The Rabbit in Australia (1979)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- The story of the European rabbit in Australia must surely be one of the most amazing examples of an animal's ability to colonise a new land. Just how and why this happened makes a fascinating study.
This film traces the history of the rabbit from its evolutionary home in the Mediterranean through to its introduction into Australia as a source of food and sport and as a reminder of the English countryside. The rabbit population explosion began about 1860, and within 30 years, rabbit numbers had reached plague proportions over large parts of southern Australia. The long battle to control the rabbit had begun.
With the introduction of Myxomatosis in 1950 came the start of a big research effort aimed at a complete understanding of rabbit behaviour and ecology. Not many animals have ever been studied in such detail, so that we now have a much better understanding of how rabbits feed, breed and survive in different parts of Australia.
The film shows some aspects of social behaviour, reproduction and predation. It shows that, while rabbits were ideally suited to Australia's temperate areas, they have also adapted to living in arid country and even in alpine regions.
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This video was made prior to a continuing realization...many of the early efforts to control rabbits focused on killing rabbits through direct methods. Bad idea! Rabbits are a product of evolution made to rapidly reproduce through huge losses. Since this video rabbits have developed an immunity to the disease control method used. Many direct eradication methods killed predator populations and resulted in variable predator populations that could not grow to even out the rabbit growth. Australia has enough animals that will eat rabbits and can theoretically keep the population in check naturally...but control efforts have hindered this rather than helped it. (We've done this same thing in the US on many occasions in which we make a stupid move introducing a species that becomes invasive, and then attempt to directly eradicate it with disastrous results.)
Must fully agree. The eagles have nothing to eat and are dying out. The dingoes are killing sheep because there are no rabbits for them to eat.
If introduced predators where controlled along side rabbits, then native prey populations could increase meaning native predators can eat alternative foods.
You need rabbit hunting season. Sell tours, rent car. Sell equipment. Tourists will do the job.
We have a vet near us who if he sees a rabbit will euthanize then warn the shooter up the road rabbits near him.
@@Rabbit_101 No
We have a lot of rabbits in our neighborhood. I live in Georgia, USA.
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They may be pests, however, they are the cutest and gentlest animals on earth. They make the best pets.
And a great meal! Roasted with apples!
I wonder what is a difference between rabbits and humans in eye of nature? They both breeds fast and unbalance the planet earth. Rabbits can be controlled by predators but humans are top on food chain. Will alien come and control the human population ?
To serve man....IT'S A COOKBOOK!
There is absolutely no difference to nature. We're just set apart due to out ability to communicate and our technology. Well....rabbits are probably more likely to survive. I've seen people go fetal position at just the thought of losing WiFi.
At least rabbits are cute. Of what use are humans
You don't need aliens. Humans kill each other just fine.
***** LOL - I've seen it. Remember that DNS attack in the US a little over a month ago? It was like the end of the world for some people. I'm so glad I no longer work in telecom or IT.
I just watched a 20 minute video about rabbits.
Life complete
Yep - he gets a cookie for that one.
Oscar S Jaure And you get a cookie too!
22 minute
scarec kbud0 22 minutes and 43 seconds
Mate
The problem with rabbits, is that they are natures major food source, Prey. As such they multiply for many reasons, but the most prolific trigger is fear. Fear in a rabbit or most prey animals causes a preservation response. Fear however triggered, will make a rabbit immediately seek a mate to carry on his or her gene pool before dieing. The responce is why population numbers increase when rabbits are hunted as its natures way of quickly replenishing the ecological food stock. The same is the case for most prey animals including and especially pest insects.
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@@seancurran8249 Silly.. what a word. takes a silly person to wield it.
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So for that reason the Romans called Spain land of rabbits.
This documentary would have a completely different feel with heavy metal music.
Also if you switched the sound off.
rabbits are the master of adaptation and survival, so proud of them!
Slavic Aussie go frick off
"wild domestic cats"? isn't that an oxymoron ?
Yes it is. This doesn't include though cats that are not fed on time or those who get their tails trapped in a door or under the legs of a rocking chair.
No
Domestic cats than have gone wild
So rabbits are also an introduced species in the UK from about 1,000 years ago, by humans. What else should we know ? Rabbits are probably also not native to North America.
Bugs bunny: please help! I need pill
Australia: sorry we don't have any rabbit pills on here
I thought diversity was good, but it's not. Its harmony which is ideal.
Great Rabbit Documentary and i enjoyed it
Imagine being a country where invasive species can't be stopped by giant spiders and venomous snakes.
السؤال كل هذه الحيوانات الدخيلة لما يتم تصديرها لمن يعاني من أزمة الغذاء
تكلفة الإمساك بها و نقلها و تغذيتها في البواخر و تطعيمها ضد الأمراض باهضة الثمن، خاصة أن لحمها مليئ بالطفيليات عكس الأرانب المدجنة، الأسهل هو قتلها.
@@aliwhite1130 اها شكرا للايضاح
i love it when we mess with things we claim to fully understand and fuck ourselves over. such a long history of doing this, we're really never going to learn our lesson.
human beings colonizing new land is OK I guess. We have screwed up the whole planet and now we go about decimating animals that were released in to new lands but that Is not ok. Plane egotistic views of humankind
I like this invasive species. no complaints from me.
Right?
9:58 "They seem to spend a lot of doing just... nothing."
Case closed. I was destined to be a rabbit and somehow I ended up as a human...
He said "24 wild rabbits" he should have just said, "a lifetime supply" the way they take root and multiply
Superb ........thanks for the upload
I have written down so much stuff for this rabbit video and I am desperit to get a rabbit myself. (as a pet, not for food)
Good. Eating animals is a hprribly abuaive and outdated practice.
This is a perfect example of mankind ruining the balance nature has created.
Sure they meant well by bringing the rabbits but they didn't think it through very well did they?
The trappers must have because they must have come out ahead after all of this. But for everybody else it was an apocalypse.
Mike B no they certainly didn't mate. feral animals introduced by well meaning people in Australia include rabbits foxes cats pig buffalo camels canetoads just for a start. alot have bread out of control and have few natural enemies. they are wreaking havoc on our environment and numbers need to be culled in many cases. sad but true
How could you realistically have kept them out?
The Australians are seeing that RHDV-2 going around in America sounds like a solution to Australia's rabbit problem.
They are so amazing and i enjoyed this video.
Pests have been breeding in Minneapolis and Seattle for years. What is the solution?
Hi Dino,
CSIRO scientists are generally not able to assist with requests for an expert opinion, as their main activity and priority is to carry out their research, which means they are often off-site or time-restricted by project management requirements.
In this instance you might try these alternatives:
• expertconnect.global/
• theconversation.com/experts/
• www.expertguide.com.au/
Thanks,
Team CSIRO
Not tired, can't sleep, watch this you will be.
lots of laughs, I just slept 3 hours, & hit the back arrow to find out what played while I slept.
Apparently there is something to what you said!
Interesting documentary :)
my old friend used to poison them with superfast acting poison. they used to get thousands in one night. the whole district was built on rabbit pelts
Strychnine? I used to make a lot as a kid on selling pelts. A lot of us trapped in those days.
Yes but what he didn't tell was the massive after kill of other species resulting from eating the carcasses, it can be be a never ending chain .
It seems difficult to have a feral rabbit problem in Australia while experiencing a feral cat and feral dog problem all at the same time...
I think you're talking about different times.
@@goognamgoognw6637 ~ Probably, and thanks...
And feral horses.
Rabbit follows exponential growth in austrailia because of unlimited resources..... i.e why when some britishers released 24 rabbit .....and they grow tremendously
"SO FUNNY, at 10:01, very social creatures etc", they seem to spend most of their time doing just nothing, lol, sounds like me these days, the older I get, there more I sit around too ha ha sounds funny. Well wait I spend half my day in my hobbies. I love Rabbits as pets, also other animals so I am VERY against cruelty to animals. However the realist in me is like, yep population control is at "epic/urgent" conditions these days. So I just look away or stop watching anything to deal with anything to do with death to any of my most favorite animals. My old hobbies repeat themselves every few years or so. Now it is HUGE Toads or Frogs, I love em, they are so cute and huge and cool/funny looking. I wish someone in Australia would send me a HUGE cane toad, that that's even legal.
sweetest animals ever in most countries used as pets.
Australia doesn't have a lot of predators like snakes and hawks that are perfect to kill rabbits.
Those Wolves looked much more like Coyotes lol they're clearly far more emaciated over there in Europe.
Cute rabbit😘🥰🥰
I didn't know some parts of Australia got snow.
Well Australia has the high country, obviously it makes sense.
Should have introduced Elmer Fudd instead of Humphrey Bear.
I LIKE THE PEELER SHOTS THEY ARE SHARP AND QUICK
I saw natural clouds instead of HAARP clouds. Just like when I was a child.
A million rabbits sound like a lot of rabbits but Australia is a big place.
Over 50 million rabbits died in the Uk from the introduction of myxi in the 1950's - in 1920 there was over a billion rabbits in Australia.
@@stefenney3126 That's a lot of rabbit stew.
The glory years of Australia all the way up to the late 90,s
I used to love bunny shooting as a kid, now there are no more rabbits, what are we going to shoot to feed the dogs? I was talking to a property owner last week were I used to shoot rabbits on his place years ago, he says now there are more Bandicoots than rabbits and spreading ticks.? He would prefer the rabbits, they didn't spread ticks to his cattle.
still plenty of rabbis in qld heaps in Victoria
Bandicoots are one of the most endangered species in Australia. Rabbits don't really belong there.
Tell him to suck it the fuck up for an incredibly endangered species' sake
Well I've learned a lot in this video. Very Interesting.
Thank you for this 🤓
Wow who would have thought Australia was founded on rabbit genocide...Thats really fucked up.
no
Ummmm I live in Australia and I've NEVER heard of this
That's funny.
My 220 swift AI and 55 gr at 4100 fps does a nice job on these fury warren dwellers.
Very exspencive way to take rabbits ,I take mine out to 400yrds with me catty .
Is that why they all taste the same?
March rabbit:)
Yep, this was made before the
Peta days. Full of good facts though.
There's only one?
Make eating rabbit fashionable. Rabbit meat with berries, baked in butter dough. Wow. Develop cuisine. Where you see a problem, I see a business opportunity.
They do eat rabbit, but people can't keep up at all. Rabbits are meant to be able to reproduce enough young to shrug off attacks from dozens of predators that eat them every day
bunny rabbit farming for rabbit stew
There a quite a lot of delicious Belgian meals with rabbit.
Funny lil 🐇 fight
Saw a movie once where they killed a rabbit with a hand grenade (it was the only way).
The Holy handgrenade, by any chance?
Yes...wasn't Monty Python's 'Legend of the Holy Grail'?
Thank god for wabbits, at least we will always have something to eat
Vin Cent shut the hell up
Go to hell
Nesquick Hopper me?
@@joluno23 no. Vin Cent.
Nesquick Hopper yes thank u
Rabbit is delicious.
Introduce foxes. When they get too numerous, take up fox hunting. Sell tickets to the British. Economic boom for Australia.
G. C. Joseph Seiler There's already foxes in Australia.
Theres foxes in Australia and they are a big problem too
Aussies should just eat the rabbits. Eat a rabbit, and never crave for chicken again. Same with wild boar. Delicious meat, better than can be bought on the open market. Every Aussie should have a full rabbit fur coat, and rabbit on the menu.
In your ass
Poor rabbit
This video came out dark and you could see anything👎
I used to shoot for the government along time ago.250 to 300 pair a night
9:58 my life
Hahah same xD
interesante las historia de los conejos
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They taste just like a four legged chicken.
You could sponsor a rabbit hunt and offer cash or some kind of reward and or prize & then a big wabbit Barbecue. It would be a fun way to rid yourself of a problem critter there are many ways to go about it
Well it's better than kid's playing video games let them go out and harvest the rabbits it would be fun
I disagree, they taste way better than chicken, at least much better than the sad commercial chicken which is the only thing you can find in the last 30 years. I can barely remember a time when Chicken had a lot of taste, now chicken taste like plastic.
I've never eaten a four-legged chicken.
My advice to australia government to get ride or reduce rabbits is to immigrate wild carnivorous birds like owl 🦉 Eagle........ in a big quantity divided in all australia parts. But do better immigrate only male of those birds and keep some females in cages for production in order u want get troubles later of over population birds.
Would be fun to go over there a hunt all those bugs bunny as long as they supply ammo. WAbbit stew
You can catch a hundred rabbit & more than hundred......
Believe me.........
And there is one way & good idea
Da fuq am i watching lol
was up
So basicly Australia has a very proud of theyr military history they lost a war against fucking EMUS and got invaded by RABBITS OOOOOOFF!!!
I use to shoot 300 most night back in the day good money to get
Why not employ people with air guns, two or three to each area and after watching three young guys in the UK shooting rabbits every night for a whole week 237 per person per night.
There are too many rabbits in Aus for that method to work. Australia is too large and the rabbits breed to quickly. Also there are more predators in the UK
Poor rabbits
Brought in for food- catch them and eat them
I really want to eat rabbits, where can I find them? No supermarkets, no butcheries, no restaurants have any rabbits. We don't want poison to kill them, they will kill other wildlives. Better eat them instead of kill
In your ass
Nice
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wild dingos!
Richard Dawkins? ?
Is he a rabbit?
Darn it people, leave the rabbits alone!
marchrabbit85 People in New Zeland won't leave the possums alone.
marchrabbit85 you do realise that the rabbit is one of the most destructive animals for plants and trees
Marian FRD True in fact here in Australia the rabbit is the only animal on Australia's top 10 enviromental problems. All the rest are plants. This is also why Queensland is Australia's only state where keeping rabbits is against the law. It's quarantined after myxomatosis made them almost extinct there.
***** What I mean is it's the only animal on Australia's top 10 enviromental problems.
***** Well that's what I read in a book even though I hate the damage cane toads and foxes do to.
The book said "With the exception of the rabbit Australia's top 10 enviromental problems don't have backbones. They have leaves."
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bombs to rabbits
More Australian blood lust
Another misinformed vegan. Rabbits are destroying ecosystems. The same way vegans want extinction of ALL animals, fact
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Don't shoot them it's cruel I will cry
Don't worry I would not dare shoot a rabbit. It is so much easier to use a flamethrower!
Alice Nutella wow you are so mean
Its so cruel
Yea ik same
Adam Granby shut up
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Ah yea !!! Another species to drive to extinction !!! Just like Tasmanian tiger !!! Love it !!
Scumbag for killing rabbit
Weirdo.
Feral Rabbits are pest their numbers became so large that they destroyed crops and land , leading to soil erosion . They also negatively affected agriculture and plants by overgrazing . Not only did the rabbits wreak havoc on Australian croplands , they contributed to the decline of native plant and animal species .
According to wikipedia
stop Killing animals who is with me
Not the lion and the tigers, I'm guessing.
Yarimar Garcia me
The God Emperor Himself they’re not THAT bad
No not with you at all. We should however think carefully before culling, eat what we can and ensure they are killed humanely.
@@megdye236 OK explain what is a "humane killing"?