Emu is a unique species of Australia, tall, good at running, known as the Australian ostrich. Emus, widely distributed in Australia, often invade human territory, destroy fences in farmland, steal food, destroy crops, and drink potable water from livestock, often invading human territory, and drinking water for livestock.
Australia's Midwest is a vast desert, there is not much water, there are emus to fight. Emus are tall, walking in droves, not afraid of humans at all, can not be driven away. In 1932, Australia's government received a complaint from local residents and entrusted the task of destroying emu to the Royal Artillery Corps's Seventh Artillery Company.
The major thought the emu army was defenseless, sending only two soldiers, each with a Lewis machine gun and 10000 rounds, to fight back against a 20, 000 emu army. But when they had just exchanged fire with the emus, the emus broke out at a speed of 70 kilometers an hour. Five days later, the soldiers consumed 5000 rounds of ammunition and killed only 300 emus.
Even if the first war failed, the newspapers carried out a lot of coverage, causing the military to lose face, so there was a second war. This time it hasn't changed, with 9900 rounds killing only 986 emus, and finally issuing a reward: kill an emu and reward 2 marks.
The war lasted more than 30 years, and by 1964, Australia's army and farmers had shot and killed 14000 emus, a slight curtailment of emus' expansion. By the 1980s, human weapons had become more sophisticated, with 50,000 emus falling under human guns. The Emu War ended in 1988 when Australia's government legislation protected emus and allowed residents to breed them.