In 1932, Australia went to war against emus (the emus won)

In late 1932, approximately 20,000 emus descended on the wheat farms of Western Australia's Campion district, destroying crops and punching holes in fences that let rabbits through. The farmers, many of them WWI veterans, knew exactly what to ask for: machine guns. — Read the rest

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