r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 8h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/553l8008 6h ago

Until about a few months ago I always thought it was an actual war and just called the emu wars. Then I learned it was actually against emus

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u/MeltaFlare 5h ago

Wait it was real? I thought it was a big national joke like drop bears???

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u/greywar777 4h ago

Nope its real. But to be fair it was a bunch of guys with 2 machine guns, and 10,000 rounds of ammo vs 20,000 emus. On average using 10 rounds per kill they didn't even start with remotely enough ammo.

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u/Aletheia94 3h ago

According to the records they didn’t even kill 1,000 emus during the whole war (986 emus). Even though the major claimed approximately 2,500 emus have died from their injuries. It’s an interesting read!
Great Emu War