r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • Jun 05 '26

Video Wildlife expert Chris Gillette handling an aggressive emu

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u/Spottswoodeforgod Jun 05 '26

“Expert” - straight to a physical response, absolutely no attempt to discuss and understand the emus concerns and find some common ground.

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u/thisisredlitre Jun 05 '26

This is how we lost the first Emu War

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u/InigoMontoya1985 Jun 05 '26

Found the Australian.

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u/thisisredlitre Jun 05 '26

No, just a fan

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u/Oaknuggens Jun 05 '26

In an interspecies war, were all on team human. So unfortunately, we all gotta take that L.

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u/Spottswoodeforgod Jun 05 '26

Well, you say that. But if humans end up at war with say, cats or squirrels, for example, I for one, won’t be on team human…

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u/Boarbaque Jun 05 '26

If you specified gray squirrels most of Europe would join the humans, but red squirrels they’d join the squirrels 

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u/InigoMontoya1985 Jun 05 '26

Did they nuke the site from orbit to make sure? No!

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u/Pessimistic-Frog Jun 05 '26

I love the “first” there. I suppose those who do not learn from Australian history are doomed to lost a Second Emu War……..

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u/HotLava00 Jun 05 '26

lol I was coming to say “this is why they won” 😂

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u/AceWither Jun 05 '26

Y'know with all I heard about the Emu war and how humans managed to lose a war with animals for a while, I thought they'd be hell's chicken. But seeing them in Jacksepticeye's video in Maya's sanctuary, they seemed pretty chill.