The closing discussion turns from planned subjects to conflicts remembered through animals. It distinguishes multiple Pig Wars, including Anglo-American and Serbian-Austro-Hungarian cases, and then searches for a War of the Cow. An account of the Düsseldorf Cow War says it lasted from 1651 to 1661, with two civilian deaths and a herd of cattle reportedly taken as prisoners of war. Because the details come from an on-the-fly lookup, the passage works best as a prompt for further verification rather than a settled narrative. The Emu War provides the closing joke as the animal conflict that humans lost.
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Pig Wars, Cow Wars, and the Emu War
A closing joke becomes a compact tour of animal-named conflicts and a reminder that amusing labels can conceal very different political disputes.