The Great Emu War: When Australia Declared War on Birds (and Lost!)
Picture this scenario: the year is 1932. The Australian outback, vast and unforgiving, is facing an invasion. Not of soldiers or tanks, but of feathered adversaries – a colossal population of emus, numbering in the tens of thousands. These flightless giants, with their powerful legs and insatiable appetites, were descending upon the farmlands of Western … Read more