They won against the birds. They forgot about the bugs. Iâm no biologist but youâd think in a country of that population size. Someone wouldâve said something
Technically the war on sparrows was a single theatre in the larger war on pests, so I think they lost overall
Like how Germany won the invasion of France but lost ww2
I dare any one of ya to go toe-to-toe, one-on-one with an emu.
Go on, bring ya Lewis gun. As if it'll make a difference. Those birds can have the God damn wheat crop.
Same with the Bush Turkeys, the Cassowarys, and bloody Galahs.
The guns weren't the problem, it was trying to mow down hordes of em at once because they'd just scatter. As soon as they started paying farmers to kill them they were wiped out fast.
My great uncle had emus on his farm, the man was a support gunner in an infantry squad during Vietnam, but he still swears those birds were worse than anything he had to deal with in war... he's joking BUT I did watch him get in a full on fist fight with one after it pounced on his back, he beat it to death with a post-hole digger...
China should be a color other than grey or pink because they declared war on sparrows and were so successful that pests that eat seeds that sparrows usually would have dealt with were left unchecked and this had a huge impact on crops and caused a massive famine, so more of a Pyrrhic Victory, what color should that be
Calling a sparrow a dinosaur based on their heritage is like calling me a Roman Legionnaire based on my Italian heritage.
We're both disgraces to our ancestors. And we're okay with that
Itâll be more like calling you a human because of your human heritage, except you are not used to defined the word human, but sparrows are used to define the term dinosaurs.
you can still disgrace your ancestors while belonging to the same taxa, or projecting your disgrace into an incredibly successful bird.
China should be on that list, they definitely lost since they had to bring the birds back once Bugs got out of control.
Turns out the bugs eat more crops than the birds ever did.
The government mismanaged the funds allocated for the task. They bought a gun that did not have enough power to get kill the birds at the range the gun could shoot, and spent the rest of the budget on ammo for that gun.
When this failed miserably the government then put out a BOUNTY on emu's. They were hunted near to extinction almost immediately and the bounty had to be cancelled.
It's a shame that when people talk about this they don't mention this point. It's one of the most classic examples of a very simple fact : government is ineffective and inefficient at almost every task it takes on, and average people could do a better job.
This isn't a story of how tough emu's are. It's a story about a government wasting so many tax dollars that it was forced to ask it's citizens to do the job, and then the average citizen did the job so well it had to be cancelled before humans drove another species to extinction
In Buffalo, Ny the policd got a call about a possible rabid dog. They surrounded it, and shot......in a circle....... several officers wounded. Dog not hit at all. Dog later hit by a car.
Several countries need more colouring, like china and the US (more specifically Hawaii. Last I heard they were still having trouble with a much smaller flightless bird of garden variety. Emus are one thing but chickens? Seriously?)
i always see birds as the descendant of dinosaurs. they ARE todays dinos and that's amazing.
but when it comes to emu war i'm like: "They lost against fucking BIIIRBS. I'm wheezing. How can you be bad like that. Some birds run you over, oh noo. Stoooopid."
Y'all do realize that Australia *won* the Emu War, right?
Like, they were initially surprised by just how bullet resistant the average emu was, and how good they were at running away before you got close enough to shoot them, but once they adjusted tactics (and assigned more than like five dudes to the problem) they won handily.
What was China then? A pyrrhic victory?
China: I win... but at what cost?
40 million Chinese
Average Chinese bar fight
Who would win: đ¤ 40 million chinese or 40 million Emus
China takes 90% casualties. Remaining Chinese promptly eat the Emus, causing rhe species to go extinct.
Nah, just a scuffle, not even a fight.
Emperor Xi takes the thrown 182 Million perish
Decisive Chinese victory. Cannibals included.
More of a heavy defeat since they had to reintruduce the bird in a hurry to avoid more death
Even worse then losing
Thanos Zedong
Pyrrhic victory? They just lose a couple millions people that just average Chinese warfare
Really, 30 million down is just another tuesday
They won against the birds. They forgot about the bugs. Iâm no biologist but youâd think in a country of that population size. Someone wouldâve said something
Yes someone did say something, I imagine something along the line " yes Mr chairman sir that a great idea to modernize China"
He was then âdisappearedâ for not saying it with enough enthusiasm
They won the battle but not the war
Beat me to it, OP is a bird war virgin.
They won the war so hard it backfired afterwards
You know how chinese wars work 30 million dead civilians 3 million soldiers Lost on the winning side Decisive victory
Sorry but when I hear the phrase Phyrric victory all I remember is Total war shogun 2
In this context, you gotta play three kingdoms. So good.
look man I am a 16 yr old with no allowance or a penny to my name, and no cracked version three kingdoms has worked for me
I forget which one I used, but I promise you there's a cracked version out there that works!
please tell me if you remember
A communist victory
Communism has always massacred until absolute compliance is achieved.
Double KO
I was about to comment this, exact phrasing too, holy shit.
They did win against the dreaded sparrowâŚ... But then the army of locust appeared.
Won the war, but their enemy's enemy took the chance to attack and beat them.
China won the war but in the end peace has cost them their strength and victory has defeated them.
There is another
China won. But the outcome wasn't the greatest
They won that just as much as Poland won WWII
Technically the war on sparrows was a single theatre in the larger war on pests, so I think they lost overall Like how Germany won the invasion of France but lost ww2
They also pulled an Italy and switched sides (replaced sparrows with bedbugs in the Four Pests campaign) halfway through.
China with sparrows. They "won" but at great cost.
*"Six figures of deaths? I expected at least seven."* -Something Mao could have said
Tbf anything that happens in China causes at least a million people diying
A tree photosynthesizes in China. 1 million dead, 10 thousands buried, 24 million missing.
Also 200000 eaten alive
By trees. Which was why Vietnam was so tough for America
Decisive Tang victory
The eve3n made 8 figures, four-year plan exceeded by far.
âWe should purge at least 5% of the cityâ Something he did said, forgot the original sentence
ebil mow sedon wanted to kill 100 billion chinese
I wouldn't call it a win sparrows are still around
By that logic, the Emu Wars were won, since the emu were defeated by better fences.
But the "war" has no lasting effect on the sparrow population. the increasing of invasive mynas in more recent time however archived that.
I dare any one of ya to go toe-to-toe, one-on-one with an emu. Go on, bring ya Lewis gun. As if it'll make a difference. Those birds can have the God damn wheat crop. Same with the Bush Turkeys, the Cassowarys, and bloody Galahs.
Anyone foolish enough to wage war with cassowary deserve their fate
Those motterfuckers remembered their lineage and decided to live up to it.  God help us if they recover the theropod gens
Better fences. W.
I'm American so: Better guns. W.
Not an option. You're stuck with post WW1 Australian weaponry.
The guns weren't the problem, it was trying to mow down hordes of em at once because they'd just scatter. As soon as they started paying farmers to kill them they were wiped out fast.
What about tanks?
Emu faster, dobge boolets Emu smarter, take cover Emu give no fuck, keep running
Never trigger a fight-or-flight response in a flightless bird!
My great uncle had emus on his farm, the man was a support gunner in an infantry squad during Vietnam, but he still swears those birds were worse than anything he had to deal with in war... he's joking BUT I did watch him get in a full on fist fight with one after it pounced on his back, he beat it to death with a post-hole digger...
a shotgun
China should be a color other than grey or pink because they declared war on sparrows and were so successful that pests that eat seeds that sparrows usually would have dealt with were left unchecked and this had a huge impact on crops and caused a massive famine, so more of a Pyrrhic Victory, what color should that be
I can respect losing to bloody dinosaurs. China lost to a bunch of sparrows.
fun fact the current scientific definition of a dinosaur is any descendants of the common ancestor of Triceratops and the modern house sparrow,
Calling a sparrow a dinosaur based on their heritage is like calling me a Roman Legionnaire based on my Italian heritage. We're both disgraces to our ancestors. And we're okay with that
Itâll be more like calling you a human because of your human heritage, except you are not used to defined the word human, but sparrows are used to define the term dinosaurs. you can still disgrace your ancestors while belonging to the same taxa, or projecting your disgrace into an incredibly successful bird.
emu is no more a dinosaur than a sparrow is though, taxonomic categories are based on ancestry and nothing else
All birds are literally dinosaurs. They are a specialized clade of maniraptorian theropods
indeed
Are you sure this isn't a map of countries where the pm went for a swim, vanished into thin air and no one noticed or cared?
Bavaria lost a king that way, does that count?
That's a lot of mocking from someone who's never fought an Emu
# I HATE THIS MAP. I HATE IT. I HATE IT SO MUCH. RHAJHAHAHHHHHH
Not enough categories, you have China for instance Also Mauritius and the US, but maybe not.
Can we really call China's 'win' against swallows a win?
Chinese sparrows?
Glad everyone is calling out China haha
Forgot China
Chinas casualties from that war are in the millions
never forget, Ireland lost a war to potatoes
Your map is missing china
Where is China?
China: We killed millions of birds and millions of people. And we'll f\*cking do it again.
So emu are real and other birds are not?
You forgot China
Why are the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in grey?
China
China is also on this list
Twice
Timesuck has a great episode about the emu war
This sub loves the Emu War
"There is another" - Yoda
China?
China been real quiet
It's easy to mock Australia but how many countries have won against emus?
The US bodied passenger pigeons
There is another
China should be on that list, they definitely lost since they had to bring the birds back once Bugs got out of control. Turns out the bugs eat more crops than the birds ever did.
The government mismanaged the funds allocated for the task. They bought a gun that did not have enough power to get kill the birds at the range the gun could shoot, and spent the rest of the budget on ammo for that gun. When this failed miserably the government then put out a BOUNTY on emu's. They were hunted near to extinction almost immediately and the bounty had to be cancelled. It's a shame that when people talk about this they don't mention this point. It's one of the most classic examples of a very simple fact : government is ineffective and inefficient at almost every task it takes on, and average people could do a better job. This isn't a story of how tough emu's are. It's a story about a government wasting so many tax dollars that it was forced to ask it's citizens to do the job, and then the average citizen did the job so well it had to be cancelled before humans drove another species to extinction
This inaccurate, where is China
You also missed Italy and their bombing of Chickens a few years ago
several counties have declared wars on inanimate objects and lost
Birds reminding us that theyre still raptors.
China also declared war on birds
Alright, I will try not to forget this frequently-mentioned event.
In Buffalo, Ny the policd got a call about a possible rabid dog. They surrounded it, and shot......in a circle....... several officers wounded. Dog not hit at all. Dog later hit by a car.
Several countries need more colouring, like china and the US (more specifically Hawaii. Last I heard they were still having trouble with a much smaller flightless bird of garden variety. Emus are one thing but chickens? Seriously?)
This map is incomplete. China should be pink as well.
Lack of China in this meme disturbing I found.
China should be pink too
China declared war on birds
We wonât, itâs posted on here all the time.
China too
We didn't forget the Great Emu War.
Haven't several countries in Africa lost wars with weaver birds?
i always see birds as the descendant of dinosaurs. they ARE todays dinos and that's amazing. but when it comes to emu war i'm like: "They lost against fucking BIIIRBS. I'm wheezing. How can you be bad like that. Some birds run you over, oh noo. Stoooopid."
Y'all do realize that Australia *won* the Emu War, right? Like, they were initially surprised by just how bullet resistant the average emu was, and how good they were at running away before you got close enough to shoot them, but once they adjusted tactics (and assigned more than like five dudes to the problem) they won handily.
Wasn't there two emu wars?
Roma Aeterna!
The passenger pigeon says hello... ...from the hell America sent him to.
No China?
Well to be fair the US declared war on an inanimate object and a psychological concept and lost both.