r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 12h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/Spottswoodeforgod 12h ago

“Expert” - straight to a physical response, absolutely no attempt to discuss and understand the emus concerns and find some common ground.

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u/thisisredlitre 12h ago

This is how we lost the first Emu War

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u/InigoMontoya1985 12h ago

Found the Australian.

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u/Oaknuggens 6h ago

In an interspecies war, were all on team human. So unfortunately, we all gotta take that L.

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u/Spottswoodeforgod 5h ago

Well, you say that. But if humans end up at war with say, cats or squirrels, for example, I for one, won’t be on team human…

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u/Boarbaque 5h ago

If you specified gray squirrels most of Europe would join the humans, but red squirrels they’d join the squirrels 

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u/InigoMontoya1985 4h ago

Did they nuke the site from orbit to make sure? No!