during the 1930s sealed the fate of the towns.

@a50ftfall6 2 года назад

@@johnmurphy5689 maybe just those towns but let's face it those towns were already kind of declining

@BillMcD 2 года назад

@@sevenguardians7517 you underestimate how hardy emus are.

@sevenguardians7517 2 года назад

@@BillMcD no they had to be hardy to live there just wondered how this guy had any business since his land was such a hazard

@steaksoldier 2 года назад

small details like getting lee enfield rifles and lewis guns accurately depicted in thier art style really makes this channel special

@cheezemonkeyeater 2 года назад

"Today was the dawn of the Emu War." Which, spoiler alert, they also lost.

@Ggdivhjkjl 2 года назад

Actually, Britain told Western Australia that Parliament in Melbourne would have to approve succession. Perth is still waiting for a reply.

@joashex69 2 года назад

I remember reading that they eventually used a bounty program that was a lot more effective at culling emu numbers after the failed emu war

@dylanclarke1498 2 года назад

Press f to pay respect for the Australian farmers. May we never forget the carnage of the emu 😢

@DragoniteSpam 2 года назад

You could put literally any frame of art from this video on a shirt and I'd probably buy it in a heartbeat.

@EnclaveSoldier2201 2 года назад

I stayed up for this.... AND IT WAS COMPLETELY WORTH IT!

@Yes-vx2un Год назад

UN: and now a proposition from the security council to create a map highlighting all countries that lost a war against birds China and Australia: *sweats nervously*

@DamonNomad82 2 года назад

The Great Emu War, or Australia sings "We fought the Emus and the Emus won!"

@frozeneevee 2 года назад

I had no idea before learning about the war how tough Emus are, I can see why they were so hard to take down even with a machine gun.

@punelopepunstop5515 2 года назад

Sir George Pearce (to reporters): Good news! I’ve just received a report that those bird-brained buffoons are on their last legs!” Reporter: “To which bird-brained buffoons are you referring to Sir: the ones with or without feathers?”

@Pixelated321 2 года назад

The most powerful weapon against emus: a really good fence

@ecurewitz 2 года назад

except they didn't work

@kayeka4123 2 года назад

@@ecurewitz It did, actually, once they started building them stronger and higher. Emus might be very impressive birds, but they haven't yet figured out how to use a ladder.

@insaincaldo 2 года назад

Dawn of the Emu War, just makes me glee with the thought of a 40K Imperial Dreadnought dropping on these murder birds.

@theincrediblemd9761 2 года назад

The emus showed heart, determination, passion and grit

@MarcelineRaven 2 года назад

Okay when the enemy comes, we run away.

@GeneralLuigiTBC 2 года назад

Kutuzov was a genius. Clearly the emus learned of his exploits.

@beartube1984 2 года назад

"Heck around and find out" has to be THE greatest line of all time!

@alexv3357 2 года назад

0:43 Hearing this I can't help but remember the old "Cows With Guns" animation's last line: The order was given to turn cows to whoppers, enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers. But on the horizon, surrounding the shoppers, came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

@dovakiin296 2 года назад

It's very American of the Australians to think a pest problem can only be solved with automatic weapons.

@setcheck67 2 года назад

Americans wouldn't think Automatic weapons. We'd think drone strikes and intervention sniper rifles.

@andyjay729 2 года назад

@@setcheck67 Well, some of the farmers apparently suggested dropping bombs on them from airplanes (less than a decade before WW2).

@kentchamberlain5720 2 года назад

The UK wanted to make a new Britain in the Pacific, but only succeeded in making another America, this time on a continent with poisonous everything.

@dovakiin296 2 года назад

@@setcheck67 Drone strikes are modern military, and only used in countries that aren't our own. Sniper rifles are nice, but probably not on dozens of fast-moving Emu. It's either Assault Rifles, Fifty cals mounted on the backs of jeeps, or a methed-up crack-head with a knife and a dream. As a Floridian, I've seen what all 3 can do.

@potentialsideeffects1085 2 года назад

Gwynydd. A name this long with no vowels deserves more appreciation.

@SmartChannel01 2 года назад

Y is sometimes a vowel

@nicolasinvernizzi6140 2 года назад

is that welsh?

@potentialsideeffects1085 2 года назад

@@SmartChannel01 In Spanish, y is called "i Griega," which literally translates to "Greek i."

@DavidChipman 2 года назад

@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 It certainly sounds it.

@Ghiaman1334 2 года назад

Thank you for the phrase 'emusculated', I love it

@7HatimF16 2 года назад

What sad ending to those villages , some of the farmers probably starved to death damn those emus

@poilboiler 2 года назад

Declaring premature victory and then having to run away in defeat leaving the place worse off than when they started fighting? Hmmmmmm.

@orenges 2 года назад

What if they got a bigger army, and used snipers and shotguns instead of MGs?

@For3xampleJohn 2 года назад

Why not nuke em

@loke6664 2 года назад

Still not feasible. Shotguns don't have the range for the job. Snipers do but you only kills one at a time and the emu are smart enough to move out when you kill one of them. So yeah, maybe get better fences instead?

@Carole_Baskin 2 года назад

@@loke6664 No theyre not. Emus are dumb af. They get over fences by falling over them.

@loke6664 2 года назад

@@Carole_Baskin They are not that dumb, they out strategized the Australian Army by running into different directions after all and even had lookouts.

@loke6664 2 года назад

@Liam Tran Uh, wouldn't that make the crops radioactive too? Yeah, it would kill the Emus but the main priority was to make the crops safe. Besides, you probably would end up with radioactive mutant emus.

@justarandomusername4115 2 года назад

“AND TURN THEM ALL INTO FEATHER HATS” *”GASP”*

@rammuertoanimations4664 2 года назад

Emu commando: "Prepare to be emu-scalated"

@Meshakhad 2 года назад

Am I the only one who thought that they should have switched from wheat farming to emu herding?

@rudrakshgupta6028 2 года назад

They should have just weaponised the emus honestly EDIT: Oh wait, then the emus would end up weaponising them

@craigporter8873 2 года назад

Fun Fact: A location of a British nuclear bomb test in the outback of Australia is called Emu Field. A coincidence ? I think not, ultimate victory was achieved eventually.

@kittycatkyla2344 2 года назад

Here's the thing about the emu: they are big, but their organs are very closely compacted under layers and layers of fat and muscles. Because of that, the bullets didn't do mortal damage most of the time. It took multiple rounds from a *machine gun* to down 1 bird. How I got this info is from Casual Geographic "Cassowarie's are truly the spawn of Satan" video (2:08 if anyone's interested in some emu facts)

@davidtownsend6092 2 года назад

Did you guys know in all of emu military history, they have a 100% win rate

@inpinksuit 2 года назад

Oh god

@davidwright7193 2 года назад

Short version: The Emu’s won…

@Scotch20 2 года назад

short version: it turns out you can kill emus with machine guns, but three guys isn't enough to kill 20000 birds yes the townfolk weren't enough either, but this was supposed to be the short answer

@jaydenmckay2758 2 года назад

You guys had so much fun with this one and it shows. Love it.

@ianh1504 2 года назад

You forgot to include the end of the emu war, where a bounty was placed on their heads for farmers to claim, which resulted in UTTER EMU ANNIHILATION something like 27k bounties got paid out i think?

@zachfausett3693 2 года назад

"Drive an entire species to near extinction with high caliber automatic weapons" sounds extremely dramatic. After this whole campaign they managed to kill 1,000? maybe 2,000 birds? In 1934, over 57,000 emus were killed by civilians to collect a bounty.

@anderskorsback4104 2 года назад

A veritable triumph of privatization.

@Nortisverikool 2 года назад

I love these Videos, They keep me Educated and Entertained in the Lockdown, the most Amazing war in the world: The Great Emu War, SIGN ME UP!

@k3kboi665 2 года назад

1:59 a slow biplane doing strafes would of propably done wonders!

@adamiotime 2 года назад

"Emusculation" 🤣 That actually made me laugh aloud

@imjessietr29 2 года назад

I truly feel for the farmers but Goddamn, this is the funniest thing ever.

@sjonnieplayfull5859 2 года назад

They should have farmed emu meat...

@Anthintendo 2 года назад

The Great Emu war is probably one of the only on-record accounts of humans attempting to “fight” against another species. I wonder how many other human v. wars have happened in our history that we just don’t know about.

@223Drone 2 года назад

*Emu's exist* Australia: "Why do I hear boss music?"

@WalterWhiteFootballSharing 2 года назад

If you haven't checked out 'potential history' version please do so. Great channel for modern military memes. But we just cant get enough of this emu war!

@mckayleepugmire9947 2 года назад

You know what makes this even sillier: if they'd let the aborigines veterans join the program they could've told people how to deal with the emus in a less embarrassing way.

@LinguaPhiliax 2 года назад

That is assuming one of them didn't have an emu totem. If he did, he probably wouldn't have taken part.

@mckayleepugmire9947 2 года назад

@@LinguaPhiliax Fair, though even then surely that person would've known how to prevent or alleviate the havoc on the farms.

@christopherfleetwood5252 2 года назад

Headshots and kneecapping with rifles would have worked wonders. 😅

@Numba003 2 года назад

Australian wildlife defeats humanity once again lol. Thank you for another fun video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

@SimplyDudeFace 2 года назад

Emu-sculated is my new favorite word.

@BobHerzog1962 2 года назад

All hail the great Emu Nation!

@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 2 года назад

Who's rooting for the Emus?

@anemu3819 2 года назад

@Menno_3 2 года назад

I'm rooting for the farmers who were starving to death

@anemu3819 2 года назад

@@Menno_3 but why?

@inpinksuit 2 года назад

@KingKelebra 2 года назад

Mate you left out that alot of farmers beat the emu's. They just built higher and stronger fences.

@elbruces 2 года назад

More of a cold war then.

@sarahellie4113 2 года назад

2:24 THEY TURNED THEM INTO FEATHERED HATS

@Taospark Год назад

This isn't the only time that a huge animal population made such a big military impact; a group of nomadic herdsmen raiders hurt Egypt during the Middle Ages far more than other invaders simply due to their massive herd of goats wiping out harvests and farms as they moved across the Nile for other lands.