The Great Emu War of 1932: How 20,000 flightless birds outsmarted the Australian army | World News
In 1932, the Government of Australia entered into an unconventional ‘war’ with an unexpected adversary, namely, a large population of approximately 20,000 emus, as reported in Australian Geographic. The emus would migrate from their traditional migratory range to the wheat-growing region of Western Australia after the economic collapse of the Great Depression caused many ex-soldier…