Preface
I believe everyone has heard of the war between man and man, but have you ever heard of the war between man and animals? Logically speaking, man has high-tech weapons, and if he fights against animals, he will not fall into inferiority.
However, after Australia declared war with animals, even if they used high-tech weapons, they did not win, so what kind of methods did they use to deal with animals?
Blessed with a unique geographical environment
Australia is located in the southern hemisphere, because this country itself occupies a continent, so Australia is very rich in species, and more importantly, Australia is a place with many animals that other countries do not have.
However, it is precisely because of Australia's unique geographical environment that no matter what the species is, as long as it arrives in Australia, it is very easy to survive.
In addition, the animals that arrive in Australia will reproduce rapidly, causing a fatal blow to the local species, and in the 19th century, the British brought more than 20 rabbits to Australia.
These twenty rabbits started living on the farm, and then these rabbits began to breed on Australian soil, and everyone knows that the rabbit species not only reproduces quickly, but also grows very fast.
It didn't take too many teenagers for Australia's rabbits to begin to flood, and at its peak, rabbits could even reach 10 billion, which not only nibbled on grasslands, but also seriously squeezed the living space of Australian animals.
In such a situation, the government began to think of a way, so the 3,200 kilometers of fence surrounded the place where the rabbit was, but after building the fence, they suddenly found that the rabbit could burrow.
The Australian government, which had no choice, decided to find another way to introduce the rabbit's natural enemy, the fox, from abroad, and this approach did have some effect at first, but they found that it didn't take long for such an effect to work.
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Because the foxes found that the native Australian animals were more delicious and easier to catch, the foxes simply stopped eating rabbits and instead ate native Australian animals.
Since foxes have no natural predators in Australia, foxes also quickly proliferated, and the fight between Australia and rabbits is not over.
Australia developed a virus that specifically targeted rabbits, and they put the virus in the rabbits' water supply, and at first the virus did kill a large group of rabbits, but the rabbits that stayed behind developed resistance.
So the remaining rabbits began to continue to breed, and now Australia's rabbits are still a headache for Australians, not only the invasive species of rabbits, but also Australia's national bird "Emu", which also makes Australians feel very headaches.
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The reason why people give the emu such a name is because the emu's cry is "and the seed", and it has lived on the earth for a relatively long time, about 80 million years.
This bird is really very tall, 1.5 meters, and if it weighs 50 kilograms, although it is a bird, because its wings are degenerate, this bird cannot fly at all.
The emu's feet are supported by three toes, and if it is accidentally targeted, it is very likely to cause harm to people.
The key is that the speed of this animal is still fast, the fastest time, it can reach 69 kilometers in an hour, some people may wonder, isn't this thing running around in the wild, how can there be such a big contradiction with people?
In fact, there was no contradiction between humans and emus at the beginning, but because Australians at that time needed a place to grow crops.
So some people went to Western Australia to start planting, but after planting crops for a while, they found that emus are very easy to cause some damage to crops when they are looking for food.
For this reason, this group of crop growers quickly reported such news to the government, and they wanted the government to deal with such a problem, after all, it is not a way to do this for a long time......
The battle of the emus
This situation quickly attracted the attention of the Australian government, and the government quickly sent troops to eliminate the emus, but because the war was not very dangerous for people, and because there were weapons in their hands, the people in the army were not very panicked.
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They thought it would be an easy task, but when they actually went to war with the emus, they realized how wrong they were.
At first they brought only two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and when they saw the emu, they began to shoot at the emu, but they underestimated the speed of the emu.
When frightened, the emu will run at a very high speed, so it will be difficult to aim, which is very inefficient.
In fact, the reason for the low efficiency is not only the super high running speed of the emu, but also an important reason, that is, the previous machine gun requires two people to cooperate, and the recoil of such a machine gun is very strong, and the action is also very slow.
They fought for a week in such a situation, and after a week, their results came out, and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition only killed a few emus, which made the Australian army embarrassed.
Soon they organized a second operation, where they learned their previous lesson and gathered the emus together, after which they began to attack the emus.
Unfortunately, the machine gun they were carrying broke down, so they had to settle for the next best thing and start firing with rifles, but the emus reacted very quickly and they immediately scattered in all directions.
That time they did not return empty-handed, more than a dozen emus were killed by them, and then they went to war against the emus, but the cost of killing the emus was too much, and the government could not control it.
So the Australian government thought of a way, that is, to give money, as for who to give money, it is natural that whoever kills the emu gives money to whom, at that time, killing an emu can directly get money.
So some civilians, knowing that they could get property, began to hunt and kill emus, and the number of emus also decreased dramatically in this situation.
Later, because the emu disappeared so quickly, the Australian government began to introduce policies to protect the emus, and not only that, but some people began to raise emus......
Resources:
[1] "Emu War" Yuan Chunxiao G624.6.
[2] "Calendar Hare Invasion of Australia" Q16.