Dingoes are the biggest hunters of rabbits as well as feral goats and will kill any fox or cat that invades their territory. Problem is that we've killed most of our native dingoes so sheep farmers can make greater profits.
Hogs? I assume you mean pigs. Pigs pretty quickly learn how to avoid being croc lunch. The thing is, unless entire litters are taken along with breeding adults, the population will not decrease. In most places they already breed more than can be supported so a large proportion of each litter dies before maturity. Unless control measures exceed that over-breeding any decrease in numbers is almost immediately replaced and achieves nothing.
@@itsamindgame9198 no he actually meant hogs (invasive wild boars, feral pigs are still a thing tho), those buggers destroy native plants by either uprooting them or sharpening their tusk onto the trunks of the plants, slowly killing them. sure they can learn how to avoid crocs. but at the end of the day they still need need to drink and they can only do so much when they need to go find a water source to drink from. where most crocs usually stay in because they know prey needs to drink and can ambush them pretty easily
@@DRskeleton654 You guys SHOULD CHECK OUT the Boar Buster traps that can trap up 35--45 Hogs/Pigs in One drop. A lot of places in the Southern states;ESPECIALLY Texas use them.
As a Moroccan, we have many problems in our native ecosystems that is day after day in suffering (Morcco is a biodiversity hotspot, espetially in the Mediterranean Basin ). I wish if you could cover topics about Morocco and other countries that aren't covered that much . (Excuse me for my English)
No, the rabbits in Australia did not all come from 13 individuals. There was "society" (club) that actively worked to introduce as many European species of fauna and flora as they could. Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits (not 13) in 1859, but by then rabbits were already common, and on Tasmania had long reached plague numbers.
The Australian Acclimatisation Society was releasing European animals into our forests from the late 1850s onwards... First in Victoria but soon all states had them, later not restricting it to European animals only.
I may be late, but you should’ve added the red fox and the wedge-tailed eagle. These Australian eagles are basically the only Australian super predators that will be more than happy to prey on the invasive red fox. The eagles also compete with the red fox for the same prey, which may affect the fox population negatively. So they’re *REALLY* important to preserve in the Australian ecosystem. They’re basically the golden eagles of Australia (golden eagles eat red foxes in the fox’s native range). Edit: I’m you’re new sub. That’s why I’m late to this amazing video. I love studying animals and wildlife as well :)
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Where i live in regional NSW, Small little town called kandos, there is a place called dunns swamp aboriginal name (ganguddy) you see quolls, possums and goannas all the time, I remember about 10-12 years ago i was out there camping with a few friends when one of the curious little fellas came up to our campfire in the middle of the night to see what was going on he/she just milled around the camp completely unaffected by our presence it was such a surreal sight to see one of these guys up close they truly are amazing animals and look even cooler in person up close, random story just thought i'd share
Of those species the water buffalo seems like one that could easily be dealt with. After all a buffalo can't exactly hide and you can feed allot of people at the same time.
@@awf6554 In the US, there used to be millions of buffalo. The US wiped them out if a few decades. You could shoot them from horse or train and keep going. There was often not attempt to even collect the kill. Put enough incentives out there, and they can be culled. I wonder if these buffalo are tasty.
Yeah. by numbers it seems like an easy amount to handle, but they do inhabit one of the most remote places in the world, even by Australian standards, and it is a hell of a lot of area to cover too. You are talking about hunting 150,000 animals, regardless of size, in an area probably a little smaller than the State of California.
In Tasmania there are very few evasive Foxes. The reason is that the native Tasmanian Devil finds baby Foxes delicious so what few Foxes can get from the mainland can't breed.
Saltwater crocodiles can grow up to 9 metres in length, not 6.3 metres. The only reasons why we don't see any grow past the latter length is because A: none of the current crocs are old enough to reach that size and B: They are either relocated to a crocodile farm or killed by rangers if they get too big. Salties can live up to a 200 years, and until they became a protected species in the 1970s they and freshwater crocodiles were almost wiped out by excessive hunting. As far as the Auzzie authorities are aware all the 9-metre long crocs were killed off over 50 years ago, but there is speculation that there might be a survivors that have avoided contact with humans by hiding in some of the most remote and isolated river systems in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland. However, it is estimated that the wild population of salties is over 50,000 and there have been reports of salties being sighted as far south as Sydney, which makes sense considering they used to inhabit the area before Europeans arrived.
@@Is_This_Really_Necessary hate to be that guy but do you have a source for that. I just find it hard to believe that the climate in Sydney was so drastically different in the early days of colonisation. Its possible that 1000's of years ago they might have, but when nights in winter are regularly below 5 degrees it would be impossible for reptiles the size of crocodiles to survive
You do not get it. The evolution of life on earth is about invasive species. Only in the late Pleistocene/Holocene, there was an invasion of species (humans included) from Asia to North America, from Asia to Australia (the same) and not so long before that from North America to South America. And mind, those were hard times for local animal populations of all kinds. Not to speak about the coming of Polynesians to the isles and Maoris to New Zealand.
One species which is probably the most over looked is the larger monitor lizards in Australia which grow to be some of the largest in the world and have control of rabbit, feral cat and fox populations.
I still don't understand your continued message of not 'villainizing' invasive species. If they are causing only a negative impact to the ecosystems where they are inserted, then there is no reason to be positive about them. We can easily separate them in their native habitat vs them in their introduced habitat.
Feral rabbits in Australia ate every blade of grass and other vegetation in the landscape and turned it into a dustbowl desert. Australia naturally has deserts but these deserts were clearly expanded by the environmental destruction wrought by the rabbit. Prime farming land in Australia was ruined by the rabbit, to the extent that some farmers were forced out of business. The farmers tried everything, shooting, trapping, poison baits, and even blowing up rabbit burrows with high explosives, all to no avail. Myxomatosis was the first biological control agent that worked. When myxomatosis was released sometime in the 1950s it wiped out the rabbit almost overnight, and the Australian ecosystem dramatically visibly improved. By the 1990s the rabbit had started developing immunity to myxomatosis, so the calicivirus was released to keep the rabbit down. There is now evidence that the rabbit is developing immunity to calicivirus too, so we Australians better get our act together and develop another rabbit control agent pretty soon.
I want to hear about "ancient" invasive species. like, species that were introduced by humans when they began spreading out. like the dingos or singing dogs
I'm in my mid 50's now, and I've seen a photo of my class mate grand parents' wedding feast, which had a baked whole Murray cod. The length was over 6 feet.
Would like to see a video on Australian native species that have been become pests elsewhere. From possums and wallabies in New Zealand, redback spiders in Japan, black swans in Europe, and so on.
Australia needs to make illegal to keep Murray Cod over 20 pounds and require them 3be released b back into the water. When that big they start eating carp over 5 ppounds!
Nice video. Even though the native species van feed on them, a fast growing invasive species can result in a fast growing number of predator species as well. But, they not only feed on the invasive species, so they might pose an even bigger pressure on the native prey population as well.
Dingoes deserve a shout out, as not only can they control rabbits, cats and foxes but have been seen hunting large mammalian invaders as well such a hogs, camels and even water buffalo. However their success is hampered by the famous dingo fence as well as a lack of tolerance by Australians.
The poor animal has two names now depending on the circumstances. They're Dingoes when they want to promote them or Australia and call them wild dogs when they're being anything else. The fences official name now is the Wild Dog Fence, at least in NSW anyway.
Dingos do not control fox and cat populations... that's a huge lie spread by the pro dingo lobby... I have been trapping and killing dingos for years... I regularly get foxes and cats moving through camera traps within 5 minutes of a dog passing... The dingo is a feral pest.
Another predator that preys on rabbits are the Monitor lizards or Goannas. And speaking of Goanna, maybe they should introduce a certain large species of Goanna named after a certain Indonesian island to Australia to deal with a certain humped mammal from the Middle East. It may sound like putting gasoline on a fire by introducing Komodo Dragons to a continent that's already having trouble with invasive species, but I read somewhere that Komodo Dragons used to inhabit Australia along with their larger prehistoric cousin Megalania. And camels have no experinece with Komodo Dragons which have experience hunting large mammals.
And what about a dingo? From what I have read it came to Australia with Aborigines only about 30 000 years ago and was possibly one of the factors that devastated the megafauna there.
Wow this channel is great! I love that you added that it's not the individual animals "fault". Some people might use them being invasive as an excuse for thier morbid desires. How about adding diffrent methods that might help out? Like judas goats and what not. Maybe also what viewers can do to make a difference. Like contacting politicians and where to join conservation efforts (or eradication efforts).
Reintroducing the Devil to the mainland might help a bit. And leaving dingoes alone. They'd both be a problem for feral cats. Also trying to re-introduce quoll species - hope that all goes well.
@@aurochsxx5932 Well, there are proof of Nile crocodiles killing and eating a grown hippo. Nile Crocks are much smaller than Salties, and Hippos are much bigger than Water Buffalo. Add to that, Salties are more aggressive than Nile Crocs, and you can bet your ass that Salties can take on a measly Buffalo.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 this and one other time ive seen it Salties have doubts over attacking water buffaloes.. ..nile crocs though small are habituated to killing larger mammals and they are accustoned to work as a group unit so its likely salties rather kill fishes, other small croc species, kangaroos and water birds ruclips.net/video/m__ECOcaCTw/видео.html
Thanks from a wildlife lover in Australia, I actually care for 2 pure desert dingoes, sadly we lost our 3rd princess Sandy Maliki to a black snake bite. We have a battle here where our apex predator the dingo is universally treated by government as a pest. The reality is it could easily help bring back a balance in the bush by eradicating rabbits, cats, pig and fox. The problem is dingoes can interbreed with domestic dogs. It is this interbreeding that leads to 'wild dogs and packs'. Dingoes need protection and reintroduction. I know it can be done but we need support from the government. The dingo is UNIQUE, I know I have raised and cared for 3. Sandy's genome is being studied and its now accepted that dingoes are a unique species internationally. Anyway good balanced commentary.
The 1800's: My Brain 🧠 Perceives this era as this time of "MASS over hunting." Look at the pictures of those Murray cod, the American bison 🦬, the Beaver 🦫, mink farms, the tasmanian tiger, wolf/bear/cougar, mass rabbit hunting) *I'm not against hunting. I just wish we could have found a sort of balance point instead of these cases where we hunted animals in the past to near extinction or actually to extinction. Like the Dodo 🦤 bird and Seal's... Whale's... This was tough times where survival was difficult but I wish we could have seen just how much we need animals. We can't get rid of all of them and not let their populations rebound.
prob but great whites almsot never attack salt water crocs great whites are specialised to attack mammals not reptiles so def when a Grerat white can choose between a Seal/sealion and a Croc they got for the seal/sealion
well, in most cases it would be the other way around. The croc would eat the Great White. But yes if you are talking about a record Great White of over 2000kg, then they could take on most Salties. But there is not many of those, if there is at all after the way Great Whites were hunted into rarity in the past. It takes time to get to those sizes. Same goes for Crocs to, they used to get a good deal bigger than they are nowadays.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 the croc wouldn't even know what's coming the shark would strike from under as usual and severely damage if not kill the croc because it would hit the croc in it's bell that's soft but if the croc knew what was coming than the fight could go ether way
The introduced species that poses the greatest threat to Australian biodiversity is Lantana. Wildfire is only a problem in Australia because "environmentalists" insisted on stopping traditional indigenous burns, which were done over small areas during cold weather. The same happened in North America, and in both cases, traditional burning practices are being "rediscovered" as a way of preventing uncontrolled fires. Australian native plants are adapted to the traditional burning patterns and grow back very well after fires, but are damaged by more intense wildfires. Imported plants tend to handle infrequent wildfires well but don't cope with more frequent traditional fires.
With Australia’s great success, may I suggest a few ideas to control rabbits? First, looks like ya’ll need a few wolves. They are so beautiful and absolutely love those rabbits. Maybe some cats? Panthers are wonderful? A few lions? Some tigers to replace those from Tasmania?
Ranchers got upset about the last big water buffalo and camel culls because they have developed markets and can sell all the water buffalo and camels they can round up. Markets are being developed for venison too.
Camels are an invasive species as well. Similar problems to farmers as the Water Buffalo. There are reportedly more feral camels in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
So, then why don't humans eat the buffalo and carp (along with the feral dromedaries, horses and donkeys). Instead of ridiculously trying to raise cattle and sheep in the hot, dry outback, a place where they ecologically don't belong.
Australians do eat buffalo (especially in the North), though the infrastructure where they live, just as with camels and donkeys, is inadequate for processing and distribution on a large scale, given the inaccessibility and/or enormous range of the places they inhabit. It's just not cost-effective or profitable enough to warrant the necessary investment without a much larger, sustainable market. Carp are are used on a large scale for fertiliser production but again, limited infrastructure for transport, processing and distribution means low profit-margins for this industry. There is no sustainable market for carp as food in Australia and international prices for their meat are too low to warrant catching them for export.
Foxes became a huge problem also in my country - Poland. Because they are intelligent, omnivorous, and cunning. Foxes can survive on only what people throw away or leave behind, so there are no natural limiters to the excessive growth of their population in the form of a lack of prey to hunt. And as a result of human activity (the elimination of wolves and the lack of hunting), they had no enemies. They multiplied beyond measure and began to threaten the populations of other species of small birds and mammals. Paradoxically, predatory wolves, foxes' natural enemies, contributed to the revival of the population of hares and partridges, because they returned to their former hunting grounds and quickly eliminated the competition. That is foxes. I mean, they've reduced their population to a manageable size.
I love how "invasive species" are dirty words. Newcomers are evil but long-term residents are virtuous. Species are constantly on the move and every species was "invasive" at some point in the past.
Here in Oz you can own any number of cats and dogs (which are a huge feral problem in their own right), but you can't own most native animals, such as a quoll. In the USA you can buy a pet kangaroo or quoll, but in Oz you'd be fined and have the animal confiscated.
Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear Making the tears rain down like a monsoon Listen to the bass go boom Explosions, overpowering Over the competition, I'm towering
Another invasive species and native predator pairing that was missed mainly because of the Australian focus is the reticulated python, native to Indonesia and present in the Florida Everglades, but is preyed upon by the native American alligator, which holds the saltwater crocodile's apex predator niche in the everglades echo system.
@Xombi Xombi True, but that's only if the python is bigger. I heard about a case where a snake had eaten a 5-footer, only to have a fifteen-footer show up and partially eat it back during the following food coma.
G'day Mate Nice Video. Australia has one more invasive species - The Camel. These have multiplied to astonishing numbers in the cast arid area of Central Australia. Maybe you like to make a video on this and how their numbers bring controlled, bring a large animal. Thanks
Interesting story behind the camel, we all knew they were imported to open up the interior of the country and specifically for Bourke and Wills expedition. However, they were considering elephants at one point. Kind of glad they went with camels, could you imagine how bad a feral elephant population would be.
hi, can u explain to me why Australians consider the dingo to be invasive even thou every website i look up classifies them ether as endemic or native to Australia? cuss seems to me like most of australia's invasive species problems could be resolve by just letting dingoes do their thing.
because of feral dogs are the main issue and cross breed with the pure dingos. doesn't help they damage our livestock industry which cause 100 of millions worth of damages not many pure breeds dingos left the the government has declared that they are pest as it's easier than to check every feral dog on the land
The dingo isn't classed as an 'invasive species', though it is thought to have been on the continent les than 5,000 years. Dingo hybrids with domestic dogs are though and it's these hybrids and feral dogs which cause most problems for farmers around national parks and reserves in rural communities. Many of the areas the dingo used to inhabit are no longer suitable habitat for them, particularly the regions where farming and cultivation is prevalent along the East and South coasts and where feral dogs are subject to control measures. Feral dogs and hybrids can breed twice a year, while dingoes only breed once a year so in areas where food is abundant, feral dogs can out-compete the pure dingoes over time.
Dingoes were brought to Australia by the Aboriginals , not Europeans so depends how far back you want to go to be considered ‘native’. First humans were thought to arrive around 40,000 years ago are they native ? Kookaburras , native to Eastern Australian have been introduced to South West Australia were they are considered invasive.
Dingoes are considered a pest because they kill livestock and were doing so long before they started crossbreeding with domestic dogs. That's why they have been persecuted by the European invaders for two centuries.
Ironic, as at 2:03 narrator says "As with most Invasive Species" the British Union Jack is raised for the first time on what becomes known as Australia.
your about 10ft out on the size of the salt water crocodile, John Bredel has a 21ft croc at Bloomsbury called Solomon and in the museum, There is a pic of the one that killed the 2 little girls in the 1930's at Calen that one was over 30ft long
How far back do you go to determine 'native species'? Australia was once connected to other lands, do you go back that far? Do you include humans in that invasive species list? As for the rabbit, their numbers were already in decline before myxamotosis was introduced, if you look into the scientist that introduced it you will find he later ignored the data and kept pushing his program, I think because he had already built a career out of trying to eradicate them There has only been one study into the positive effects of rabbits and that was done in the US and they found that rabbits are of benefit in hilltops because they keep small plants at bay whilst allowing the larger shrubs to grow and not be outcompeted which increases the stability of the hills The whole notion that we need to somehow wind the clock back to a point in time and say at point XYZ in history is what makes up a native species to me is flawed, as I said before, how far back do you go? Why not back to when the land masses were joined? Until studies are also done on the positives of an introduced species then we are really only looking at one aspect and what about humans, why should humans get a free pass?
The audax eagle, the montor argus lizard and the Australian python together cannot control the introduced species such as the rabbit, the free, the fox and the feral cats...?
The video fails to mention cats. Cats are the major predator for native species including birds. Since their introduction by Europeans and Asians they have completely decimated native species and ecosystems.
I think reintroducing the Komodo dragon into northern Australia would help control invasive species like deer, wild boar and buffalo since its proven that it actually evolved and lived in Australia thousands of years ago.Australia lacks an Apex predator on land.
Hmm, I live along the Murray River, in a town called Finley. I was driving along the Newell highway in Tocumwal, which is a town right on the Murray River a few years back and out of the grass crawled a giant lace monitor. Now it's nose was over the centre line of the highway while the end of its tail was in the gravel on the shoulder of the road- that's over 2 meters in length. 👉 That horrific creature could easily take down wallabies and any other critter smaller than itself for that matter... I realized upon seeing it that there's no way I'd ever let a bub play in the yard without watching the child now, as I reckon it would easily devour children up to 80cm in height. 💣 You can say there's no apex predators on land here but hmm, that thing was bloody huge- if I had have run it over, it would have taken out my citroen van's suspension and smashed the front end up as well.
Australia's marsupials are so diverse. Pokemon definitely has to make a new generation with Australia as its region.
It would be amazing!
I’m working on a project with a region based on Australia and Antarctica!
@@ProsauropodPropagandist always wanted a bearded dragon Pokémon as I own one! They are from Australia! Would be really cool
wallaby, wallaroo and kangaroo already sounds like a three stage evolution
I think a quoll Pokémon would be really cool
@@catco123 I want a opossum/possum pokemon so badly. We have a skunk and raccoon.
The native wedge-tailed eagle also hunts rabbits.
And they'll even pick off the occasional fox; especially in the early Summer when young foxes are starting to explore away from their dens.
@@anserbauer309 ive heard wedgies will even pick off Feral cats if they can catch a young one
@@unstoppableExodia I'm sure they do. If they're prepared to tackle a kangaroo, I doubt a feral cat would be a problem for them!
Dingoes are the biggest hunters of rabbits as well as feral goats and will kill any fox or cat that invades their territory. Problem is that we've killed most of our native dingoes so sheep farmers can make greater profits.
@@fasteddie9201 government sneakily calling them “wild dogs” is the most infuriating thing of all time tbh
Shoutout to the keelback, a species of non-venomous snake that can feed on cane toads
And the humble bin-chicken which are known to eat them too!
Crows have also figured out how to eat them. They toss them on there backs & eat their non poisionous underside.
The Keelback is a Colubrid, mildly venomous
The Australian keelback (Tropidonophis mairii) definitely is a colubrid but isn't venomous.
Saltwater crocs also help control feral hogs. Hell, saltwater croc populations have increased in certain regions, due to the high abundance of hogs.
Honestly, the crocs aren't doing much 😂
Hogs? I assume you mean pigs. Pigs pretty quickly learn how to avoid being croc lunch. The thing is, unless entire litters are taken along with breeding adults, the population will not decrease. In most places they already breed more than can be supported so a large proportion of each litter dies before maturity. Unless control measures exceed that over-breeding any decrease in numbers is almost immediately replaced and achieves nothing.
@@itsamindgame9198 no he actually meant hogs (invasive wild boars, feral pigs are still a thing tho), those buggers destroy native plants by either uprooting them or sharpening their tusk onto the trunks of the plants, slowly killing them. sure they can learn how to avoid crocs. but at the end of the day they still need need to drink and they can only do so much when they need to go find a water source to drink from. where most crocs usually stay in because they know prey needs to drink and can ambush them pretty easily
Due to it being illegal to kill crocs !!! Crocs also feed on buffalo, but that has little to no effect on buffalo numbers.
@@DRskeleton654 You guys SHOULD CHECK OUT the Boar Buster traps that can trap up 35--45 Hogs/Pigs in One drop. A lot of places in the Southern states;ESPECIALLY Texas use them.
As a Moroccan, we have many problems in our native ecosystems that is day after day in suffering (Morcco is a biodiversity hotspot, espetially in the Mediterranean Basin ). I wish if you could cover topics about Morocco and other countries that aren't covered that much .
(Excuse me for my English)
You did an amazing job! English is a tough language and I’m not gonna be the grammar police
Can you give more of an insight on what type of animals are in morocco?
Morocco is a haven of the African wolf, one of my favourite animals!
@@samrizzardi2213 i think what you are talking about is the african golden wolf. Since the only other wolf species in africa is the ethiopian wolf.
@@danielbogdanoski4412 Of course I am!
No, the rabbits in Australia did not all come from 13 individuals. There was "society" (club) that actively worked to introduce as many European species of fauna and flora as they could. Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits (not 13) in 1859, but by then rabbits were already common, and on Tasmania had long reached plague numbers.
British obsessed with rabbit hunting, still do it.
They also released monkeys, zebra, etc even a giraffe or two.
Nice little history lesson!
why would you even want to introduce rabbits of all the animals
The Australian Acclimatisation Society was releasing European animals into our forests from the late 1850s onwards... First in Victoria but soon all states had them, later not restricting it to European animals only.
I may be late, but you should’ve added the red fox and the wedge-tailed eagle. These Australian eagles are basically the only Australian super predators that will be more than happy to prey on the invasive red fox. The eagles also compete with the red fox for the same prey, which may affect the fox population negatively. So they’re *REALLY* important to preserve in the Australian ecosystem. They’re basically the golden eagles of Australia (golden eagles eat red foxes in the fox’s native range).
Edit: I’m you’re new sub. That’s why I’m late to this amazing video. I love studying animals and wildlife as well :)
In Germany we say „die vermehren sich wie die Karnickel!“ - which means „they multiply like rabbits“ when something spreads really really fast xD
yeah we have a similar saying in the UK but with more profanities haha
@@TsukiCove
We use Catholics in place of rabbits .
btw I was Catholic and we used it too .
I think that one may be a global saying. It is used in English, and Norwegian to. And probably a lot of other languages.
Same in America. Breed like rabbits.
In England we say "they breed like Catholic Rabbits" 🤣
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Whoever operated it, you're doing a phenomenal job and I commend you for it.
I also wish you luck and hope you continue these videos for years to come.
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Where i live in regional NSW, Small little town called kandos, there is a place called dunns swamp aboriginal name (ganguddy) you see quolls, possums and goannas all the time, I remember about 10-12 years ago i was out there camping with a few friends when one of the curious little fellas came up to our campfire in the middle of the night to see what was going on he/she just milled around the camp completely unaffected by our presence it was such a surreal sight to see one of these guys up close they truly are amazing animals and look even cooler in person up close, random story just thought i'd share
It is the same with hedgehogs in the Central Europeans forests.
The white ibis in Australia learnt to eat the invasive Cane toads with getting poisoned or killed
Of those species the water buffalo seems like one that could easily be dealt with. After all a buffalo can't exactly hide and you can feed allot of people at the same time.
The problem is the great expanse of bush available to them.
@@awf6554 What about hunting from Helicopters?
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 It's done, but they're too established over too large to be wiped out.
@@awf6554 In the US, there used to be millions of buffalo. The US wiped them out if a few decades. You could shoot them from horse or train and keep going. There was often not attempt to even collect the kill.
Put enough incentives out there, and they can be culled. I wonder if these buffalo are tasty.
Yeah. by numbers it seems like an easy amount to handle, but they do inhabit one of the most remote places in the world, even by Australian standards, and it is a hell of a lot of area to cover too.
You are talking about hunting 150,000 animals, regardless of size, in an area probably a little smaller than the State of California.
The Northern Quolls are facinating. Numbats, tasmanian giant crayfish, giant Murray cod. All awesome.
In Tasmania there are very few evasive Foxes. The reason is that the native Tasmanian Devil finds baby Foxes delicious so what few Foxes can get from the mainland can't breed.
Saltwater crocodiles can grow up to 9 metres in length, not 6.3 metres. The only reasons why we don't see any grow past the latter length is because A: none of the current crocs are old enough to reach that size and B: They are either relocated to a crocodile farm or killed by rangers if they get too big.
Salties can live up to a 200 years, and until they became a protected species in the 1970s they and freshwater crocodiles were almost wiped out by excessive hunting. As far as the Auzzie authorities are aware all the 9-metre long crocs were killed off over 50 years ago, but there is speculation that there might be a survivors that have avoided contact with humans by hiding in some of the most remote and isolated river systems in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
However, it is estimated that the wild population of salties is over 50,000 and there have been reports of salties being sighted as far south as Sydney, which makes sense considering they used to inhabit the area before Europeans arrived.
Crocodiles never inhabited areas as far south as Sydney. Its too cold during winter to for such a large reptile to survive
@@oliverabraham6593Pre-Colonial era and early days of colonisation of Australia they did.
@@Is_This_Really_Necessary hate to be that guy but do you have a source for that. I just find it hard to believe that the climate in Sydney was so drastically different in the early days of colonisation. Its possible that 1000's of years ago they might have, but when nights in winter are regularly below 5 degrees it would be impossible for reptiles the size of crocodiles to survive
Wow these predators are doing pretty well. We need to conserve their habitats for their future. ❤
You do not get it. The evolution of life on earth is about invasive species. Only in the late Pleistocene/Holocene, there was an invasion of species (humans included) from Asia to North America, from Asia to Australia (the same) and not so long before that from North America to South America. And mind, those were hard times for local animal populations of all kinds. Not to speak about the coming of Polynesians to the isles and Maoris to New Zealand.
Dingoes will hunt feral pigs, goats, deer, foxes, and feral cats.
One species which is probably the most over looked is the larger monitor lizards in Australia which grow to be some of the largest in the world and have control of rabbit, feral cat and fox populations.
The cane toad has a new predator in the form of the bin chicken.
Another invasive species we have in Australia are horses, goats feral pigs, rats and mice oh and deer. Maybe a video on some of these
im amazed we have like five species of deer hell there has been sightings of a black buck (type of antelope )
@@Czesin fair dinkum
Salties are thriving on feral pigs in NT.
@@jackvos8047 obviously they have good taste
Yeah. In Victoria deer are classed as wildlife, because years ago a Premier was a hunter and wanted to conserve them. Now they're as massive problem.
We should reintroduce the european rabbit to Iberian pensuila
Tsuki, you have done really well again. Thanks.
I still don't understand your continued message of not 'villainizing' invasive species. If they are causing only a negative impact to the ecosystems where they are inserted, then there is no reason to be positive about them. We can easily separate them in their native habitat vs them in their introduced habitat.
Agreed.
The saltwater crocodile is also known to LOVE feral pigs :D
You could of mentioned the Wedge tail Eagle, which hunts rabbits.
"Could have" NOT "could of"
Feral rabbits in Australia ate every blade of grass and other vegetation in the landscape and turned it into a dustbowl desert. Australia naturally has deserts but these deserts were clearly expanded by the environmental destruction wrought by the rabbit. Prime farming land in Australia was ruined by the rabbit, to the extent that some farmers were forced out of business. The farmers tried everything, shooting, trapping, poison baits, and even blowing up rabbit burrows with high explosives, all to no avail. Myxomatosis was the first biological control agent that worked. When myxomatosis was released sometime in the 1950s it wiped out the rabbit almost overnight, and the Australian ecosystem dramatically visibly improved. By the 1990s the rabbit had started developing immunity to myxomatosis, so the calicivirus was released to keep the rabbit down. There is now evidence that the rabbit is developing immunity to calicivirus too, so we Australians better get our act together and develop another rabbit control agent pretty soon.
You never mentioned the pure evil of the feral CAT.
You could do a whole video on Australian crocodiles and invasive species.
Well to be fair real wild water buffalo are also highly endangered (this in sharp contrast to the domesticated water buffalo of course)
Another example is the Goanna and invasive stray cats, Goanna do a decent job at killing them.
The crocodiles were able to recover & then some .
Any hooved animal is an introduced species , feral / wild goats , pigs , camels
Horses, cows, sheep too
@@stultuses yep , I was keeping to ferals.... but I horses fit that category aswell .
I want to hear about "ancient" invasive species. like, species that were introduced by humans when they began spreading out. like the dingos or singing dogs
Or dholes in Sumatra
This would be a very interesting video
Dingoes have been in Australia long enough and their presence filling a vacant role in the ecosystem means they don't qualify as an invasive species.
People have been in Australia for over 50,000 years. Dingos for around 6,000.
Start with humans…
Thank you for a very good video!
I'm in my mid 50's now, and I've seen a photo of my class mate grand parents' wedding feast, which had a baked whole Murray cod. The length was over 6 feet.
Would like to see a video on Australian native species that have been become pests elsewhere. From possums and wallabies in New Zealand, redback spiders in Japan, black swans in Europe, and so on.
I'd like this too
The water Buffalo seem like an easy species to control with human hunting. 150000 seems like the entire invasive population could be exterminated.
Australia needs to make illegal to keep Murray Cod over 20 pounds and require them 3be released b back into the water. When that big they start eating carp over 5 ppounds!
Nice video. Even though the native species van feed on them, a fast growing invasive species can result in a fast growing number of predator species as well. But, they not only feed on the invasive species, so they might pose an even bigger pressure on the native prey population as well.
Dingoes deserve a shout out, as not only can they control rabbits, cats and foxes but have been seen hunting large mammalian invaders as well such a hogs, camels and even water buffalo. However their success is hampered by the famous dingo fence as well as a lack of tolerance by Australians.
The poor animal has two names now depending on the circumstances. They're Dingoes when they want to promote them or Australia and call them wild dogs when they're being anything else. The fences official name now is the Wild Dog Fence, at least in NSW anyway.
Dingos do not control fox and cat populations... that's a huge lie spread by the pro dingo lobby...
I have been trapping and killing dingos for years... I regularly get foxes and cats moving through camera traps within 5 minutes of a dog passing...
The dingo is a feral pest.
There are no records of dingoes hunting large introduced animals such as adult wild boar, brumbies, goats, deer, camels, buffalo, and only kangaroos.
Uncontrolled Domestic cats are an absolute horror for native birds and animals.
Feral cats are a Huge problem in Australia as well along side the feral dog
That is one of the coolest thumbnails I've ever seen.
Another predator that preys on rabbits are the Monitor lizards or Goannas. And speaking of Goanna, maybe they should introduce a certain large species of Goanna named after a certain Indonesian island to Australia to deal with a certain humped mammal from the Middle East. It may sound like putting gasoline on a fire by introducing Komodo Dragons to a continent that's already having trouble with invasive species, but I read somewhere that Komodo Dragons used to inhabit Australia along with their larger prehistoric cousin Megalania. And camels have no experinece with Komodo Dragons which have experience hunting large mammals.
I have also been thinking about the reintroduction of komodo dragons to Australia
And what about a dingo? From what I have read it came to Australia with Aborigines only about 30 000 years ago and was possibly one of the factors that devastated the megafauna there.
Dingoes don't hunt large animals so the mega fauna theory makes no sense
Wow this channel is great!
I love that you added that it's not the individual animals "fault". Some people might use them being invasive as an excuse for thier morbid desires.
How about adding diffrent methods that might help out? Like judas goats and what not. Maybe also what viewers can do to make a difference. Like contacting politicians and where to join conservation efforts (or eradication efforts).
Request: 5 Native Africa Predators That Hunt And Control Invasive Species
Mr. Christian, protect the Breadfruit at all costs.
Great work. Good to hear something positive. Hi from Perth Australia 🙂
Reintroducing the Devil to the mainland might help a bit. And leaving dingoes alone. They'd both be a problem for feral cats. Also trying to re-introduce quoll species - hope that all goes well.
Thanks. ✌🏻👊
Water Buffalo: Excuse me, do you know the way to town?
Saltwater Croc: Yeah, its right back the way you came! * _shows razor sharp teeth_ *
The moment you said Water Buffalos, I instinctively knew only Salties and wild dogs could take on them.
And ive never seen footage of salties willing to take on the buffaloes
Not wild dogs. They are too small. Even if they hunt in packs.
@@aurochsxx5932 Well, there are proof of Nile crocodiles killing and eating a grown hippo. Nile Crocks are much smaller than Salties, and Hippos are much bigger than Water Buffalo. Add to that, Salties are more aggressive than Nile Crocs, and you can bet your ass that Salties can take on a measly Buffalo.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 this and one other time ive seen it Salties have doubts over attacking water buffaloes.. ..nile crocs though small are habituated to killing larger mammals and they are accustoned to work as a group unit so its likely salties rather kill fishes, other small croc species, kangaroos and water birds
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@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Dholes/Indian Wild Dogs hunt water buffalos.
Cats, Your ordinary house Cat gone feral.
Thanks from a wildlife lover in Australia, I actually care for 2 pure desert dingoes, sadly we lost our 3rd princess Sandy Maliki to a black snake bite. We have a battle here where our apex predator the dingo is universally treated by government as a pest. The reality is it could easily help bring back a balance in the bush by eradicating rabbits, cats, pig and fox. The problem is dingoes can interbreed with domestic dogs. It is this interbreeding that leads to 'wild dogs and packs'. Dingoes need protection and reintroduction. I know it can be done but we need support from the government. The dingo is UNIQUE, I know I have raised and cared for 3. Sandy's genome is being studied and its now accepted that dingoes are a unique species internationally. Anyway good balanced commentary.
The perenti also eats rabbits regularly
The 1800's: My Brain 🧠
Perceives this era as this time of "MASS over hunting." Look at the pictures of those Murray cod, the American bison 🦬, the Beaver 🦫, mink farms, the tasmanian tiger, wolf/bear/cougar, mass rabbit hunting)
*I'm not against hunting. I just wish we could have found a sort of balance point instead of these cases where we hunted animals in the past to near extinction or actually to extinction. Like the Dodo 🦤 bird and Seal's... Whale's... This was tough times where survival was difficult but I wish we could have seen just how much we need animals. We can't get rid of all of them and not let their populations rebound.
I know you do extant animals but maybe you can do some videos on extinct animals like extinct Australian predators stuff like that.
I wish you can make a video about invasive species becoming native species
he's done that a few times already
I think a big enough great white shark can kill a saltwater crocodile pretty easily
prob but great whites almsot never attack salt water crocs
great whites are specialised to attack mammals not reptiles
so def when a Grerat white can choose between a Seal/sealion and a Croc they got for the seal/sealion
well, in most cases it would be the other way around. The croc would eat the Great White. But yes if you are talking about a record Great White of over 2000kg, then they could take on most Salties. But there is not many of those, if there is at all after the way Great Whites were hunted into rarity in the past. It takes time to get to those sizes. Same goes for Crocs to, they used to get a good deal bigger than they are nowadays.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 the croc wouldn't even know what's coming the shark would strike from under as usual and severely damage if not kill the croc because it would hit the croc in it's bell that's soft but if the croc knew what was coming than the fight could go ether way
@@The_ragingJewZionist They have actually seen a Saltie kill and eat a Great White.
No it was a tiny bullshark lol
Invasive Species: We will rule the World!!!
Australia : And I took that personally.
The introduced species that poses the greatest threat to Australian biodiversity is Lantana.
Wildfire is only a problem in Australia because "environmentalists" insisted on stopping traditional indigenous burns, which were done over small areas during cold weather.
The same happened in North America, and in both cases, traditional burning practices are being "rediscovered" as a way of preventing uncontrolled fires.
Australian native plants are adapted to the traditional burning patterns and grow back very well after fires, but are damaged by more intense wildfires. Imported plants tend to handle infrequent wildfires well but don't cope with more frequent traditional fires.
Great video!
With Australia’s great success, may I suggest a few ideas to control rabbits? First, looks like ya’ll need a few wolves. They are so beautiful and absolutely love those rabbits. Maybe some cats? Panthers are wonderful? A few lions? Some tigers to replace those from Tasmania?
Introducing an invasive animal to control another invasive animal? What could go wrong?
Ranchers got upset about the last big water buffalo and camel culls because they have developed markets and can sell all the water buffalo and camels they can round up. Markets are being developed for venison too.
Camels are an invasive species as well. Similar problems to farmers as the Water Buffalo. There are reportedly more feral camels in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
Love the NWA shout out 😊
Crows and magpies have learned to eat around the poison glands of cane toads
carp are just water rabbits then, eat everything on the floor and breed alot
So, then why don't humans eat the buffalo and carp (along with the feral dromedaries, horses and donkeys). Instead of ridiculously trying to raise cattle and sheep in the hot, dry outback, a place where they ecologically don't belong.
Australians do eat buffalo (especially in the North), though the infrastructure where they live, just as with camels and donkeys, is inadequate for processing and distribution on a large scale, given the inaccessibility and/or enormous range of the places they inhabit. It's just not cost-effective or profitable enough to warrant the necessary investment without a much larger, sustainable market. Carp are are used on a large scale for fertiliser production but again, limited infrastructure for transport, processing and distribution means low profit-margins for this industry. There is no sustainable market for carp as food in Australia and international prices for their meat are too low to warrant catching them for export.
One thing that seems certain is that if you like to eat animals you would never starve in Australia.
Australian Ibis have learned to stress out cane toads and wash poison off to eat them now - other species learning
The austrailian rabbit problem sounds like dinnee for the entire country.
Don't forget the CAT!
Once he said, "fox", I lost my surprise that another invasive species was killing rabbits.
Foxes became a huge problem also in my country - Poland. Because they are intelligent, omnivorous, and cunning. Foxes can survive on only what people throw away or leave behind, so there are no natural limiters to the excessive growth of their population in the form of a lack of prey to hunt. And as a result of human activity (the elimination of wolves and the lack of hunting), they had no enemies. They multiplied beyond measure and began to threaten the populations of other species of small birds and mammals. Paradoxically, predatory wolves, foxes' natural enemies, contributed to the revival of the population of hares and partridges, because they returned to their former hunting grounds and quickly eliminated the competition. That is foxes. I mean, they've reduced their population to a manageable size.
"don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years, rocking my peers, putting suckers in fear!"
I love how "invasive species" are dirty words. Newcomers are evil but long-term residents are virtuous. Species are constantly on the move and every species was "invasive" at some point in the past.
Here in Oz you can own any number of cats and dogs (which are a huge feral problem in their own right), but you can't own most native animals, such as a quoll. In the USA you can buy a pet kangaroo or quoll, but in Oz you'd be fined and have the animal confiscated.
Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years
I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear
Making the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to the bass go boom
Explosions, overpowering
Over the competition, I'm towering
Next should be Europe or India
He already did it
@@FishingEngland oh ok,maybe India
Yeah India would be cool I'll see what i can do in the future :)
@@TsukiCove great! 👍
Another invasive species and native predator pairing that was missed mainly because of the Australian focus is the reticulated python, native to Indonesia and present in the Florida Everglades, but is preyed upon by the native American alligator, which holds the saltwater crocodile's apex predator niche in the everglades echo system.
The pythons in the everglades prey upon the crocs as well.
@Xombi Xombi True, but that's only if the python is bigger. I heard about a case where a snake had eaten a 5-footer, only to have a fifteen-footer show up and partially eat it back during the following food coma.
I love water buffalo
G'day Mate
Nice Video.
Australia has one more invasive species - The Camel.
These have multiplied to astonishing numbers in the cast arid area of Central Australia.
Maybe you like to make a video on this and how their numbers bring controlled, bring a large animal.
Thanks
Interesting story behind the camel, we all knew they were imported to open up the interior of the country and specifically for Bourke and Wills expedition. However, they were considering elephants at one point.
Kind of glad they went with camels, could you imagine how bad a feral elephant population would be.
Rabbit is a good eat
At this point there should a crocodile appreciation day for their service to the environment
Invasive species are not the problem. It is the human. Leave nature alone. She takes care of everything herself.
hi, can u explain to me why Australians consider the dingo to be invasive even thou every website i look up classifies them ether as endemic or native to Australia? cuss seems to me like most of australia's invasive species problems could be resolve by just letting dingoes do their thing.
because of feral dogs are the main issue and cross breed with the pure dingos. doesn't help they damage our livestock industry which cause 100 of millions worth of damages
not many pure breeds dingos left the the government has declared that they are pest as it's easier than to check every feral dog on the land
The dingo isn't classed as an 'invasive species', though it is thought to have been on the continent les than 5,000 years. Dingo hybrids with domestic dogs are though and it's these hybrids and feral dogs which cause most problems for farmers around national parks and reserves in rural communities.
Many of the areas the dingo used to inhabit are no longer suitable habitat for them, particularly the regions where farming and cultivation is prevalent along the East and South coasts and where feral dogs are subject to control measures. Feral dogs and hybrids can breed twice a year, while dingoes only breed once a year so in areas where food is abundant, feral dogs can out-compete the pure dingoes over time.
Not to mention thay take unwanted baby’s to 😂
Dingoes were brought to Australia by the Aboriginals , not Europeans so depends how far back you want to go to be considered ‘native’. First humans were thought to arrive around 40,000 years ago are they native ?
Kookaburras , native to Eastern Australian have been introduced to South West Australia were they are considered invasive.
Dingoes are considered a pest because they kill livestock and were doing so long before they started crossbreeding with domestic dogs. That's why they have been persecuted by the European invaders for two centuries.
200M Carp, 200M Rabbits ...I think someone's just making up figures lol
Ironic, as at 2:03 narrator says
"As with most Invasive Species" the British Union Jack is raised for the first time on what becomes known as Australia.
your about 10ft out on the size of the salt water crocodile, John Bredel has a 21ft croc at Bloomsbury called Solomon and in the museum, There is a pic of the one that killed the 2 little girls in the 1930's at Calen that one was over 30ft long
Largest crocodile Lolong 20.24ft long died February 10 2013 in captivity.
Water buffalo would be best handled by our army. A platoon of IFV's would make short work of any herd.
How far back do you go to determine 'native species'?
Australia was once connected to other lands, do you go back that far?
Do you include humans in that invasive species list?
As for the rabbit, their numbers were already in decline before myxamotosis was introduced, if you look into the scientist that introduced it you will find he later ignored the data and kept pushing his program, I think because he had already built a career out of trying to eradicate them
There has only been one study into the positive effects of rabbits and that was done in the US and they found that rabbits are of benefit in hilltops because they keep small plants at bay whilst allowing the larger shrubs to grow and not be outcompeted which increases the stability of the hills
The whole notion that we need to somehow wind the clock back to a point in time and say at point XYZ in history is what makes up a native species to me is flawed, as I said before, how far back do you go? Why not back to when the land masses were joined?
Until studies are also done on the positives of an introduced species then we are really only looking at one aspect and what about humans, why should humans get a free pass?
The audax eagle, the montor argus lizard and the Australian python together cannot control the introduced species such as the rabbit, the free, the fox and the feral cats...?
Always carping about something!
It's crazy people don't just use grenades for big game when they are social animals like buff. That can clear like 9 of them when 6 are grazing.
Eastern spotted quals are brilliant even thou while living in Tasmania one killed all my chickens I couldn't get it as it was fast and clever
If the populace wasn't disarmed and dominated, hunting all invasives should be allowed, unlimited. It's not everything, but it could be significant.
The video fails to mention cats. Cats are the major predator for native species including birds. Since their introduction by Europeans and Asians they have completely decimated native species and ecosystems.
Might be a stupid question but how does 13 rabbit's left to breeding make that many rabbits without their gene pool being effected ?
He is wrong in his statement about 13 rabbits being the starting point.
I think reintroducing the Komodo dragon into northern Australia would help control invasive species like deer, wild boar and buffalo since its proven that it actually evolved and lived in Australia thousands of years ago.Australia lacks an Apex predator on land.
Hmm, I live along the Murray River, in a town called Finley. I was driving along the Newell highway in Tocumwal, which is a town right on the Murray River a few years back and out of the grass crawled a giant lace monitor. Now it's nose was over the centre line of the highway while the end of its tail was in the gravel on the shoulder of the road- that's over 2 meters in length. 👉 That horrific creature could easily take down wallabies and any other critter smaller than itself for that matter... I realized upon seeing it that there's no way I'd ever let a bub play in the yard without watching the child now, as I reckon it would easily devour children up to 80cm in height. 💣 You can say there's no apex predators on land here but hmm, that thing was bloody huge- if I had have run it over, it would have taken out my citroen van's suspension and smashed the front end up as well.