Australia Declared War on Emus. They Had Machine Guns. The Emus Won. | VERSO

In November 1932, the Australian Army sent Major G.P.W. Meredith, two soldiers, and two Lewis machine guns to the Campion district of Western Australia. Their mission: kill twenty thousand emus that had invaded settler farmland.
The emus scattered every time the guns started firing, splitting into small groups that were impossible to target. The guns jammed. The birds seemed to learn the range and withdraw before soldiers could set up. After three weeks, Major Meredith reportedly said the emus "could face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks."
Roughly 2,500 rounds were fired per one hundred confirmed kills. The operation was quietly abandoned.
A second attempt in 1948 went no better. To this day, emus have no natural predators in Australia, no military record of defeat, and one of the more unusual footnotes in military history.
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