@@Demuu2I've seen a emu fuck up a backpacker that got too close to a emu nest. Scratch him up with its talons, we where we where able to fight it off and dragged the idiot back onti the truck an rushed him to the flying doctors. Advice if you come to Australia, think before you act and have some bloody common sense. I've seen so many tourists get bit by snakes, spiders, poisonous jellyfish and messing with Emus that people around where i an just treat these people like children. Too bad they never listen.
@@rafabuda0most active birds have darker meat, they're more aerobic/slow twitch muscles because they're actually used. Flightless or mostly ground dwelling birds have "white meat" breasts purely because they aren't used for flight, and aren't as vascularized and have significantly less myoglobin. Canada Goose has the nickname "Flying Prime Rib" for a reason.
I live in America and close to where I am someone opened an emu farm to sell specialty meats. The farm lasted for about a decade, but when the owner died, no one wanted to keep it going, so it went out of business. I’ve eaten plenty of emu jerky and I’ve had it in burgers. They just taste like a really lean beef.
First, peer pressure always works. Second, some politicians who saw this whole debacle recommended medals be given to the emus. Third, if you like this you will certainly love the channel Oversimplified.
I can't recommend Oversimplified enough.. Sam O'Nella is funny and entertaining, but Oversimplified is on another level plus far more accurate history wise and gives more information about events.
She said it was like CoD zombies and that sounds amazing. Someone needs to make a parody game where you play as Australian soldiers trying to survive the emu onslaught.
Australia has an entire desert filled with feral camels, around 3,00,000 or so. We have so many of them that we actually export them to places like Egypt.
wow, never heard of that. Gotta say, when you think of Australia camels are not the first thing that springs to mind. For one, camels aren't venomous ^^
Middle eastern and asian countries started exporting camels from here instead of africa due to our camels being isolated away from many of the diseases destroying their camel populations ours are healthy and thriving which is food grade many of these countries eat camel we had about 600,000 feral camels here in 2018 and export about 10,000-25,000 a year
Laughed so hard when he impersonated the Australian farmer when he said that “it was a nice change of pace to have the kids eat the dingos for once..” 😂
You can find emus here in the states on farms. My dad's cousin had an emu farm when I was a kid. They're good eating, emu meat is lower in cholesterol, fat, and calories. Emu oil is good for helping wounds heal because it's high in fatty acids omega-3,6, and 9 which helps nourish skin cells as well as antioxidants that may help protect the skin from further damage.
@@blacktemplarbrotherlucius1935 top tier entertainment. One person throws it in chat, half the chat runs with it like its common knowledge. Best part was the 'might be able to detoxify' comment.
I normally like Sam O Nella videos, but I have to consider this one one of his weaker videos.. mostly because this event has been covered by other youtube channels in better ways.. Like, the Emu War is all kinds of hilarious with what led up to it, why it happened the way it did, and the aftermath.. and a 5 minute video did not do it justice at all. Oversimplifed, Extra History, and Puppet History all did this subject better imho.
I like to believe that ratites (birds like emu, ostrich, cassowary, etc.) all remember that they were at one point dinosaurs. And theyre mad humanity is in control.
Oversimplified and Sam O'Nella. Those two are some of my favorite youtubers and if you like weird running gags and weird history, youll like them. Oversimplified for more history, but still both.
As an Australian, I'd just like to point out that unlike the majority of nations (there may be a few), Australia is one of the few that actually *eats* it's national animals. Seriously, both Emu and Kangaroo meat can be bought (though honestly not that common) which I always find hilarious when I think of how other nations venerate their great animals, the Aussie looks at our coat of arms and thinks: "Yup, thats good eattin'"
Indeed kangaroo is super common don't think i've seen a shopping centre that did not stock various types of it (QLD/NSW) for those that haven't eaten it kangaroo is lean and sweet "beef" healthier and arguably better for some uses like stirfry Only seen one place that had emu tho it was precut it tastes sorta like lamb with a gamey tang
Just a reminder, emus have very few predators, only being hunted by dingoes and wedge-tailed eagles before humans tried hunting them, and yet they have smarter survival tactics than most prey animals.
Australia really is wild. We straight up lost a prime minister once. He just went swimming and didn't come back. To honor him, we named a swimming pool after him.
As an Australian myself I would sooner get into a knife fight with cassius clay before i would think about going toe to toe with an emu those birds scare me
First things first congratulations on beating cancer🎉 I hope the best for you. Now second things second the channel Oversimplified talks on this topic and it is very well done He also does other very fun and interesting topics throughout history That I think you will enjoy.
I am currently in an RP campaign where, after a magical apocalypse gives everyone videogame stats and powers, the Emus formed a Star Wars style evil empire to take over Australia in the Second Great Emu War. I am an American tourist who joined the resistance while gaining Sith powers and a lightsaber to fight the Emu's leader(? might be more thier Darth Vader) for the title of the one true master of the Dark Side.
No matter how scary Emus are, at least they are not Cassowaries! They are great runners, jumpers, even climb and swim. When they reach you, they do swipe on your card reader...no wait i meant to say they swipe your belly area with their razor sharp claws, creating open wound from where your insides escape to outside.
There was also the teeny-tiny problem that most of the farmers there were ex-soldiers who had served in WW1 and had been promised land to make a living for their service. These birds wrecking everything and eating their crops (not to mention damaging fences that let in even MORE critters) and the government's lackluster response made a lot of them REALLY angry and you know, once you have a lot of angry former soldiers, many of which still have their service weapons because they live in the damn Outback and need to defend themselves from predators and roving Ned Kelly types, you have the building blocks of an uprising.
People in chat saying emu is inedible either have no idea what they're talking about or they're fucking with you because emu is 100% edible, in fact a lot of people farm them for their meat.
Just a reminder the actual feathered descendant of the Utah Raptor the Cassowary is closely related to Emu and Ostrich. Yes they have talons, yes they will kill you.
we had 2 emu on the family farm and they totally move like "Raptors" from Jurassic Park. In quotations because I cannot remember how much the CG movie threats actually looked like a real dino.
The Utah raptor doesn't have a descendent. Birds are closely related to dromaeosaurids (the group that includes Utah raptor), but they likely did not descend directly from them. The current consensus is that birds are closer related to Troodontids than to dromaeosaurids, and likely descended from a Troondontid or they share a direct common ancestor. As for the Utah raptor's line of descendants, it probably couldn't compete with new massive theropod hypercarnivores and downsized a bit. The later Dakotaraptor and Dromaeosaurus are both closely related large dromaeosaurids, but they were a fair bit lighter and less robust than Utahraptor. Utahraptor had no large theropod hypercarnivores, so it could be a very large and heavy raptor, but it's descendants had to co-exist with Tyrannosaurus Rex. As for it's likely line of descendants, Dakotaraptor was one of the last surviving dromaeosaurids but they too went extinct at the end of the Maastrichtian when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event happened.
Have you seen OverSimplified? He’s covered the Emu War over on his channel as well. He’s also covered WWII, Henry the VIII and my personal favorite The Pig War. Which was fought between Great Britain and The United States after some guy’s prize pig was killed.
Emus are like that cuz they (and their ostrich/cassowary/etc cousins) are very aware that they're dinosaurs, and are determined to live up to that fact.
So I'm not exactly a gun nut, but I'd think a 700 Nitro Express, or a 4-bore round would be the ideal for this. Those rounds are specifically made for taking down extremely tough animals. The 4-bore in particular was used for when you're big game hunting. It was a rifle you'd carry in case your prey charges you and you _need_ that sucker to _STOP_ like _right. now._ Also, get one of your best marksmen and give them a rifle so that you don't waste bullets. Have your sniper pick emu's off from distance.
If you like historical but funny nerd stuff like this I highly recommend Count Dankula's Absolute Mad Lads series, he covers everything from folk hero legends to cults to animal war heroes
To put it into perspective, Australian division was cut off from supply and surrounded by German army in Africa and that division held their defenses for much longer than Emu War was going. Basically - Emus are a menace
I think checking out a one video topic from him would be a better way to get a first impression of his content. Then if she (or whoever you are really) likes it she could check out more of what he’s made. The Great Emu War, The Football War and The War That Changed The English Language are all great one video topics he’s covered that gives a great impression of what kinda content he makes and what kinda person he is.
Funny to see so many people who know nothing about emu meat. Emu meat is not poisonous, it's actually quite good. Similar to ostrich or very slightly gamier, though that depends on how it's cooked.
I’d suggest using shotguns with slugs for emus. Slugs are a kind of shotgun ammo that’s closer to a traditional bullet, but it’s pretty big so while the effective range isn’t great, it’s very good at doing damage and punching through armor, and if it can go through armor, it can go through a bird. If the emus’s survivability is more about being able to withstand a lot of damage rather than being hard to penetrate, then traditional buckshot is better for just creating a bunch of little holes for every shot
One of only two countries to lose a war to birds. And while bats aren't birds, Project X-Ray would have made a third country to lose a war involving flying creatures if it wasn't one of the most insane ideas in all of human history 😂😂
I’m guessing they were using Vickers machine guns. They usually have 3 man teams so they can manage ammo and have another guy to rotate the hot barrel out and replace it with a cool one. 3 guys with 2 Vickers = bad time.
@@lawaern3474 Wild guess. My grandad was in a Vickers crew; when they talked about the guns failing in the vid I remembered him talking about operating them. But if they’re Lewis, then they’re Lewis!
@@freefall945 It was a good guess. But they're big and cumbersome things, typically mounted on huge tripods. The lighter lewis gun would have been more handy for moving around with.
There was a similar bounty situation used in Yellowstone, because wolves were considered a nuisance to farm animals and general safety. They put a bounty out and the wolves were completely wiped out by people in no time. Unfortunately, this meant the deer no longer had real predators, and their population exploded, meaning deer were now destroying farms and vegetation everywhere. So, they airlifted replacement wolves to feast on the deer and bring the environment back into a stable ecosystem.
The fact that they were “running out of ammo” using 7.62 to hunt large birds is baffling to me i think they could tank around 5 rounds on average before being fazed by it which is crazy
Just because Alicia asked about if you can eat Emu. I don't know about the logistics about bullet filled emu, but emu meat is safe to eat and is a great, more healthy alternative to beef. It has a similar taste and texture to lean beef, but is lower in calories, cholesterol, and doesn't suffer from other common health concerns that are typically associated with red meat. Emu is also very tender.
7:30 Actually emu meat is edible. It is a celebration ceremonial food of the aboriginal nations. In uni the aboriginal support organization used to have barbecues with kangaroo and emu meats.
Australian here, Emu's are absolutely not to be messed with. They're huge (second largest bird in the world just under Ostriches), they're smart and they're deadly when they want to be. Having been up close with a few and feeding them at a zoo, I would never want to encounter one in the wild. And yes, they won the war. Bullet sponge buggers. That said, I'd much rather encounter an Emu than their distant cousins, the third largest bird in the world (and also calls Australia home) the Cassowary. If you ever learn about it, I'll be here for the sheer unyielding terror those things instill in everyone.
Wtf now im scared of emu's in Minecraft (definitely a mod of that somewhere i guess) literally called a mob when group together the damn horder bugs ain't got shit on them it seems lol
one of the things left out- most of the farmers were retired soldiers so they went to the army to fix the emu problem instead of some other government department like interior or agriculture. the solution in the end was building stronger fences around the farms. The Army Way is not always the best way.
As a person living in regional Australia, can confirm: SKRAW SKRAW! Ahem. I mean, yes, emus are right bastards. There's also the cassowary. Which is like an angrier emu. With velociraptor claws. Yes, everything in this damn country is trying to kill us. Skraw.
Alicia I only recently just started watching you from your Rick and Morty reactions (seriously how the hell did you predict so many of its story beats and plot twists??). But I wanted to congratulate you on beating cancer! That’s fantastic!
Hey Alicia, I just wanted to give you my huge congratulations on beating your cancer, I was really hoping you would. I love your content, you're my #1 favorite reactor, keep plugging Alicia and keep rocking.
I've always taken issue with the notion that Australia "lost" the Emu War. They didn't. They did not take any casualties, they did not lose any territory, and their government remained intact. The only sense in which they "lost" was that they set out to kill emus, and didn't kill very many.
Also we Aussies enjoy the memes about us living in a crazy horror land… But seriously, we have a bunch of snakes and spiders but no large terrestrial predators. There’s dingos, which are basically just wild dogs. In US and Canada you have bears and mountain lions and wolves! Emu war has nothing on those crazy times in the Middle Ages where wolves were forming packs like armies and laying siege to towns!
I have worked in a bakery where we made keto donuts. I can't say if they were any good though. Because we didn't like making or tasting them. But they were extremely popular with keto people to the point that we always sold out before anything else. I can't help but imagine that the keto people we're so desperate for sweets that anything was better than nothing.
Ten bullets for each emu would be considered highly successful exchange in a modern war. In WWII it's estimated that 25,000 rounds of small arms ammo for every casualty inflicted. In Korea that doubled to 50,000 rounds. Artillery, mines, bombs etc do more damage but not things you want to use on people's farms.
If you’d be interested in reacting to more historical stuff, I’d recommend Oversimplified. He did a video on the emu war too, as well as some similarly length (
If you like another reaction of "how can they all suck so much?" then you should consider History of Everything's "Aeroflot - Russia's airline of doom".
Can confirm that as an Australian I don't understand how Australia exists, it's more deep boonies areas and old suburbs are like Florida in which anomalous, random encounters occur
"Is it edible" Oh, you sweet summer child. We are humans. Anything is edible to us. Our stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve steel, and the only reason your stomach can withstand it, is not because the lining inside can withstand said acid. It simply regenerates faster than it is dissolved by it. So to ask, "is it edible?" Will always be answered with "Yes." However, if you ask about nutritional value, well that is a whole different story.
you should REALLY follow this up with Oversimplified the Emu War, but, in general Oversimplified is a GREAT channel. as a Canadian you might like "The PIg War" where the US nearly invaded Canada over the San Juan Islands off BC/Washington
We all laugh at the emu war, but holy shit looking deeper into it they are fucking terrifying.
Well I mean as all Birds Emu are descendents from Dinosaurs therefore technically this Emu war is Humans against Dinosaurs for probably the first time
but will it be the last?@@Demuu2
@@TheJerbolprobably not
@@Demuu2I've seen a emu fuck up a backpacker that got too close to a emu nest. Scratch him up with its talons, we where we where able to fight it off and dragged the idiot back onti the truck an rushed him to the flying doctors.
Advice if you come to Australia, think before you act and have some bloody common sense. I've seen so many tourists get bit by snakes, spiders, poisonous jellyfish and messing with Emus that people around where i an just treat these people like children.
Too bad they never listen.
@@Demuu2 Ok, but why do Australians keep losing to other animals? Cane Toads, Mice, Feral Cats ... I think there might be more.
“It tastes a lot like beef even though it's a bird,” quote from Todd Green, a zoologist at Oklahoma State University who has studied emus for a decade
Huh, I've heard someone describe an ostritch like this. Maybe it's a ratite thing
@@rafabuda0most active birds have darker meat, they're more aerobic/slow twitch muscles because they're actually used. Flightless or mostly ground dwelling birds have "white meat" breasts purely because they aren't used for flight, and aren't as vascularized and have significantly less myoglobin.
Canada Goose has the nickname "Flying Prime Rib" for a reason.
@@b.c.2281 lol I thought the "slow twitch muscle" thing was an asspull that racists uses to describe why white people suck at sport.
I live in America and close to where I am someone opened an emu farm to sell specialty meats. The farm lasted for about a decade, but when the owner died, no one wanted to keep it going, so it went out of business. I’ve eaten plenty of emu jerky and I’ve had it in burgers. They just taste like a really lean beef.
Emu meat is not that bad it's very close to chicken a little harder and with a slight bitterness in some parts of the bird.
First, peer pressure always works. Second, some politicians who saw this whole debacle recommended medals be given to the emus. Third, if you like this you will certainly love the channel Oversimplified.
That would be perfect
Oh my GOD yes!!
I can't recommend Oversimplified enough.. Sam O'Nella is funny and entertaining, but Oversimplified is on another level plus far more accurate history wise and gives more information about events.
I definitely recommend his WW1 and 2 videos
Or the channel Blue Jay
She said it was like CoD zombies and that sounds amazing. Someone needs to make a parody game where you play as Australian soldiers trying to survive the emu onslaught.
Their is a game on steam called STRAYA and there is legitimately a mission in that game where you get almost exactly that
Make it so you can play as an emu trying to fight the evil australians.
Australia has an entire desert filled with feral camels, around 3,00,000 or so. We have so many of them that we actually export them to places like Egypt.
wow, never heard of that. Gotta say, when you think of Australia camels are not the first thing that springs to mind. For one, camels aren't venomous ^^
@@Zabiru- not venomous, but they do spit at you which is good enough
Middle eastern and asian countries started exporting camels from here instead of africa due to our camels being isolated away from many of the diseases destroying their camel populations ours are healthy and thriving which is food grade many of these countries eat camel
we had about 600,000 feral camels here in 2018 and export about 10,000-25,000 a year
Laughed so hard when he impersonated the Australian farmer when he said that “it was a nice change of pace to have the kids eat the dingos for once..” 😂
You can find emus here in the states on farms. My dad's cousin had an emu farm when I was a kid. They're good eating, emu meat is lower in cholesterol, fat, and calories. Emu oil is good for helping wounds heal because it's high in fatty acids omega-3,6, and 9 which helps nourish skin cells as well as antioxidants that may help protect the skin from further damage.
Its hilarious hearing people say Emu meat is poisonous.
@@blacktemplarbrotherlucius1935 top tier entertainment. One person throws it in chat, half the chat runs with it like its common knowledge.
Best part was the 'might be able to detoxify' comment.
Love seeing Alicia embrace the Sam O Nella videos, they are always pure joy.
He only posts like once a year now, but every time he does the entire internet rejoices
@@marieporter9488 ye, it's always the best time of year when he posts a new video
I normally like Sam O Nella videos, but I have to consider this one one of his weaker videos.. mostly because this event has been covered by other youtube channels in better ways.. Like, the Emu War is all kinds of hilarious with what led up to it, why it happened the way it did, and the aftermath.. and a 5 minute video did not do it justice at all. Oversimplifed, Extra History, and Puppet History all did this subject better imho.
I like to believe that ratites (birds like emu, ostrich, cassowary, etc.) all remember that they were at one point dinosaurs. And theyre mad humanity is in control.
All birds are still dinosaurs.
@mjm3091 yes but ratites specifically remembered
All birds are evil
Doesn't really give the Australians a good excuse for losing since they lost to other animals too
Oversimplified and Sam O'Nella. Those two are some of my favorite youtubers and if you like weird running gags and weird history, youll like them. Oversimplified for more history, but still both.
Bluejay also does similar content.
@@Pylo-ry6ffyup
Thanks Alicia, all i can think of now is "A Emu ate my baby"
As an Australian, I'd just like to point out that unlike the majority of nations (there may be a few), Australia is one of the few that actually *eats* it's national animals. Seriously, both Emu and Kangaroo meat can be bought (though honestly not that common) which I always find hilarious when I think of how other nations venerate their great animals, the Aussie looks at our coat of arms and thinks: "Yup, thats good eattin'"
you can definitely eat bear meat in finland too, though it's also fairly rare, as hunting bear is heavily regulated
kangaroo is reasonably common in supermarkets at least in Western Australia.
In Denmark we do tend to joke about the national bird being half a fried chicken on a bed of French fries if that counts.
Indeed kangaroo is super common don't think i've seen a shopping centre that did not stock various types of it (QLD/NSW) for those that haven't eaten it kangaroo is lean and sweet "beef" healthier and arguably better for some uses like stirfry
Only seen one place that had emu tho it was precut it tastes sorta like lamb with a gamey tang
The three F's always win any argument.
Just a reminder, emus have very few predators, only being hunted by dingoes and wedge-tailed eagles before humans tried hunting them, and yet they have smarter survival tactics than most prey animals.
Australia really is wild. We straight up lost a prime minister once. He just went swimming and didn't come back. To honor him, we named a swimming pool after him.
New meaning to mob psycho 100.
This anime is literally just a hundred goddamn emus pull up on anything. They just mob you down from the void.
As an Australian myself
I would sooner get into a knife fight with cassius clay before i would think about going toe to toe with an emu those birds scare me
As an Australian I confirm you do not mess with emu's or any Aussie animal for that matter (besides daddy long legs they chill af)
"Brother! The cursed Emus have won."
"I shall call an Exterminatus 💀"
First things first congratulations on beating cancer🎉 I hope the best for you. Now second things second the channel Oversimplified talks on this topic and it is very well done He also does other very fun and interesting topics throughout history That I think you will enjoy.
I am currently in an RP campaign where, after a magical apocalypse gives everyone videogame stats and powers, the Emus formed a Star Wars style evil empire to take over Australia in the Second Great Emu War. I am an American tourist who joined the resistance while gaining Sith powers and a lightsaber to fight the Emu's leader(? might be more thier Darth Vader) for the title of the one true master of the Dark Side.
Damn first there was e-girls and e-boys, but now we got e-mews? Damn I really mustve missed that part of the Pokemon lore.
No matter how scary Emus are, at least they are not Cassowaries!
They are great runners, jumpers, even climb and swim. When they reach you, they do swipe on your card reader...no wait i meant to say they swipe your belly area with their razor sharp claws, creating open wound from where your insides escape to outside.
In vrchat, with every Aussie I met, I always remind them about the Emu war XD
Just keep in mind that 80% of the "Australians" you've met on vrchat were/are emus
There was also the teeny-tiny problem that most of the farmers there were ex-soldiers who had served in WW1 and had been promised land to make a living for their service. These birds wrecking everything and eating their crops (not to mention damaging fences that let in even MORE critters) and the government's lackluster response made a lot of them REALLY angry and you know, once you have a lot of angry former soldiers, many of which still have their service weapons because they live in the damn Outback and need to defend themselves from predators and roving Ned Kelly types, you have the building blocks of an uprising.
Community, thoughts on getting her to watch Bluejay megaprojects and nuclear ideas? I love seeing people learn history!
She should watch all of Bluejay's work. The man is an educational comedic genius.
@@Pylo-ry6ff Yes, but those two should get the best reactions, and also see if she knows KP and ATLE from Disney.
People in chat saying emu is inedible either have no idea what they're talking about or they're fucking with you because emu is 100% edible, in fact a lot of people farm them for their meat.
If Nuke is the option the Emu's would probably just 'aww shit mate temperature's rising' then raid the bunkers and kick everybody out lol
If you want more military misadventure with dangerous animals Blue Jay's video on the dumbest Russian voyage is a great view.
Just a reminder the actual feathered descendant of the Utah Raptor the Cassowary is closely related to Emu and Ostrich. Yes they have talons, yes they will kill you.
we had 2 emu on the family farm and they totally move like "Raptors" from Jurassic Park.
In quotations because I cannot remember how much the CG movie threats actually looked like a real dino.
The Utah raptor doesn't have a descendent. Birds are closely related to dromaeosaurids (the group that includes Utah raptor), but they likely did not descend directly from them. The current consensus is that birds are closer related to Troodontids than to dromaeosaurids, and likely descended from a Troondontid or they share a direct common ancestor.
As for the Utah raptor's line of descendants, it probably couldn't compete with new massive theropod hypercarnivores and downsized a bit. The later Dakotaraptor and Dromaeosaurus are both closely related large dromaeosaurids, but they were a fair bit lighter and less robust than Utahraptor. Utahraptor had no large theropod hypercarnivores, so it could be a very large and heavy raptor, but it's descendants had to co-exist with Tyrannosaurus Rex. As for it's likely line of descendants, Dakotaraptor was one of the last surviving dromaeosaurids but they too went extinct at the end of the Maastrichtian when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event happened.
"If you want to commit mass murder, don't crowd-fund. Crowd-source."
Guy at 9:50 "I'll keep that in mind in case I fail artschool"
Australia is just tutorial mode for WarHammer 40K
And we became the raven guard
Have you seen OverSimplified? He’s covered the Emu War over on his channel as well. He’s also covered WWII, Henry the VIII and my personal favorite The Pig War. Which was fought between Great Britain and The United States after some guy’s prize pig was killed.
You need the oversimplified version of this emu war lmao. Also he's have same energy to IH and Sam O Nella. Even releasing videos 1-2 yearly too.
You have NO IDEA how long I have waited for someone to react the this war....
Emus are like that cuz they (and their ostrich/cassowary/etc cousins) are very aware that they're dinosaurs, and are determined to live up to that fact.
Those friging things are terrifying, if an ostrich is already an asole imagine an Australian one
@07:28 I've seen a few emu farms. Emu burgers can be delicious. In all honesty though, those birds remind me of some sort of discount velociraptors.
Not gonna talk about the emus being drawn having human feet
I went to Australia when I was 17, it is a desert surrounded by a scary-ass jungle.
So I'm not exactly a gun nut, but I'd think a 700 Nitro Express, or a 4-bore round would be the ideal for this. Those rounds are specifically made for taking down extremely tough animals. The 4-bore in particular was used for when you're big game hunting. It was a rifle you'd carry in case your prey charges you and you _need_ that sucker to _STOP_ like _right. now._
Also, get one of your best marksmen and give them a rifle so that you don't waste bullets. Have your sniper pick emu's off from distance.
If you like historical but funny nerd stuff like this I highly recommend Count Dankula's Absolute Mad Lads series, he covers everything from folk hero legends to cults to animal war heroes
2:40 was playing cod zombies while watching this, synchronization complete.
To put it into perspective, Australian division was cut off from supply and surrounded by German army in Africa and that division held their defenses for much longer than Emu War was going.
Basically - Emus are a menace
Thanks for this.
Crazy thing is, this is only one of a bunch of times the Australian military lost to bullet resistant wildlife.
I would love to recommend Oversimplified if you like history made fun. Their videos are slighly longer but are nothing short of fantastic🤣
I think Pig War or Prohibition would be a blast.
@@bthsr7113 Would say the punic wars, just beacuse of the scale and shear silliness of it
I'd loove to see Alicia go down our history nerd side of youtube
I think checking out a one video topic from him would be a better way to get a first impression of his content. Then if she (or whoever you are really) likes it she could check out more of what he’s made. The Great Emu War, The Football War and The War That Changed The English Language are all great one video topics he’s covered that gives a great impression of what kinda content he makes and what kinda person he is.
"This bird is the furthest evolutionary bird we have". Wait until she learns about the cassowaries
Funny to see so many people who know nothing about emu meat. Emu meat is not poisonous, it's actually quite good. Similar to ostrich or very slightly gamier, though that depends on how it's cooked.
Was checking for this comment. They really claiming Emus are basically Xenomorphs in the chat.
Whoever started it must have been thinking of koalas. There meat is toxic
I’d suggest using shotguns with slugs for emus. Slugs are a kind of shotgun ammo that’s closer to a traditional bullet, but it’s pretty big so while the effective range isn’t great, it’s very good at doing damage and punching through armor, and if it can go through armor, it can go through a bird. If the emus’s survivability is more about being able to withstand a lot of damage rather than being hard to penetrate, then traditional buckshot is better for just creating a bunch of little holes for every shot
Australia, the only continent designed with a difficulty rating of "ha ha eff you no".
This! Is the EMULATOR!
MutiLATEs EMUs into EMULsion to turn into aussie "Chicken" Nuggets.
Oh god, this has reminded me of puppet history, and now I want to see Alicia react to it.
As an Australian, to better understand the Emu, imagine a Velociraptor with feathers.
Tho velociraptors were the same size as a scrub turkey or slightly taller and *were covered in feathers*
“just nuke them” the emus would just become radioactive murder chickens
Yep we Aussies have our own brand of crazy
One of only two countries to lose a war to birds. And while bats aren't birds, Project X-Ray would have made a third country to lose a war involving flying creatures if it wasn't one of the most insane ideas in all of human history 😂😂
I’m guessing they were using Vickers machine guns. They usually have 3 man teams so they can manage ammo and have another guy to rotate the hot barrel out and replace it with a cool one.
3 guys with 2 Vickers = bad time.
Lewis machine guns, actually. Just curious, but how did you come to the conclusion that they were vickers?
@@lawaern3474 Wild guess. My grandad was in a Vickers crew; when they talked about the guns failing in the vid I remembered him talking about operating them. But if they’re Lewis, then they’re Lewis!
@@freefall945 It was a good guess. But they're big and cumbersome things, typically mounted on huge tripods. The lighter lewis gun would have been more handy for moving around with.
You can tell half the chat doesn’t know anything about weapons because 90% of their suggestions didn’t exist yet
Id highly recommend "A chick called Albert" if you want to cry over some pure sweetness. And i really mean it, he's so sweet.
There was a similar bounty situation used in Yellowstone, because wolves were considered a nuisance to farm animals and general safety. They put a bounty out and the wolves were completely wiped out by people in no time. Unfortunately, this meant the deer no longer had real predators, and their population exploded, meaning deer were now destroying farms and vegetation everywhere. So, they airlifted replacement wolves to feast on the deer and bring the environment back into a stable ecosystem.
The fact that they were “running out of ammo” using 7.62 to hunt large birds is baffling to me i think they could tank around 5 rounds on average before being fazed by it which is crazy
Maybe one day our rat queen can say the word "fertile" without laughing. But today isn't the day
Average emu diet consists of wild vegetables, grasses, shoots, seeds, small animals and insects.
Just because Alicia asked about if you can eat Emu. I don't know about the logistics about bullet filled emu, but emu meat is safe to eat and is a great, more healthy alternative to beef. It has a similar taste and texture to lean beef, but is lower in calories, cholesterol, and doesn't suffer from other common health concerns that are typically associated with red meat. Emu is also very tender.
The average Emu diet consists of the following: **the souls of the innocent and Australian sorrow**
Funny thing Emus aren't even the scariest big bird in Austin. That tittle goes to the Cassowary
7:30 Actually emu meat is edible. It is a celebration ceremonial food of the aboriginal nations. In uni the aboriginal support organization used to have barbecues with kangaroo and emu meats.
Australian here, Emu's are absolutely not to be messed with. They're huge (second largest bird in the world just under Ostriches), they're smart and they're deadly when they want to be. Having been up close with a few and feeding them at a zoo, I would never want to encounter one in the wild. And yes, they won the war. Bullet sponge buggers.
That said, I'd much rather encounter an Emu than their distant cousins, the third largest bird in the world (and also calls Australia home) the Cassowary. If you ever learn about it, I'll be here for the sheer unyielding terror those things instill in everyone.
Damn... the Fat Electrician has a video on this too. Missed opportunity for another one of his videos but this is also dope.
The entirety of Sam O'Nellas work is fantastic and you should watch them all
Wtf now im scared of emu's in Minecraft (definitely a mod of that somewhere i guess) literally called a mob when group together the damn horder bugs ain't got shit on them it seems lol
one of the things left out-
most of the farmers were retired soldiers so they went to the army to fix the emu problem instead of some other government department like interior or agriculture.
the solution in the end was building stronger fences around the farms.
The Army Way is not always the best way.
As a person living in regional Australia, can confirm: SKRAW SKRAW! Ahem. I mean, yes, emus are right bastards. There's also the cassowary. Which is like an angrier emu. With velociraptor claws. Yes, everything in this damn country is trying to kill us. Skraw.
Alicia I only recently just started watching you from your Rick and Morty reactions (seriously how the hell did you predict so many of its story beats and plot twists??). But I wanted to congratulate you on beating cancer! That’s fantastic!
To be fair birds are WAYYY smarter than we give them credit for. Hell Casual Geographic made a video about Pigeons.
Which I highly recommend.
Hey Alicia, I just wanted to give you my huge congratulations on beating your cancer, I was really hoping you would. I love your content, you're my #1 favorite reactor, keep plugging Alicia and keep rocking.
Alicia: I know you Australians in the chat aren’t real.
Me (an Australian): OI
I see your beak tapping the keyboard!!!
If they used more shotguns, They would have had a high number of emu deaths.
They should’ve used scoped rifles like the Lee Enfield for more precise shots and also hired farmers to help.
2:47
Well yes, but actually no 🤣🤣🤣
It would be funny if she had reacted to Oversimplify version of the Great Emu War
Friendly reminder that this is Australian wildlife we’re talking about.
Rule number one of survival down here? Don’t fuck with the wildlife.
4:08 now she is starting to understand why Austrailia lost.
I've always taken issue with the notion that Australia "lost" the Emu War. They didn't. They did not take any casualties, they did not lose any territory, and their government remained intact. The only sense in which they "lost" was that they set out to kill emus, and didn't kill very many.
I wish those harmless animals could fight back so the war would be more interesting and have more human body count.
Also we Aussies enjoy the memes about us living in a crazy horror land…
But seriously, we have a bunch of snakes and spiders but no large terrestrial predators. There’s dingos, which are basically just wild dogs. In US and Canada you have bears and mountain lions and wolves!
Emu war has nothing on those crazy times in the Middle Ages where wolves were forming packs like armies and laying siege to towns!
Yeah but yall also have underwater spiders.
@@music79075 look bro the oceans are connected, that’s as much your fault as mine :)
@@freefall945 lol but they are closer to your dirt than my dirt!
I have worked in a bakery where we made keto donuts. I can't say if they were any good though. Because we didn't like making or tasting them.
But they were extremely popular with keto people to the point that we always sold out before anything else.
I can't help but imagine that the keto people we're so desperate for sweets that anything was better than nothing.
Ten bullets for each emu would be considered highly successful exchange in a modern war. In WWII it's estimated that 25,000 rounds of small arms ammo for every casualty inflicted. In Korea that doubled to 50,000 rounds.
Artillery, mines, bombs etc do more damage but not things you want to use on people's farms.
Also, Australia, where the primary spoken language is screaming.
Emu Meat is not poisonous, it is safe to eat. Its similar in taste and texture to lean beef but from what I have experienced, is often made into pie
Emus: at least they're not cassowaries.
If you’d be interested in reacting to more historical stuff, I’d recommend Oversimplified. He did a video on the emu war too, as well as some similarly length (
If you like another reaction of "how can they all suck so much?" then you should consider History of Everything's "Aeroflot - Russia's airline of doom".
I now imagine Emu Cappone with a 3 peice suit and fedora
Can confirm that as an Australian I don't understand how Australia exists, it's more deep boonies areas and old suburbs are like Florida in which anomalous, random encounters occur
Our old Prime Minister (sorta like a European equivalent to a president) shit themselves in a McDonald's parking lot too. Do with that as you will.
"Is it edible"
Oh, you sweet summer child. We are humans. Anything is edible to us. Our stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve steel, and the only reason your stomach can withstand it, is not because the lining inside can withstand said acid. It simply regenerates faster than it is dissolved by it.
So to ask, "is it edible?" Will always be answered with "Yes." However, if you ask about nutritional value, well that is a whole different story.
you should REALLY follow this up with Oversimplified the Emu War, but, in general Oversimplified is a GREAT channel. as a Canadian you might like "The PIg War" where the US nearly invaded Canada over the San Juan Islands off BC/Washington
I feel Oversimplified goes into more detail about the root causes & why Australians still live there even though the emu's won.
Slowly corrupting alicia into the history nerd corner of youtube
Great video alic
6:03 it’s the 1930’s, nukes didn’t even exist yet chat XD
Maaan, Sam is literally one of the funniest people on UA-cam for sure ❤❤❤❤❤ Hope you check out more of him!