00:00In 1932, Australian farmers in the west of the country faced numerous emus that ravaged their crops.
00:06The army is being asked to participate in an operation to regulate these large birds.
00:10The soldiers use machine guns, but the animals scatter and prove difficult to neutralize.
00:16The press quickly transformed the affair into a comic episode, nicknamed the "war of the emus".
00:21It was not a war in the military sense, but an operation to combat pests that did not achieve
00:26not the expected results.
00:27History illustrates the limitations of military solutions to an agricultural and ecological problem.
