📺Watch the full series here: kzread.info/head/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 kzread.info/dash/bejne/mnZ-sJp7f66an6w.html Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJV2m6xxequ8qKw.html Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 kzread.info/dash/bejne/c5Vrp8qlabjJeLw.html Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4CBx8qGirrXaJM.html Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH572NOme9anoM4.html Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWtspsNwfqasZtY.html Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pmZmys1_YKScmJs.html Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 kzread.info/dash/bejne/goh3x9OIYMqTo7A.html Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 kzread.info/dash/bejne/nqqsrLivdsy7d7w.html

Australia vs Emus Australia vs feral cats Australia vs rabbits Seems they fight a lot of wars against animals over there.

@danijelandroid

3 жыл бұрын

I think there is even a water buffalo war.

@ianmackenzie686

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget their war against liberty over the last thirty years.

@magicassassin1947

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gultajsingh8095

3 жыл бұрын

Australia vs feral goats Australia vs camels

@otroflores91

3 жыл бұрын

@W W damn you are going to lose most of the native animals. I read even the platypus are in trouble.

damn bro, Australia is losing so many wars vs animals lol

@betternot1871

3 жыл бұрын

Whether feral hogs or feral cats lol

@tdog152

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if its because some idiot decided to bring a random overseas animal into a complex environment and expect it to do nothing

@jonathanwhite3507

3 жыл бұрын

@@betternot1871 don't forget their loss against the emus.

@mikehanner3489

3 жыл бұрын

@@tdog152 how do you explan the loss 80 years ago to native emus

@striveknight4782

3 жыл бұрын

A War with EMUs

They were known as underground mutton and fed a lot of people during the depression. Had a lot on the farm (NE VIC) in 1986 but haven’t seen one for 10years.

@timnavarrette3274

2 жыл бұрын

Rabbit is great bbq! Catch em ,prep em ,eat em! Feed the homeless.

@djha4287

Жыл бұрын

I really want to taste them. Why aren't they available anymore? Do you know?Rabbit meat should be available in supermarkets, and restaurants.

Good on you guys for going back time and time again to follow up on the story. A lot of people will do a story then set and forget. This time lapse shows your level of professional is im and your dedication on doing a story that does really effect Australia. Even though its something that not a lot of people talk about.

Australia: we have the most poisonous animal of every species, sharks and crocodiles Rabbit: takes over

@sivartb7273

3 жыл бұрын

They just can't win.

@1legend517

Жыл бұрын

What does that tell you about how deadly our country is if rabbits can thrive here. Lol

@WeltSchmerz1349

Жыл бұрын

So what a problem? In Australia, just make ground shaking (a mob of men jumps, f.ex.) - and with a miserable squeal, all the bunnies will fall down to Cosmos... XD

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Australian need to remember that Bugs bunny won in every episode against impossible odds.

@jammm3660

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry,For adding a 1 like to your 69 likes

@soulshadoww55

Жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@penginator88

Жыл бұрын

i mean you are not wrong

@jamied8678

Жыл бұрын

Yes well we all know the yanks like to think that they're invincible despite overwhelming evidence the that is not the case lol

3:22 I'm betting the historian has never had "tinned" rabbit. Pressure can rabbits the same as bone in chickens. No such thing as bad food, just bad cooks.

@Sporkonafork1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I saw that part and was like what does this guy have against rabbit meat lol

@manasseskamau5327

2 жыл бұрын

Can’t imagine they are wasting such healthy and delicious meat.

@punker4Real

2 жыл бұрын

we should ship the rabbits to starving countries they would love to eat them

@AlexOjideagu2

2 жыл бұрын

I thought that too Rabbit was a staple in the UK before chicken mass production

@samjennings6791

2 жыл бұрын

Rabbit is absolutely delicious

I don't understand why these are not being hunted for meat, in mass.

@johne7123

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose you didn't easily go hungry when the rabbits were in full force. Wonder if people can eat the virus ones

@johnnunn8688

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a hot country, consider the logistics.

@muhammadasruni8992

2 жыл бұрын

So true 👍

@someaafrika.3379

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@veran6219

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly - that turns it into a fortune - even if they eat the crops

"Yo wanna take a few rabbits with us to australia to shoot?" "Sure, what could go wrong"

@scootergrant8683

3 жыл бұрын

Well they didn't know back then. But they sure did a few decades after.

@Smurf5738

3 жыл бұрын

Same logic put snakeheads in florida

@brq267

2 жыл бұрын

"Yeah, it's not like the few surviving individuals will multiply into a population of around 100 million and devastate the local ecosystem, right?"

@nelzelpher7158

2 жыл бұрын

Bring only male rabbits or make sure to kill them all!

Australia’s inadvertently breeding super bunnies.

@feather563

3 жыл бұрын

@Tony .w lmao xd

This has to be one of the few instances where a plague can be traced back to the guy who introduced the source.

This looks like what my grandpa described in western Kansas in the 1940s. They had the same rabbit drives where the town would all get to get together and club thousands of rabbits.

Tell the rabbits it's time for lock-down and social distancing.

@suemills4434

3 жыл бұрын

Think they evolve so fast they figured it out. K5 not spreading...

@personalfunfest

3 жыл бұрын

that only works on 🐑🐑🐑

@Sk-ym1uv

3 жыл бұрын

Rabbit: “we are stronger than humans. We don’t die from COVID-19.”

@ShannonSouthAfrica

3 жыл бұрын

They dont understand English

@adriankingston4338

3 жыл бұрын

No because then i will have to throw a boom stick down their burrows 😐

Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. All I can picture is Bugs and Daffy 😂

@joelalvares8351

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 .... makes complete sense now..... "What's up Doc..." The Doc dude is an Auzzie virologist fella.... 😂😂

@bdb34mc84

3 жыл бұрын

Love it!! I miss Loony Tunes on Sat mornings

@girishmahajan3646

3 жыл бұрын

Emus and kangaroos chilling in background

I’m still lamenting the catastrophic loss of wildlife in the fires of Australia. Still makes me sad.😢

@PacoQuerak

2 жыл бұрын

then plant something besides eucalypts

@Tea.is.fantastic.2019

2 жыл бұрын

Australia belongs to its native animals who live there for centuries it doesn't belong to criminals who come and grab their land

@AY-vi2ld

2 жыл бұрын

They bounce back and thrive quickly Australia is made for fire

@rotorheadv8

2 жыл бұрын

Australia has always had fires. It always recovers.

@johnnunn8688

2 жыл бұрын

@@PacoQuerak, exactly.

I raised rabbits in high school! Again in my first year as a newly Wed. We did not have 2 pennies to rub together, but we always had meat!

@zyrilesteban5817

Жыл бұрын

Smart

Not anymore, mice have CLEARLY taken the crown.

@lukemarchionne

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr 😒 and the vegans say relocating them how about we relocate them in there house 🥰🥰

@ulwimi_oluninzi

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukemarchionne Ye

@deanpd3402

2 жыл бұрын

6 months later, and we are well into summer after a pretty cold winter and still no sign or a return of the mice plague.

@Ajitkl666

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@thomasgeorge4559

2 жыл бұрын

They sure seem to have found my house this year. I'm catching as many as 3 a night.

If it were in US, there would be a great American Rabbit hunting season.

@jonnygonehawking380

3 жыл бұрын

there is a virus in the US that is killing jackrabbits and cottontails it is in all the western 6-1-21

@jonnygonehawking380

3 жыл бұрын

Its called RHDV2

@jthepickle7

3 жыл бұрын

Been there, done that with the bison.

@oscarguijosa7881

3 жыл бұрын

We have wild hogs in Texas and still can't control them despite people killing thousands of them.

@abubakaranwar6859

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarguijosa7881 the reason wild/feral hogs are not in control because ranchers find it profitable they let people hunt on their property for $200-300 dollars that is why these ranchers dont want to get rid of them in first place not all of them but few of those ranchers

In the UK we get rid of our small and large mammals by covering half the country in tarmac and simply driving around - the roads are absolutely coated with dead badgers, hedgehogs, foxes, deer and, of course, rabbits. Wonderfully effective.

@elohimdagod

2 жыл бұрын

The European way lol

@yoboikamil525

2 жыл бұрын

"how do you cull invasive species" "car"

@--Nath--

2 жыл бұрын

We do the same here, but more dirt roads due to the scale.

@eyeoftruth4405

Жыл бұрын

Ya U.K were you allow invasive cats to roam free, legally

Snakes, spiders, sharks, jellyfish, rats and now rabbits, Australia is making so many enemies in animal kingdom.

@proudlywild1491

Жыл бұрын

That is not the same 💀 jellyfish, spiders, snakes are all native to Australia for millions of years

@goodshipkaraboudjan

Жыл бұрын

Er what? This is about invasive species. Sharks, snakes, spiders and jellyfish are native.

Meanwhile in Florida, the Everglades have been invaded by Burmese pythons that were released into the ecosystem by owners who no longer wanted them as pets.

@Diddley_Squat

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget pigs, and a lot of different plants.

@publicdomain3378

3 жыл бұрын

Them hogs will be good for the coming years

@ayunkhan2395

3 жыл бұрын

The pythons were introduced through a hurricane, not the owners themselves. Just a few hurricane survivor pythons ventured into the wilds and became invasive

@wesleydaub8002

3 жыл бұрын

Send the Pythons to Australia, bunny problem over.

@ayunkhan2395

3 жыл бұрын

@@wesleydaub8002 then youll have a python problem, mate

"Is it all you got, humans? We are rabbits, we stand tall and proud!"

@Rawflcounsel76

3 жыл бұрын

you mean "we hop high and fast"!

@gutsdw

3 жыл бұрын

More like screeching and running away

@nabayanchakma2419

3 жыл бұрын

Annihilate humans and cultivate carrots

@Zhang158

3 жыл бұрын

Get lost Peta guy

@sannidhyabalkote9536

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zhang158 bhai Joke sar ke upar se gaya tere

Can we take a second to appreciate the rabbit emoji used in the title?

The video contains a lot of useful information, thank you for the video and wish you lots of health and success!

bunnies: "so they took us to this distant shore--and then they decided half a century later to whack us--"

@allenjenkins7947

4 жыл бұрын

They were brought out to be whacked in the first place. Same with foxes, which were introduced so that "gentlemen" could ride to hounds.

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

"Briiiight Eyyyesss... burning like fire..."

Australia is so plagued with introduced animals, from cane toad, mouse, feral pig, rabbit, camel, water buffalo, feral cat, feral dog. The list goes on and on.

@deanpd3402

2 жыл бұрын

...and yet we still manage to produce food for not only this nation but for export markets as well.

@josephastier7421

2 жыл бұрын

"camel"?

@joevarga5982

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a living Hell. And now Covid vaccine mandate madness.

@cemasti4524

2 жыл бұрын

How r Camels?

@DIRTYPLACCY

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephastier7421 yeah we have the biggest camel population in the world

Australia and their wars are so hilarious😂😂😂

Every month as a child my father, born in 1915, and his 2 brothers and sister would walk across their Hilston farm paddocks banging pots and pans. His parents would string chicken wire in the corner of the paddock. The rabbits would hop out of their burrows and would be captured by the wire fence. They would spend the rest of the day clubbing the rabbits and skinning them.

When they blew up that rabbit-hole reminds me of Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack classic

Rabbits are the horniest animal alive. I love rabbit they look so innocent.

@stephenbrewster3878

3 жыл бұрын

But do you love them when you are a farmer and rabbits eat all your crops and then you go broke

@seangaw6429

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbrewster3878 you should support world hunger with these rabbits great for the world and great for economy. Why do you resort to chemical attacks.

@justarandomyoutubeviewer2749

3 жыл бұрын

@@seangaw6429 rabbit,, rabbies. Nah

@jayanepal1880

3 жыл бұрын

lol im dead

@maxxxdrone7354

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbrewster3878 farmers stop conquering rabbit land so they can leave in peace

Fascinating series. I may watch more.

'Breeding like rabbits' ahh now I know where that terminology comes from !

@nilesh7217

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah like playboy magazine

When my Chinese and Nigerian brothers see this, by shaking their head they will say " oh this is a big waste"

@javiercantu9271

3 жыл бұрын

Well the chinese eat anything that lives and maybe the Nigerians should learn to grow some food in the 21st century

@akunajoshua

3 жыл бұрын

@@javiercantu9271. And Europeans should learn not to kill any moving thing.

@javiercantu9271

3 жыл бұрын

@@akunajoshua they cant chinese ate them all

@galihpambudi1494

3 жыл бұрын

As Indonesian when saw this videos, yes this is waste... Waste everything....

@akunajoshua

3 жыл бұрын

@@javiercantu9271. I mean humans. Thought I was speaking about rabbits, that's way below your standards

We had a bunch when I was a kid. My dad gave a single shot .22 and a quarter a bunny. By the end of the summer all was well.

@iamthejabberwock2872

3 жыл бұрын

Good man your father.

@johnwilliamknox7156

3 жыл бұрын

Robber

@MussaKZN

3 жыл бұрын

Yer mate same but I didn’t get cash I got a pat on the back when I had shot gutted and skinned then! Heaven forbid a teenager took his .22 on his bike to shoot rabbits down the creek!! PS $18 a rabbit at the market!🤣

@dun0790

3 жыл бұрын

Im probably just being stupid but i barely understood any of that i got rabbit and i think .22 is a small caliber round mostly for small game?

@kkwun4969

3 жыл бұрын

@@dun0790 i dont know where youre from but i think rabbits are plenty small 🤣

We've got the same problems here in NZ with both rabbits and the Ausi opossum, which is devastating to our native bush. Bloody greenies some years back just about killed the posi fur trade, not understanding what the threat was here in NZ. Fur has been blended with I think merino wool for garments. Govt does huge drops of 10.80 ,poison to help control them, because it is the most economical and in some areas the only way to do so. Hugely criticed for doing so of course, but generally speaking, I don't think we have a choice! I might be wrong, but I think the ring tailed opossum is protected in Ausi

@dinkdankdoo3035

2 жыл бұрын

Cats are the problem. Always are.

@scootergrant8683

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget wallabies.

@Paul-qs3nu

Жыл бұрын

I toured NZ in a camper van North and South Islands , my cousin lives in the north, and l remember asking him about these skid marks at the side of the road. Apparently the opossums you could see the lights of their eye's at night, and the kiwis would swerve to run them over, saw quite a lot of flatten one's

@mohammadnoormauludadnan1847

Жыл бұрын

Just send the vietnamese to hunt it for free...

@m1ytcaws

Жыл бұрын

When apex predator extinct by humans these thing happens with humans

Fascinating! I remember eating rabbit stew regularly growing up. In the 60s, Dad would shoot them. What a pity we can't find a way to use them for human consumption.

@punker4Real

2 жыл бұрын

China would take them

@ShayneMicchia

2 жыл бұрын

love braised rabbit nanna style!

@trevorlewis847

Жыл бұрын

Rabbit friccasee yum

They’re unintentionally making super rabbits that are immune to every single virus

@gaestroorly4668

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe the rabbit is good at social distancing so that the viruses can't spread 😂

@saiko9472

3 жыл бұрын

Hope it can survive covid-19. We should eat the rabbit.

@TheHmoobkey

3 жыл бұрын

They most likely are gonna make super soldier rabbits lol

@MrGigi-dz9cv

3 жыл бұрын

Everytime, there will be a small number of individuals, that will survive, and gain immunity, or escape the disease. Wether it îs about humans, birds or animals, they will reproduce to replace the missing population. It is called natural sellection.

@MrGigi-dz9cv

3 жыл бұрын

This is how, strong individuals remain to reproduce. Weak genetics are excluded from propagation.

It was 1978 and one of the coldest winters in Texas near Dallas. Construction work had stopped and there was hardly any food in the house and I was stuck at home by roads cover in ice. The water pipes had been frozen for days, so living in the rural countryside if you needed to pee you just went outside. It was night and I had just flipped on the back porch light to make a yellow snow deposit, when I saw movement at the edge of the light. IT WAS A RABBIT! I eased back inside and retrieved my shotgun. Looking out the back door again, but no rabbit this time. So, I turned off the light and stood the shotgun against the wall by the door. About 30 minutes later I turned on the back porch light again and thought I saw something again at the edge of the light. I took careful aim and BLAM! I saw something flip up and then lay still. I went out to proudly claim my tasty prize only to find out that I had bagged myself a full grown empty oil can that had blown into the yard. Not to be dissuaded by a minor setback, I turned off the light and placed the weapon back in it's waiting position. About an hour later I went to peek again. Behold, a very recognizable Cottontail Rabbit was occupying the center of the beam of my back yard flood light. In seconds the shotgun came up, the rabbit bolted and I made a snap shot at a fleeing blur just as it made it to the edge of the light. Then all was still. I was hesitant to go look, remembering my last fiasco, but I trudged through the snow towards my prey's departure path. Standing at the edge of the light I couldn't see very well into the darkness beyond, but as my eyes became accustomed to the dark a small blob appeared just a few feet away. I had got him! Bearing my trophy back to the house I proudly proclaimed to my wife that meat was back on the menu! The wife boiled the rabbit and made dumplings to go with it to make it go further. We got two meals each from that small bundle of protein and we savored every bite. Now, normally I preferred my rabbit fried, as boiled rabbit tends to be stringy, but there was no complaints coming from either of us at that dinner table that night. So, just because some people might see rabbits as a problem, someone on the other side of the world might just see them as a blessing. I know we did!

@uow513

3 жыл бұрын

Have you thought about writing professionally? You are a natural story teller.

@justdoingitjim7095

3 жыл бұрын

@@uow513 I've written a few short stories for some magazines and a bit of poetry here and there, but I couldn't make a living at it. I'm an old man with lots of stories, most are true, but I have taken a few "liberties" to embellish some. Just to "enhance" the overall listening experience of course. While your encouragement is humbling and most appreciated, I'm probably better suited to sitting in a rocking chair reliving stories of my youth to a few young people who don't have many experiences of their own. I've lived a life that most people only dream of and I don't mind sharing it one bit! Good day and have a wonderful life!

@Dukov82

3 жыл бұрын

I agree great story telling !! Please take the time to write a novel :-)

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "multiply like rabbits."

Wow! Couldn't help thinking of Richard Adam's WATERSHIP DOWN!

thats a dangerous game they are playing

@nickhowatson4745

3 жыл бұрын

mate these people are experts.

@jarretdietzler7750

3 жыл бұрын

Only dangerous for the rabbits

@zeeshantamanna604

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickhowatson4745 yes,mate these experts are not able to make effective vaccine of covid-19 till now....

@SY27196

3 жыл бұрын

So true Experimenting

@chadlemon2335

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

I lived in Australia in the late 60's. Me and my father hunted rabbits with .22's every weekend for meat. Dad also hunted wild pigs. Rabbits were every where.

@rochellelisa7959

3 жыл бұрын

And why shouldnt they? The rabbits were brought in to provide food and pelts. Weren't they?

@danelobe2524

3 жыл бұрын

@@rochellelisa7959 yeah buy they over populated and destroyed sertain plant and eco sysyems. They were like roaches.....

@SF-ku2hp

3 жыл бұрын

@@rochellelisa7959 if you watched the video 24 were brought over for hunting on Christmas Day Lisa

@rochellelisa7959

3 жыл бұрын

@@SF-ku2hp in the USA numerous species became extinct due to hunting. I'm not saying there isn't a problem but poisoning and spreading virus actually does a lot of harm to domesticated animals and the environment doesnt it?

@SF-ku2hp

3 жыл бұрын

@@rochellelisa7959 The virus was engineered for rabbits. So invasive species do not harm the environment? Asian carp are not causing any harm to waterways in the midwest. Spotted lantern flies cause no harm? Invasive plants like kudzoo cause no harm to native plants?

Nice one Thomas Austin

Wow...! This is impressive journalism.

Khaleesivirus was also quite devastating to the city of King's Landing.

@siddheshrane

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂Underrated

@nunyabiznes33

3 жыл бұрын

It reduced a man into "She's much kween", "We need allies", and "I don't know what else to say".

@nolashingout4940

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@festyguy7405

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that!!

@Don-is2rl

2 жыл бұрын

😆😆 nice...

Australia as a feral cat problem A rabbit problem A wild boar problem Call me , I'm the problem solver Only thing that the Australians need to provide is barbecue sauce

@redactedgamersgd1788

3 жыл бұрын

and some fire

@jimthomas777

3 жыл бұрын

@@redactedgamersgd1788 , I have my own fire , I graduated from firebug to arsonist

summer 2021 i had a large cotton tail rabbit in my yard sometimes who like to sunbath in the grass, we have a fenced in yard and most of our neighbors do not, so i think the rabbit felt safe., but there are alot of hawks, owls, escaped dogs, coyotes, foxes to keep rabbits in check

Rabbit is delicious. Don't poison them hunt & BBQ them, share with friends.

@velvetindigonight

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed all the rubbish sold in supermarkets and fast food joints................... We need 'bigger thinkers' who see the whole picture and have a will to implemtn alas they are missing.

@elmackoful

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think you understad how many there are they did try hunting them if you watched the entire video, Hunt and bbq them is such a naive way of thinking

@kevinreyimperial9112

3 жыл бұрын

Idiot

@Wasserkaktus

3 жыл бұрын

There are way more than you could ever eat.

@terenceding1210

3 жыл бұрын

max bäckman lol Australians has no idea of how cooking rabbit. Check rabbit cuisine in China, many people love it. Demand is over supply.

Australia: pests! *waging biological warfare against rabbits* Indonesia: say what mate? *munching on rabbit satay*

Oh yeah thanks for bringing them over to NZ too Oz

Near Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1960s when you would get out of car it would look like the desert would move, then a few years later you would see no jackrabbits. I was told it was just a cycle

Stupid govenrment taking guns away from hunters. The way the Rabbits suffer with injecting diseases is cruel.

@sticustom

4 жыл бұрын

Dredious honestly do you think farmers have the time to hunt rabbits all day? Of cause they don’t and that’s why they welcome shooters onto their farms to hunt them. Also with the removal of semi automatics it makes it harder to cull them as bolt action means one rabbit gets shot instead of two or three with a semi auto.

@trappermario40

4 жыл бұрын

I use a 5 shot bolt action and I do pretty good, I don't need semi auto or auto, that's for sure.

@allenjenkins7947

4 жыл бұрын

@@trappermario40 I'm sorry, but as a recreational hunter myself, who also uses a 5-shot bolt action, there is no way that we will ever shoot enough of them to make a difference. It is a shame about self-loading rimfires and shotguns being so heavily restricted. At least Ardern showed a little bit more knowledge and sense than Howard.

@Wasserkaktus

3 жыл бұрын

Rabbits breed much faster than hunters can kill them in Australia.

@blindfredy6128

3 жыл бұрын

@@scott_itall8638 No animal cruelty here. Move on nothing to see here.

Imagine if these rabbits suddenly became as carnivorous as prehistoric marsupials back in the Pleistocene.

@aquarius5719

3 жыл бұрын

They would eat mice...

This reminds me of a childrens story I remember from my childhood. "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly".

Thanks. ✌🏻👊

As we’re coming up on a depression, folks are going to need these rabbits

@stuntmangMUSIC

3 жыл бұрын

Why u think rabbit is a food source exactly? Like 10 of u posted this same thing. It's called 'rabbit starvation', it starts when you start eating rabbits. It's stringy fatless nasty meat, you will die of starvation eating rabbit. I'm glad u guys r so smart and we can all eat good rabbit in the future😂

@shhheee

3 жыл бұрын

@@stuntmangMUSIC well technically you can if you mix the rabbit with some vegetables, that should provide enough nourishment. I mean if vegans can live off veggies then we could think of it as a vegan diet but with rabbit.

@erismorreti549

3 жыл бұрын

To get rabbit starvation you have to be actively starving, eat only rabbit, nothing else, and those rabbits have to be actively starving as well. It’s a lean meat, tastes like chicken, and isn’t going to make anyone starve 🤦🏼‍♀️

@mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo8212

2 жыл бұрын

They should breed them with a bigger breed instead of poisoning them... A bigger slower rabbit could be easily eradicated... As a food source...

@stk6755

2 жыл бұрын

And send them to people who do not have it food 😲😟😞

Such a waste to poison them. They could feed a lot of hungry people and they do taste good.

@newatthis50

3 жыл бұрын

Almost impossible to hunt or trap them down to non destructive levels

@vladimirlagos2688

3 жыл бұрын

Exploiting them as food was not a solution. Rabbits were literally killing the continent, driving plants and animals to extinction, and if left alone they would have turned all Australia into a barren unlivable desert.

@benlewis7686

3 жыл бұрын

@@newatthis50 wrong....every animal that has had the bounty removed from hunting has exploded...rabbits for skin and meat saw a remarkable increase in numbers...the end of commercial fox hunting for skins again saw dramatic increases....dingo and wild dog bounty was removed in n.s.w and you guessed it the numbers have exploded even with mass baiting programs running....removal of pig boxes from small rural towns and....yep pigs numbers are going through the roof....hunting or trapping for pet food or human consumption would be a better option than playing god and infecting them with viruses...cos what could go wrong with that.....

@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM

3 жыл бұрын

Canning the meat and sending it to Africa ...they did in the war Times so they could și IT now

@drmodestoesq

3 жыл бұрын

@@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM All of south east Asia is teeming with people. Java has 120 million people and is the size of Iowa. They could just shove the rabbit in a can and sell it to the Indonesians and other densely populated countries.

Its how the most dangerous animals are in Australia but their biggest problem is rabbits

Wild rabbit was the only meat my French relatives had during the war.... I've only ever had domestic rabbit in a mushroom and wine sauce..... too bad these Australian rabbits can't be better utilized.

The whole biowarfare approach seems unnecessarily risky to me.

@mathewhawkins5401

4 жыл бұрын

I reckon next pandemic in the making

@josipmickovic2572

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@celticwisdom.7430

4 жыл бұрын

Deplorable and half of the world are starving.

@tegan71969

4 жыл бұрын

Agree, a ridiculously extreme and uncalled for measure to take. It could come back around as a pandemic one day. Even the poison bait could cause issues for native animals, specifically the predators who eat the rabbits.

@wannabecarguy

4 жыл бұрын

@Old Soul ..or we could teach our children one mate for life...

24 years after your going back that is journalism right there

@ktkt9982

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful isn't it. I am so proud of our ABC.

A Jack Russel and a .22. Kept the population down on my parents property and had many good feeds!.

Teams of ferrets,with jack russels ,and their handlers.!

Eat them! Greetings from Italy!!!

The hell is wrong with Australia? I clicked on one feral cat video, and then suddenly every goddamn species is a feral natural threat in Australia?

@yeahokbuddy2510

4 жыл бұрын

Australia is a pussy

@bransonjallim2620

3 жыл бұрын

dsa asd sama

@mgmjferg89

3 жыл бұрын

I clicked on the same video

@edswope28

3 жыл бұрын

@@lachlanshaw4684 you are totally wrong my friend. The top 4 food exporters in the world are China, India, Brazil, and.....wait for it, wait for it.....yeah, the U.S.A. Australia isn't in the top 5. Sorry. I hope the truth doesn't hurt your feelings.

@fjeldfross9327

3 жыл бұрын

Because australia has a very fragile,unice ecosystem. Imported animals are throwing the balance out wack and endager the native animals. It happens al over the world, the pythons in the Everglades for example, but Australias species are suffering pretty hard.

Wow so much food in Australia

Some years ago, Britain had the good fortune to lose well over 80% of its wild rabbits to disease both in England and Scotland. These animals have cost farmers and plant nurseries in Britain fortunes in lost crops; their absence has been a blessing to growers and gardeners alike. And now, some incredibly dim spark in the UK has decided they should be reintroduced, encouraging the building of 'rabbit hotels,' would you believe? It's not a native animal, never has been. I don't understand the thinking behind it. So, keep on fighting them rabbits, Australia. They are a pest, and no matter if they are endangered in their own native country - that's a problem for that country's own wildlife services, not anyone else's.

@ghostrider6267

2 жыл бұрын

Likely proposed by bureaucratic insanity from listening to a bunch of stupid college students who know nothing about what rabbit populations do to a country.

@burleybater

2 жыл бұрын

In northern and northwestern Canada and elsewhere, a lot of birds of prey, plus bobcats, lynxes, pumas, wolverines, weasels, martens, minks, wolves and wolverines, bears just about anything that eats meat, keep the rabbit population balanced. So they're not so much pests, as the natural food for a crapload of really interesting animals and birds. In other words, a natural balance system that didn't get messed up.

Reminds me of how wolves being reintroduced improved the ecosystem of yellowstone national park.

@penginator88

Жыл бұрын

do you think what im thinkiing :)

“We’ve infected them with deadly viruses” 😳 like something right out of Chyna’s playbook

@punker4Real

2 жыл бұрын

GMO VlRUSES

@ChineseKiwi

Жыл бұрын

These virus exist rabbit populations in other places in the world just not in Australia. So if they could cause a pandemic it would have stated a long time ago.

Not only did Australia lose a war against emus, they're losing a war against RABBITS

Free food (rabbit) is blessing, not a problem. It can even be exported.

WOW! I lived in China for a while. There was a Sichuan restaurant near my condo that a had a great rabbit dish. I had never eaten rabbits in the US but after accidentally ordering rabbit because I can't read Chinese, it became my favourite dish. Sadly, there was some problem in the supply line and they quit serving rabbit.

Emus, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits....Australia just can't catch a break..

@28russ

2 жыл бұрын

At least the emus were already bloody here 🤷‍♂🤣🤣

Antelope valley California had a bounty on the coyote population that cause a jackrabbit problem in the 1940's. The locals set up fencing to corral them and made a great slaughter of them. Alfalfa was the major crop at the time.

They are so cute. 😲

They are extremely delicious. Don't use poison omg...

@antechinus100

3 жыл бұрын

Well, start eating them and don't stop. Do something useful for a change.

@nameunavailable315

3 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin Patterson that’s is the truest thing I’ve heard all day

@huh904

3 жыл бұрын

I'm hungry now

@Pochonesian

3 жыл бұрын

You must not be a farmer. You can only eat so many rabbits, but wait until they destroy your crop, soil and livelihood. If I try my best everyday to kill and eat all of the rabbits on my farm, but my two neighbors never do the same... well you do the math.

@nameunavailable315

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pochonesian I work on a farm but here in Oklahoma there really not a problem

“As soon as there’s one there’s many” Has any one told her it takes two rabbits to make a baby

@parshuram7431

3 жыл бұрын

That was exactly what I thought while watching the video😂😂😂.

It's a perfect opportunity to feed the world.

These cute Easter figures was really a pest in Australia, together with feral cats!

The government should promote and all year round rabbit hunting season and allow for spotlight hunting which is the best and most efficient method for rabbit and European hare. The ban on semiauto rifles in .22 rimfire caliber should be lifted and ammunition subsidized to commercial hunters.

@PencilProper

4 жыл бұрын

There already is an all year round rabbit hunting season on Rabbits under spotlight. No bag limits

@markshort9098

4 жыл бұрын

They should still lift the ban on semiautomatic rifles of all kinds and take the criminals out of the population instead.. Australia protects criminals and attacks victims of crime and i have personal experience of this.. Australia is a country where murders can be out of jail in a couple of months to for murdering a baby, it's disgusting what has happened to this once great country

Wish there were more rabbits about...none here in central west...i miss my feed😥😥

@brianisme6498

4 жыл бұрын

Paul G the destructive to Australia’s ecosystem. If you want one get one as a pet

Cook! Give me Hasenpfeffer! Ooooo. Rabbit sausage, rabbit gravy with biscuits.....

This is what when you mess with "MOTHER NATURE"

In the early 70's I use to trap rabbits and could make nearly the equivalent to my weekly wage on the weekend with just 10 rabbit traps. I use to get $2 per rabbit and had more orders than I could handle. Although we look back now and say the traps were cruel, I really miss my trapping day's.

@Camboge

3 жыл бұрын

That fur and meat is worth something somewhere

@samjennings6791

2 жыл бұрын

Those were the days were Australia wasn't PC and I would have loved to live in that time

@dubistverrueckt

2 жыл бұрын

@@samjennings6791 And killing them horribly with viruses is PC? what did I miss??

@kamrankhan-ud5vd

Жыл бұрын

Australia apparently needs you and your skill set

@Springfield1795

Жыл бұрын

There's nothing cruel about trapping. It's been done for as long as humans have existed, and it's still being done around the world to protect ecosystems. The trappers in American states like Pennsylvania show a great example of how to do trapping ethically

Imagine the rabbits creating a virus that killed humans. Oh wait!

@sticknbox6157

3 жыл бұрын

imagine being damn near on the lowest part of the food chain lul gotta suck

@cockruukovo3237

3 жыл бұрын

🐇💭💥💨💨NOT UNTILL THEY..START HUNTING n EATING HUMANz FIRST💨😷🍼

@sukeshvs2218

3 жыл бұрын

@@cockruukovo3237 give it to me also

I live in Durham, UK, rabbits never returned after the first blast of mexamotosis. Back in the 60s and 70s, I never even saw a rabbit, and I lived in a very rural place. It was a 100% kill. Maybe the virus was more effective in certain areas? Any thoughts?

Very Intelligent.

These are clean animals, and very organic too. Find a market for them, Singapore, Hongkong, and China.

@alexanderludvigsen1893

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, tell the Chinese that Australian rabbits have healing properties

@williamlau7179

3 жыл бұрын

U have poisoned and "virused" them; now becoming contagious, poisonous, non marketable/consumable. Not even be fertilizers. Self induced unsolvable problem. Too bad!

@Jimmy-ng4wy

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamlau7179 actually some rural land in Australia has clean rabbits we hunt and eat em but they are ours😆😂

@mycuterabbits7754

2 жыл бұрын

Nooo, Singapore DONT eat rabbits, I don’t see any

@manhphan1377

2 жыл бұрын

Bring them to vietnam and these rabbit would be exctinct i swear

Rabbits gonna be food for so many people... but they lives are wasted 🐇

@Rinkyu

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@arthurjohnson8395

2 жыл бұрын

The rabbits aren't meant to live in Australia

@mycuterabbits7754

2 жыл бұрын

For you, but a more people keep that as pets, and dare not eat rabbits, cuz they are toooooooooooooooo cute.

@zaloreyes830

2 жыл бұрын

@@mycuterabbits7754 xDDDD you are considering PETS this plague? omg

@LD12121

2 жыл бұрын

I can’t say us Aussies are fond of eating rabbits, lots of people here would consider them as “pets” rather than “food”.

I must be going crazy but I know I've seen like 3 or 4 of these documentaries about some type of animal taking over Australia.

Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos. Give them Iodine just trying to help. I like pest control.

That’s what happens when the predators have been eliminated

@riddlemethat4911

3 жыл бұрын

Michael McLeod rabbits have very few natural predators in numbers too small to combat their quick-to-breed nature.

@harry80124hill

3 жыл бұрын

Please enlighten us as to what predators have been eliminated from Australia

@grancito2

3 жыл бұрын

They were introduced, where there were not enough predators.

@Aethuviel

3 жыл бұрын

There are no natural predators of rabbits in /Australia/.

@mr.mystery9338

3 жыл бұрын

@@harry80124hill the tiger dog

If they lift the red tape for hunting this would not be a problem like in Victoria you can only hunt pests during daylight hours .And i don't see a lot of rabbits in the middle of the day .And in NSW you need to get a R licence and book in a time to go hunting get rid of the red tape and watch them disappear

@velvetindigonight

4 жыл бұрын

Rediculous shows you how tied up Australia is by the 0.001% who wish to profit from everything...........

@allenjenkins7947

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but this is not quite correct. In Victoria, you can hunt pests at any time. It's game animals that can only be hunted in daylight. Even then, because of the success of the management program, you can now hunt deer on private property at night*. All State Forests, most unoccupied Crown land, some State parks and even National parks are open to various forms of hunting. Private property is always open to pest hunting and game in season, with owner's permission. NSW has their ridiculous "R-licence" system and Qld has banned all hunting on state land. As far as I know, SA and Tas are similar to Vic and WA is similar to Qld. *Source, gma.vic.gov.au

It safe to say that Bugs Bunny is not a favorite Loony Toon in Australia.

First the emu war, now it's time for the rabbit war.

Man would destroy everything

He's a idea bring back public land. Open public land up for hunting as they do in America and New Zealand and let the hunters clean up the Ferral animal from our country. Not every solution is a virus etc. You scientists have don't enough bloody damage with the introduction of the Cane toad amoungst others. Let the hunters hunt and do what we do best

The rabbit will never be defeated. Long live the Rabbit! 2024-Forever! 🐰🇱🇷🐇

There's rabbits breeding like crazy in Cow Bay and Forest Creek in the Daintree.