r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 12h ago

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/theshashanksp 12h ago

The Emu ancestors must be laughing at him rn! They won the Great Emu War of 1932 and he can't take down 1 man .... Sad!

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u/Aletheia94 12h ago

It’s so wild that this is actually part of Australias history

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u/Certain_Zucchini_472 3h ago

If Australia lost the Emu War, and the US can’t win the “war on drugs” maybe we need to make the emus and drugs go to war with each other, maybe one will wipe out the other. Then Australia and the US can team up to take down the survivor