In the First World War, Australia, as the younger brother and the eldest brother, Britain, sent more than 300,000 people to overseas war zones without hesitation.
By the end of the First World War, the Australians, who had suffered heavy casualties, had returned home, with 60,000 killed and nearly 140,000 wounded, with a casualty rate of 65 per cent.
In order to appease these traumatized veterans, both mentally and physically, Australia waved a big hand and very generously divided the land for everyone.
Australian soldiers pose for a photo at the pyramid
After all, Australia is sparsely populated, especially when the Australian mainland was first discovered, who went to the west coast that was disliked by whom, and it was even more uninhabited.
So such a large number of veterans, with their families and children, moved into the allocated land and began a pastoral life.
To tell the truth, the kind of life of putting down the gun as a farmer is quite healing, there is no gun forest and bullet rain, only sunshine green plants and streams, Australia also intimately assigned agricultural tools and infrastructure for them, very comfortable in the mountains and forests.
Later, with the encouragement and support of the state, they began to grow wheat to save the Great Depression in Australia at that time.
But the good times were not long, and the farm that had grown wheat for a few years welcomed a group of uninvited guests, emus.
emu
We know that Australia is a continent rich in species, and many animals are not only fat and strong, but also have their own uniqueness, which is very different from other continents.
The emu is an Australian specialty bird, very friendly, if you don't mess with it, it will not peck like a goose.
But it is larger and likes to eat grass, so when they see the farmer's pasture and water source, they are so happy and happy that they are a little overwhelmed.
As soon as Bigfoot lifted, it ruined the crops...
As for how big it is, you can imagine an ostrich.
Emus is the world's second largest bird, 150-185 cm tall, weighing 60-90 pounds, and an adult, if they run around and jump up, not to mention grass seedlings, the warehouse door can knock you open.
When these emus saw such "rich" conditions, they immediately "settled" on the farm with thousands of companions, and lived a daily life of eating, drinking, and playing.
The birds rejoiced, the peasants angry.
It was imperative to drive them away, after all the food was starving all over Australia, and the problem of rations could not be delayed, so someone was sent to consult with the peasants on countermeasures.
As mentioned earlier, these peasant veterans came from the military and hoped that the military would approve them a few machine guns and catch these birds.
Faced with such a large number of giant birds, the then Minister of Defence, Sir George Pierce, agreed to the farmer's request, but the gun could not be given to the peasants, and it had to be operated by the active soldiers.
Australia's first man-bird war was on the verge of breaking out.
A flock of emus
In the late 1930s, the Australian military dispatched two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to begin strafing the army of emus.
In the first week, the soldiers who strafed the emus were still very excited, and the tube was not in range, that is, it was a random shot, and the final result was less than ten emus.
When the commander saw that the situation was not good, he had to find a way to catch them all, so he asked the farmers to lead the emus into the iron net, wait until the emus gathered together, and then open fire en masse.
Watching a group of bulky emu dangle in front of them, the bullets of the two machine guns beeped out.
Who knew that the emu was very agile, dodging left and right, and escaped at a speed of 71 kilometers per hour...
The bullets ran out, the emus ran out, and there were twelve large birds lying alone on the ground.
In the end, the Australians could not retreat, and the emus won a complete victory.
Although the emus war was lost, Australia did not give up, and still chased after me every day with the emus.
Scattered down the month there were also hundreds of birds killed.
But a few hundred emus are only a minority, and tens of thousands of birds are "at large," wreaking havoc on crops.
Eventually, Australia launched a national campaign, and as long as 1 emu is killed, it will receive a bonus of 2 marks.
With the prize money, the momentum was strong, with Northampton alone killing 37,000 emus in a single year.
By 1964, Australia had been rewarding people who killed emus, and more than 14,000 more had died.
But in 1988, something interesting happened.
Emus is being hunted and killed less and less, and Australia has begun legislation to protect emus in order to prevent the extinction of emus...
Think about the history of Australia and animal fights are really a lot of things, such as the problem of hares that has not been solved until today, not only the rabbits are not controlled, but also the rabbit's natural enemy fox breeding all over the street, the Australian people are about to become a "protected species"...
The emus and kangaroos on the Australian national emblem, from the symbols of Australia to the hunter's gun soul and table meal, really have to marvel at the magic of the Australian land, which can make all kinds of species breed so huge.
Coat of arms of Australia
Think about our cute pandas, the treatment is really different.
However, compared with the United States and the Albatross in the past, even the use of rocket launchers and tactical missiles, the result is still a fiasco to retreat from the island, Australia's war with the Emus is still a victory.
After all, after decades of unremitting efforts, the number of emus has been reduced to the point where it can be included in the list of protected animals, and emus can also live in wildlife sanctuaries.
Although the agile emus has been arrested and killed for so many years, it still maintains its friendly heart, and when it sees a passing or visiting vehicle, it will still put the cerebellum melon into the car window without heart and lungs, beg for bread and sausages, and improve the food.
A smiling emu
I have to say that Australian animals are really loved and hated.
Hunting animals is illegal in various countries, eating wild animals is not to promote unhealthy behavior, in the absence of species breeding to endanger the natural balance, we should all love animals, protect animals.
In this way, our homes will be richer, better, and happier.