The Great Emu War

In 1932… Australia faced a crisis. A strange one. And almost nobody today believes it

actually happened. <break time="1.0s" /> Farmland in Western Australia was under attack. Not by soldiers.

Not by invaders. But by emus. Tens of thousands of them. Huge.

Fast. Hungry. <break time="1.0s" /> They stormed farmland like an army made of feathers.

They crushed fences. Trampled crops. And left chaos behind wherever they moved. <break time="1.0s" /> Farmers begged the

government for help. And the government responded with something unbelievable. <break time="1.0s" /> They sent soldiers.

With machine guns. To fight… birds. <break time="1.0s" /> The first battle began. Bullets flew.

The emus ran. And the soldiers discovered a big problem. These birds were