📺Watch the full series here: ruclips.net/p/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ruclips.net/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/видео.html Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ruclips.net/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/видео.html Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ruclips.net/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/видео.html Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ruclips.net/video/qLMehMZWq80/видео.html Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ruclips.net/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/видео.html Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ruclips.net/video/778Da7NCF6s/видео.html Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ruclips.net/video/t22hkF0A6h8/видео.html Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ruclips.net/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/видео.html Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ruclips.net/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/видео.html
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pythons were introduced through a hurricane, not the owners themselves. Just a few hurricane survivor pythons ventured into the wilds and became invasive
@@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
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 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.
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.
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.
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!🤣
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.
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.
@@stephenbrewster3878 you should support world hunger with these rabbits great for the world and great for economy. Why do you resort to chemical attacks.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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?
@@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?
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😂
@@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.
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 🤦🏼♀️
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 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!
Well, they're fighting the dingo because of the farmers, they're fighting the fox because of the farmers and they're fighting the feral cat because of the farmers, their property and their profits - and now does anyone wonder that there's a rabbit plague? Very interesting understanding of the processes in nature.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I miss rabbit satay. Their texture is like fish fillet but more soft and fluffy and it tastes like chicken. It has some kind of special taste too that i can't describe because of my limited vocabulary but it's delicious.
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.
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
At least in Australia they aren't welcoming to feral cats. In America, they want them to live as long as possible. Happy to sacrifice every living creature to them.
@@WhistlesToAnimals Still crying about feral cats I see? I hope you witness a dog eating your precious animals. Maybe that'll change your mind that cats aren't the only thing to worry about. Maybe one day we'll find a way to turn your tears and obsession with feral cats into food and water for animals at animal shelters.
How ironic it is . You go to someone else’s land butter them and capture there land than your bring in rabbits to enjoy your stay but a turnaround of events happend and now you are fighting againts rabbits with the same strategy you used against humans in usa . Nature is brilliant
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.
I watched your Landline program today it’s very disappointed and disturbing to watch. Because we unnecessarily introduce this poor animal in this country for the human consumption. Now unnecessarily wasting a very valuable food for the people in this country. I don’t know why.. I connote understand why they killing them unnecessarily but I know they are now enemies to the farmers. My question is why can’t they sell them to the public with out wasting the poor animal. A lot of people are waiting for to buy them including my self. With out wasting this very neutron free range products. You didn’t need to waste the money and the profess national skills why don’t you think about this alternative to promote this and save the farmers and the consumers please. Thanks for the opportunity.
You didn’t know? The term doesn’t specifically come from Australia’s rabbit problem - rabbits have always been infamous for their rapid breeding rates.
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.
You kidding me?you can hunt as many you want there is millions morr hiding,its a never ending cyrcle they breed and grow to fast,I wish there was a way to get rid of them without harming them
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
U have poisoned and "virused" them; now becoming contagious, poisonous, non marketable/consumable. Not even be fertilizers. Self induced unsolvable problem. Too bad!
*What do you think is the favorite color of David the Farmer who stars in this video ?* * 1996 : Appears in blue* 2000 : Appears in blue* 2019 : Appears in blueMy personal guess is that he loves red 😂🤣
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.
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.
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.
Oh god the australians are blessed with wild horses, wild kangaroos, wild bulls, and so much tasty rabbits 😁 Australia is a heaven for hunters and meat lovers
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.
Well Europeans make the nations they colonise some of the wealthiest, safest and most advanced nations on the planet. So enough of the white guilt crap.
@A W Java didn't help humanity at all. Human food comes from either palm or coconut as CPO or CCO. Javanese products are in your blood and your brain. Even humanity won't have smartphone if java island sunk to The seas
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
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
This video explained how the rabbits are destryoing the native envrionment and costing millions in damages and people are still to stupid to understand why they need to go
@@ralphvelthuis2359 They only have yellow and brown foxes in Canada, not REAL foxes that are red so a trade could be good. The coyotes can mate with the dingoes and become a Dingote
Install Barn Owl nest boxes. Have High School students in Wood Shop Class make them as a project. Barn Owls rely on nesting cavities to rear their chicks. Barns Owls have a large dietary overlap with pit vipers as they eat a lot of rodents and rabbits.
📺Watch the full series here: ruclips.net/p/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ruclips.net/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/видео.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ruclips.net/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/видео.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ruclips.net/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/видео.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ruclips.net/video/qLMehMZWq80/видео.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ruclips.net/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/видео.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ruclips.net/video/778Da7NCF6s/видео.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ruclips.net/video/t22hkF0A6h8/видео.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ruclips.net/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/видео.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ruclips.net/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/видео.html
It would have been nice if the ABC had acknowledge CSIRO for the rabbit drive footage used at the beginning of this clip.
Forgetting Australia Vs Aboriginals
Australia vs Emus
Australia vs feral cats
Australia vs rabbits
Seems they fight a lot of wars against animals over there.
I think there is even a water buffalo war.
Don't forget their war against liberty over the last thirty years.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Australia vs feral goats
Australia vs camels
@W W damn you are going to lose most of the native animals. I read even the platypus are in trouble.
Australia: we have the most poisonous animal of every species, sharks and crocodiles
Rabbit: takes over
They just can't win.
What does that tell you about how deadly our country is if rabbits can thrive here. Lol
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
damn bro, Australia is losing so many wars vs animals lol
Whether feral hogs or feral cats lol
I wonder if its because some idiot decided to bring a random overseas animal into a complex environment and expect it to do nothing
@@betternot1871 don't forget their loss against the emus.
@@tdog152 how do you explan the loss 80 years ago to native emus
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.
Rabbit is great bbq! Catch em ,prep em ,eat em! Feed the homeless.
I really want to taste them. Why aren't they available anymore? Do you know?Rabbit meat should be available in supermarkets, and restaurants.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Australian need to remember that Bugs bunny won in every episode against impossible odds.
Sorry,For adding a 1 like to your 69 likes
LOL!!!
i mean you are not wrong
Yes well we all know the yanks like to think that they're invincible despite overwhelming evidence the that is not the case lol
They are extremely delicious. Don't use poison omg...
Well, start eating them and don't stop. Do something useful for a change.
@Benjamin Patterson that’s is the truest thing I’ve heard all day
I'm hungry now
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.
@@Pochonesian I work on a farm but here in Oklahoma there really not a problem
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.
This has to be one of the few instances where a plague can be traced back to the guy who introduced the source.
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.
Don't forget pigs, and a lot of different plants.
Them hogs will be good for the coming years
The pythons were introduced through a hurricane, not the owners themselves. Just a few hurricane survivor pythons ventured into the wilds and became invasive
Send the Pythons to Australia, bunny problem over.
@@wesleydaub8002 then youll have a python problem, mate
If it were in US, there would be a great American Rabbit hunting season.
there is a virus in the US that is killing jackrabbits and cottontails it is in all the western 6-1-21
Its called RHDV2
Been there, done that with the bison.
We have wild hogs in Texas and still can't control them despite people killing thousands of them.
@@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
Australia’s inadvertently breeding super bunnies.
@Tony .w lmao xd
Stupid govenrment taking guns away from hunters.
The way the Rabbits suffer with injecting diseases is cruel.
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.
I use a 5 shot bolt action and I do pretty good, I don't need semi auto or auto, that's for sure.
@@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.
Rabbits breed much faster than hunters can kill them in Australia.
@@scott_itall8638 No animal cruelty here. Move on nothing to see here.
bunnies: "so they took us to this distant shore--and then they decided half a century later to whack us--"
They were brought out to be whacked in the first place. Same with foxes, which were introduced so that "gentlemen" could ride to hounds.
"Briiiight Eyyyesss... burning like fire..."
Tell the rabbits it's time for lock-down and social distancing.
Think they evolve so fast they figured it out. K5 not spreading...
that only works on 🐑🐑🐑
Rabbit: “we are stronger than humans. We don’t die from COVID-19.”
They dont understand English
No because then i will have to throw a boom stick down their burrows 😐
I don't understand why these are not being hunted for meat, in mass.
I suppose you didn't easily go hungry when the rabbits were in full force. Wonder if people can eat the virus ones
It’s a hot country, consider the logistics.
So true 👍
Exactly
Exactly - that turns it into a fortune - even if they eat the crops
Not anymore, mice have CLEARLY taken the crown.
Ikr 😒 and the vegans say relocating them how about we relocate them in there house 🥰🥰
@@lukemarchionne Ye
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.
Yup
They sure seem to have found my house this year. I'm catching as many as 3 a night.
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.
...and yet we still manage to produce food for not only this nation but for export markets as well.
"camel"?
Sounds like a living Hell. And now Covid vaccine mandate madness.
How r Camels?
@@josephastier7421 yeah we have the biggest camel population in the world
When my Chinese and Nigerian brothers see this, by shaking their head they will say " oh this is a big waste"
Well the chinese eat anything that lives and maybe the Nigerians should learn to grow some food in the 21st century
@@javiercantu9271. And Europeans should learn not to kill any moving thing.
@@akunajoshua they cant chinese ate them all
As Indonesian when saw this videos, yes this is waste... Waste everything....
@@javiercantu9271. I mean humans. Thought I was speaking about rabbits, that's way below your standards
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.
Yeah I saw that part and was like what does this guy have against rabbit meat lol
Can’t imagine they are wasting such healthy and delicious meat.
we should ship the rabbits to starving countries they would love to eat them
I thought that too Rabbit was a staple in the UK before chicken mass production
Rabbit is absolutely delicious
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.
Good man your father.
Robber
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!🤣
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?
@@dun0790 i dont know where youre from but i think rabbits are plenty small 🤣
They’re unintentionally making super rabbits that are immune to every single virus
Or maybe the rabbit is good at social distancing so that the viruses can't spread 😂
Hope it can survive covid-19. We should eat the rabbit.
They most likely are gonna make super soldier rabbits lol
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.
This is how, strong individuals remain to reproduce.
Weak genetics are excluded from propagation.
The whole biowarfare approach seems unnecessarily risky to me.
I reckon next pandemic in the making
Exactly
Deplorable and half of the world are starving.
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.
@Old Soul ..or we could teach our children one mate for life...
Can we take a second to appreciate the rabbit emoji used in the title?
"Is it all you got, humans? We are rabbits, we stand tall and proud!"
you mean "we hop high and fast"!
More like screeching and running away
Annihilate humans and cultivate carrots
Get lost Peta guy
@@Zhang158 bhai
Joke sar ke upar se gaya tere
Khaleesivirus was also quite devastating to the city of King's Landing.
😂😂Underrated
It reduced a man into "She's much kween", "We need allies", and "I don't know what else to say".
Wow
I was thinking about that!!
😆😆 nice...
Rabbits are the horniest animal alive.
I love rabbit they look so innocent.
But do you love them when you are a farmer and rabbits eat all your crops and then you go broke
@@stephenbrewster3878 you should support world hunger with these rabbits great for the world and great for economy. Why do you resort to chemical attacks.
@@seangaw6429 rabbit,, rabbies. Nah
lol im dead
@@stephenbrewster3878 farmers stop conquering rabbit land so they can leave in peace
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.
Rabbit is delicious. Don't poison them hunt & BBQ them, share with friends.
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.
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
Idiot
There are way more than you could ever eat.
max bäckman lol Australians has no idea of how cooking rabbit. Check rabbit cuisine in China, many people love it. Demand is over supply.
Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. Rabbit season,Duck season. All I can picture is Bugs and Daffy 😂
🤣🤣
.... makes complete sense now..... "What's up Doc..." The Doc dude is an Auzzie virologist fella.... 😂😂
Love it!! I miss Loony Tunes on Sat mornings
Emus and kangaroos chilling in background
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.
And why shouldnt they? The rabbits were brought in to provide food and pelts. Weren't they?
@@rochellelisa7959 yeah buy they over populated and destroyed sertain plant and eco sysyems. They were like roaches.....
@@rochellelisa7959 if you watched the video 24 were brought over for hunting on Christmas Day Lisa
@@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?
@@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?
I’m still lamenting the catastrophic loss of wildlife in the fires of Australia. Still makes me sad.😢
then plant something besides eucalypts
Australia belongs to its native animals who live there for centuries it doesn't belong to criminals who come and grab their land
They bounce back and thrive quickly
Australia is made for fire
Australia has always had fires. It always recovers.
@@PacoQuerak, exactly.
As we’re coming up on a depression, folks are going to need these rabbits
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😂
@@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.
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 🤦🏼♀️
They should breed them with a bigger breed instead of poisoning them... A bigger slower rabbit could be easily eradicated... As a food source...
And send them to people who do not have it food 😲😟😞
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!
Have you thought about writing professionally? You are a natural story teller.
@@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!
I agree great story telling !! Please take the time to write a novel :-)
Imagine if these rabbits suddenly became as carnivorous as prehistoric marsupials back in the Pleistocene.
They would eat mice...
Well, they're fighting the dingo because of the farmers, they're fighting the fox because of the farmers and they're fighting the feral cat because of the farmers, their property and their profits - and now does anyone wonder that there's a rabbit plague? Very interesting understanding of the processes in nature.
Reminds me of how wolves being reintroduced improved the ecosystem of yellowstone national park.
do you think what im thinkiing :)
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?
Australia is a pussy
dsa asd sama
I clicked on the same video
@@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.
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.
24 years after your going back that is journalism right there
Wonderful isn't it. I am so proud of our ABC.
Australia and their wars are so hilarious😂😂😂
Dude the u.s has alot of similar issues and lost actual wars 😂, not a bunch of feral animals running around in the middle of no where.
When they blew up that rabbit-hole reminds me of Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack classic
thats a dangerous game they are playing
mate these people are experts.
Only dangerous for the rabbits
@@nickhowatson4745 yes,mate these experts are not able to make effective vaccine of covid-19 till now....
So true
Experimenting
I agree
“As soon as there’s one there’s many”
Has any one told her it takes two rabbits to make a baby
That was exactly what I thought while watching the video😂😂😂.
the rabbits are avenging the aboriginals
That’s what happens when the predators have been eliminated
Michael McLeod rabbits have very few natural predators in numbers too small to combat their quick-to-breed nature.
Please enlighten us as to what predators have been eliminated from Australia
They were introduced, where there were not enough predators.
There are no natural predators of rabbits in /Australia/.
@@harry80124hill the tiger dog
Imagine the rabbits creating a virus that killed humans.
Oh wait!
imagine being damn near on the lowest part of the food chain lul gotta suck
🐇💭💥💨💨NOT UNTILL THEY..START HUNTING n EATING HUMANz FIRST💨😷🍼
@@cockruukovo3237 give it to me also
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.
There already is an all year round rabbit hunting season on Rabbits under spotlight. No bag limits
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
Where is the tasmanian tiger ? extinct ? now here is yourproblems
“We’ve infected them with deadly viruses” 😳 like something right out of Chyna’s playbook
GMO VlRUSES
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.
Why dont they just eat all those rabbits? They are expensive on my country lol
Guillermo C too lazy to put in the work
"Up to a million rabbits a year were killed for canning."
Brian D 👍, in the States we learned about the Australia rabbit problem in grade school, I’m 57, lol, you need to step up production.
@@Reitz86 same here...and they still couldn't control rabbits lol
Fun fact, rabbits taste like chicken lol
Mom shake and baked....and I helped
TheNatureLover it’s actually one of the healthiest meats but if you eat just rabbit for protein you would die
No. They taste like rabbit.
That's true my uncle make a really good stew with rabbit meat...
Not really don't lie
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.
Rabbits gonna be food for so many people... but they lives are wasted 🐇
Ikr
The rabbits aren't meant to live in Australia
@@mycuterabbits7754 xDDDD you are considering PETS this plague? omg
I can’t say us Aussies are fond of eating rabbits, lots of people here would consider them as “pets” rather than “food”.
I miss rabbit satay. Their texture is like fish fillet but more soft and fluffy and it tastes like chicken. It has some kind of special taste too that i can't describe because of my limited vocabulary but it's delicious.
Emus, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits....Australia just can't catch a break..
At least the emus were already bloody here 🤷♂🤣🤣
Open a hunting season. Sorry I forgot they took all your guns
its year round open season on rabbits and other ferals you mong
Tevita Phillips it’s time we stop the sibling rivalry 😊
@@tevitaphillips3196 With your airsoft. 😆😆😆
Fontaine King are you normal?
Not all just most of them and made it so hard most people don't bother
not sure if bobcats could survive the environment there but they are great rabbit killers
Australia also has a huge feral cat problem. Bobcats would breed and soon there would be a Bobcat problem!
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.
That fur and meat is worth something somewhere
Those were the days were Australia wasn't PC and I would have loved to live in that time
@@samjennings6791 And killing them horribly with viruses is PC? what did I miss??
Australia apparently needs you and your skill set
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
I heard feral cats and cane toads are also major invasive species in Australia.
they are feral cats have smashed the lizard and bird population and the cane toads nigh on wiped out the Murray cod
At least in Australia they aren't welcoming to feral cats. In America, they want them to live as long as possible. Happy to sacrifice every living creature to them.
@@WhistlesToAnimals Still crying about feral cats I see? I hope you witness a dog eating your precious animals. Maybe that'll change your mind that cats aren't the only thing to worry about. Maybe one day we'll find a way to turn your tears and obsession with feral cats into food and water for animals at animal shelters.
How ironic it is .
You go to someone else’s land butter them and capture there land than your bring in rabbits to enjoy your stay but a turnaround of events happend and now you are fighting againts rabbits with the same strategy you used against humans in usa . Nature is brilliant
Me as a foodie:Wait what?raBBiT Invasive?*processed to brought pots and pans, knife ,spoon, fork,chopstick,plane ticket*I'm ready where?
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.
Eat them! Greetings from Italy!!!
More Licenced firearms holders on contract to hunt them all, would be far better than indiscriminate baiting.
I watched your Landline program today it’s very disappointed and disturbing to watch. Because we unnecessarily introduce this poor animal in this country for the human consumption. Now unnecessarily wasting a very valuable food for the people in this country. I don’t know why.. I connote understand why they killing them unnecessarily but I know they are now enemies to the farmers. My question is why can’t they sell them to the public with out wasting the poor animal. A lot of people are waiting for to buy them including my self. With out wasting this very neutron free range products. You didn’t need to waste the money and the profess national skills why don’t you think about this alternative to promote this and save the farmers and the consumers please. Thanks for the opportunity.
You must mean 10k or 20k hunters then, on daily watch for the next 10years?
@@christopherwaldrop8115 I'd sign up for it.
@@carlwesternut2434 , in all seriousness, me too. 👍
@@asmoorthy1116 million dead from hunger every year
Australia has an industry they can develo right on their back yard. Harvest the rabbits for meat, and fur coats. If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
love how in many other countries rabbit is seen as a delicacy and their fur as a luxury - and in Australia you just burn them
yeah really a new market could be opened if they took advantage of it they could mak emillions
Do they eat them ?
@@punker4Real too expensive and too slow. Not to mention it incentivises people to breed them. See 'The Cobra Effect'.
'Breeding like rabbits' ahh now I know where that terminology comes from !
Yeah like playboy magazine
You didn’t know? The term doesn’t specifically come from Australia’s rabbit problem - rabbits have always been infamous for their rapid breeding rates.
The sniper grandson from TF2: I'll get my hunting equipment now
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.
China would take them
love braised rabbit nanna style!
Rabbit friccasee yum
To non-Australians this is totally hilarious. I like the rabbit canning idea best.
You kidding me?you can hunt as many you want there is millions morr hiding,its a never ending cyrcle they breed and grow to fast,I wish there was a way to get rid of them without harming them
@@leonardodtc1493 You mean the whole population of Aus could eat 1 per day and that wouldnt stop them?
@@leonardodtc1493 unfortunately not just to many of them then nothing to do with em when they are caught
Australia belongs to its native animals who live there for centuries it doesn't belong to criminals who come and grab their land
@@RafikisAnts eat them. Use the hide
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
These are clean animals, and very organic too.
Find a market for them, Singapore, Hongkong, and China.
Yeah, tell the Chinese that Australian rabbits have healing properties
U have poisoned and "virused" them; now becoming contagious, poisonous, non marketable/consumable. Not even be fertilizers. Self induced unsolvable problem. Too bad!
@@williamlau7179 actually some rural land in Australia has clean rabbits we hunt and eat em but they are ours😆😂
Bring them to vietnam and these rabbit would be exctinct i swear
Advertise them lapin en vin blanc.
It safe to say that Bugs Bunny is not a favorite Loony Toon in Australia.
They are up against everything from toads to camel...forgetting they themselves were among the intruders 🤭
@Pitar fan you realise most Australians are not convict descent right?
*What do you think is the favorite color of David the Farmer who stars in this video ?*
* 1996 : Appears in blue* 2000 : Appears in blue* 2019 : Appears in blueMy personal guess is that he loves red 😂🤣
I was just glad he stuck with Toyota after all those years
@@izzy031096 LOL 😂
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.
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.
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.
Need more Elmer Fudd’s. 😊
Oh god the australians are blessed with wild horses, wild kangaroos, wild bulls, and so much tasty rabbits 😁
Australia is a heaven for hunters and meat lovers
Gun laws are hard on Australians.🤓
Too bad guns are forbidden...
Dont forget,huge croc,s.
Terrible indeed.
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.
The European way lol
"how do you cull invasive species"
"car"
We do the same here, but more dirt roads due to the scale.
Ya U.K were you allow invasive cats to roam free, legally
We humans are in millions as well, imagine another species starts culling us.
*billions
We humans destroy everything even down to ourselves.
Around 7.6 billion.
We are on top of the chain. We only kill each other...
In Sichuan China, they consume 20 million rabbit a day
English man: Let's have some rabbits with us in Australia for a nice hunt..
Rabbits : He said hunt? Let's give him something to hunt!
Australia: waging war against animals since the early 20th century.
Australians: Yes we got rid of all the rabbits!!!
Mice: Haahhahahahahahhahahah
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "multiply like rabbits."
Wish there were more rabbits about...none here in central west...i miss my feed😥😥
Paul G the destructive to Australia’s ecosystem. If you want one get one as a pet
Which pest is worst, bunys or European colonizers from 18th century?
Morons like you
@Heir apparent Australia is the only continent thats comparable to a non developed country.
Definitely colonizers.
Well Europeans make the nations they colonise some of the wealthiest, safest and most advanced nations on the planet.
So enough of the white guilt crap.
@A W Java didn't help humanity at all. Human food comes from either palm or coconut as CPO or CCO. Javanese products are in your blood and your brain. Even humanity won't have smartphone if java island sunk to The seas
Okay but why did she sound so gleeful when she said "...& we've infected them with deadly viruses"
Cuz this is the World 🤢
@@HinduBoy ☹
*News in 2033:* "A new virus has sparked another pandemic, likely from rabbit consumption in Australia."
@@lajoyalobos2009 I know right. We'll get this video as a suggestion again from RUclips by then.
Just swap rabbits for humans...they always have a virus ready and waiting
Invasive ? They were brought there by humans in the first place. It’s humans that are the invasive species :)
And? Both are invasive.
Its how the most dangerous animals are in Australia but their biggest problem is rabbits
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
Rediculous shows you how tied up Australia is by the 0.001% who wish to profit from everything...........
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
Now lets do this with feral cats.
Why aren’t they cheap to buy as they make great eating! I have tried to buy for eating but they are so expensive?
As a agriculture person can understand the pain of crop loss. But as well as human so sad
Physical barriers and specialized fences are the only solution. Poisons always make their way back to the human food chain.
Any wild animal can dig making physical barriers useless.
Why not introduce a predator?
This video explained how the rabbits are destryoing the native envrionment and costing millions in damages and people are still to stupid to understand why they need to go
Free food (rabbit) is blessing, not a problem. It can even be exported.
You can have some Coyotes from Alberta Canada if you want.
I'll come shoot every one I see.
They are experiencing a mouse plague currently 😜
What could go wrong 😂
@@lucindawaugh3945 we'll send foxes too then.
@@ralphvelthuis2359 They only have yellow and brown foxes in Canada, not REAL foxes that are red so a trade could be good. The coyotes can mate with the dingoes and become a Dingote
Wow so much food in Australia
I still remember I was shocked to see a very good sized bunny at wildlife park. That time I felt "Emm, everything is huge in Australia. "
U sure u saw a r rabbit? Bcoz Australia has lot of other things tht r huge😂
@@wallerstc hhhh, even red ants 🐜 shocked me as well.
@@ylpeacelove what else u saw tht were huge?🤣
@@wallerstc Nothing's small in Straya.
Install Barn Owl nest boxes. Have High School students in Wood Shop Class make them as a project. Barn Owls rely on nesting cavities to rear their chicks. Barns Owls have a large dietary overlap with pit vipers as they eat a lot of rodents and rabbits.