Australia Declared War On Birds... And Lost

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Australia once declared war on birds and lost.

[00:00:04]No, seriously.

[00:00:06]In 1932, nearly 20,000 emus began destroying farms across Western Australia.

[00:00:12]So, the government sent soldiers armed with machine guns to wipe them out.

[00:00:17]It sounded easy.

[00:00:18]But whenever the soldiers got close, the emus scattered and escaped.

[00:00:23]Thousands of rounds were fired. The emus kept winning.

[00:00:27]Eventually, the military gave up.

[00:00:29]The birds stayed.

[00:00:31]Today, it's remembered as the Great Emu War.

[00:00:34]The war Australia somehow lost to birds.