160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 | Meet the Ferals Ep 6 | ABC Australia

[@abcaustralia]

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[@gumbootnet]

It would have been nice if the ABC had acknowledge CSIRO for the rabbit drive footage used at the beginning of this clip.

[@lajoyalobos2009]

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

[@danijelandroid]

I think there is even a water buffalo war.

[@ianmackenzie686]

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

[@magicassassin1947]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gultajsingh8095]

Australia vs feral goats Australia vs camels

[@otroflores91]

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

[@linda1258]

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

[@sivartb7273]

They just can't win.

[@1legend517]

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

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

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

[@MrTiger243]

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

[@jammm3660]

Sorry,For adding a 1 like to your 69 likes

[@soulshadoww55]

LOL!!!

[@penginator89]

i mean you are not wrong

[@jamied8678]

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

[@michaelhancock1954]

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.

[@yonissaid714]

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

[@betternot1871]

Whether feral hogs or feral cats lol

[@tdog152]

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

[@jonathanwhite3507]

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

[@mikehanner3489]

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

[@striveknight4782]

A War with EMUs

[@cwillie1492]

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

[@joelalvares8351]

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

[@bdb34mc84]

Love it!! I miss Loony Tunes on Sat mornings

[@girishmahajan3646]

Emus and kangaroos chilling in background

[@dangerbeans9639]

Australia’s inadvertently breeding super bunnies.

[@floppingtuna2022]

@Tony .w lmao xd

[@glenbaker4024]

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

[@timnavarrette3274]

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

[@djha4287]

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

[@memesjenkins2104]

Not anymore, mice have CLEARLY taken the crown.

[@lukemarchionne]

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

[@ulwimi_oluninzi]

@@lukemarchionne Ye

[@deanpd3402]

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.

[@AFKDud3]

Yup

[@thomasgeorge4559]

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

[@ninny65]

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

[@scootergrant8683]

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

[@Smurf5738]

Same logic put snakeheads in florida

[@brq267]

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

[@nelzelpher7158]

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

[@marshmallowbudgie]

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

[@allenjenkins7947]

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

[@jonathantan2469]

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

[@ctj111]

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

[@RayMak]

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

[@antechinus100]

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

[@Who_tf_cares420]

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

[@huh904]

I'm hungry now

[@Pochonesian]

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.

[@Who_tf_cares420]

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

[@ike212111]

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

[@Rawflcounsel76]

you mean "we hop high and fast"!

[@gutsdw]

More like screeching and running away

[@nabayanchakma2419]

Annihilate humans and cultivate carrots

[@Zhang158]

Get lost Peta guy

[@sannidhyabalkote9536]

@@Zhang158 bhai Joke sar ke upar se gaya tere

[@sarcasmo57]

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

[@suemills4434]

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

[@personalfunfest]

that only works on 🐑🐑🐑

[@Sk-ym1uv]

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

[@ShannonSouthAfrica]

They dont understand English

[@adriankingston4338]

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

[@jacobcarolan1172]

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.

[@kawa99]

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

[@gaestroorly4668]

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

[@moneyisking777]

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

[@TheHmoobkey]

They most likely are gonna make super soldier rabbits lol

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

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

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

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

[@nilnil8411]

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

[@jonnygonehawking380]

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

[@jonnygonehawking380]

Its called RHDV2

[@jthepickle7]

Been there, done that with the bison.

[@oscarguijosa7881]

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

[@abubakaranwar6859]

@@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

[@RaptorSquadronRhein]

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

[@johngamerschlag7001]

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

[@PacoQuerak]

then plant something besides eucalypts

[@Tea.is.fantastic.2019]

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

[@AY-vi2ld]

They bounce back and thrive quickly Australia is made for fire

[@rotorheadv8]

Australia has always had fires. It always recovers.

[@johnnunn8688]

@@PacoQuerak, exactly.

[@vmutuma]

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

[@Diddley_Squat]

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

[@publicdomain3378]

Them hogs will be good for the coming years

[@ayunkhan2395]

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

[@wesleydaub8002]

Send the Pythons to Australia, bunny problem over.

[@ayunkhan2395]

@@wesleydaub8002 then youll have a python problem, mate

[@singaboiz]

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

[@deanpd3402]

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

[@josephastier7421]

"camel"?

[@joevarga5982]

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

[@cemasti4524]

How r Camels?

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

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

[@scottydouglass1892]

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

[@iamthejabberwock2872]

Good man your father.

[@johnwilliamknox7156]

Robber

[@MussaKZN]

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

[@dun0790]

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

[@kkwun4969]

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

[@GuyIncognito233]

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

[@OldBlue560]

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

[@stuntmangMUSIC]

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

[@shhheee]

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

[@erismorreti549]

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

[@mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo8212]

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

[@stk6755]

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

[@ዮኒሐበሻ]

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

[@javiercantu9271]

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

[@akunajoshua]

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

[@javiercantu9271]

@@akunajoshua they cant chinese ate them all

[@galihpambudi1494]

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

[@akunajoshua]

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

[@stevenrusch6341]

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

[@aquarius5719]

They would eat mice...

[@antonfig1865]

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

[@johne7123]

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

[@johnnunn8688]

It’s a hot country, consider the logistics.

[@muhammadasruni8992]

So true 👍

[@someaafrika.3379]

Exactly

[@veran6219]

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

[@michaelmorgan5303]

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

[@newatthis50]

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

[@vladimirlagos2688]

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

[@benlewis7686]

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

[@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM]

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

[@drmodestoesq]

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

[@shadowstalker6762]

24 years after your going back that is journalism right there

[@ktkt9982]

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

[@danelobe2524]

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

[@rochellelisa7959]

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

[@danelobe2524]

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

[@SF-ku2hp]

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

[@rochellelisa7959]

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

[@SF-ku2hp]

@@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?

[@OleJoe]

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

[@seangaw6429]

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

[@stephenbrewster3878]

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

[@seangaw6429]

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

[@justarandomyoutubeviewer2749]

@@seangaw6429 rabbit,, rabbies. Nah

[@jayanepal1880]

lol im dead

[@maxxxdrone7354]

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

[@dsaasd6162]

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

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

Australia is a pussy

[@bransonjallim2620]

dsa asd sama

[@mgmjferg89]

I clicked on the same video

[@edswope28]

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

[@fjeldfross9327]

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.

[@travisnorseman8648]

The whole biowarfare approach seems unnecessarily risky to me.

[@mathewhawkins5401]

I reckon next pandemic in the making

[@josipmickovic2572]

Exactly

[@celticwisdom.7430]

Deplorable and half of the world are starving.

[@tegan71969]

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

[@wannabecarguy]

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

[@mikegord]

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.

[@clivedavies7984]

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

[@sticustom]

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

[@allenjenkins7947]

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

[@Wasserkaktus]

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

[@blindfredy6128]

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

[@kasilofsteve]

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

[@thomasbroking7943]

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

[@velvetindigonight]

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

[@elmackoful]

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

[@kevinreyimperial9112]

Idiot

[@Wasserkaktus]

There are way more than you could ever eat.

[@terenceding1210]

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

[@_enigma_.]

Australia and their wars are so hilarious😂😂😂

[@DarrellWilkerson4.6]

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.

[@Aethuviel]

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

[@siddheshrane]

😂😂Underrated

[@nunyabiznes33]

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

[@nolashingout4940]

Wow

[@festyguy7405]

I was thinking about that!!

[@Don-is2rl]

😆😆 nice...

[@justdoingitjim7095]

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]

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

[@justdoingitjim7095]

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

[@Dukov82]

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

[@jacobgoldenofficial4321]

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

[@sticknbox6157]

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

[@cockruukovo3237]

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

[@sukeshvs2218]

@@cockruukovo3237 give it to me also

[@johnvanegmond1812]

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

[@Sporkonafork1]

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

[@manasseskamau5327]

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

[@punker4Real]

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

[@AlexOjideagu2]

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

[@samjennings6791]

Rabbit is absolutely delicious

[@fredandrew5441]

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

[@penginator89]

do you think what im thinkiing :)

[@binkysteaver9880]

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

[@punker4Real]

GMO VlRUSES

[@ChineseKiwi]

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.

[@i4niable]

They are up against everything from toads to camel...forgetting they themselves were among the intruders 🤭

[@JF-xm6tu]

@Pitar fan you realise most Australians are not convict descent right?

[@crysis4real]

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

[@nilesh7217]

Yeah like playboy magazine

[@opo3628]

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.

[@carlojones8610]

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

[@Rinkyu]

Ikr

[@Lbvfsuigtuht]

The rabbits aren't meant to live in Australia

[@mycuterabbits7754]

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

[@zaloreyes830]

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

[@LD12121]

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

[@MysteriousGecko82]

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

[@parshuram7431]

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

[@michaelmcleod3012]

That’s what happens when the predators have been eliminated

[@riddlemethat4911]

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

[@harry80124hill]

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

[@grancito2]

They were introduced, where there were not enough predators.

[@Aethuviel]

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

[@mr.mystery9338]

@@harry80124hill the tiger dog

[@motortraction]

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

[@elohimdagod]

The European way lol

[@yoboikamil525]

"how do you cull invasive species" "car"

[@--Nath--]

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

[@xCarbonBlack]

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

[@robinhanning6821]

The sniper grandson from TF2: I'll get my hunting equipment now

[@chapiit08]

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

[@PencilProper]

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

[@markshort9098]

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

[@jls1811]

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

[@velvetindigonight]

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

[@allenjenkins7947]

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

[@allencolvin4320]

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

[@zyrilesteban5817]

Smart

[@garyvee6023]

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

[@Camboge]

That fur and meat is worth something somewhere

[@samjennings6791]

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

[@dubistverrueckt]

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

[@kamrankhan-ud5vd]

Australia apparently needs you and your skill set

[@Springfield1795]

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

[@cn8299]

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

[@28russ]

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

[@thehello88]

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

[@punker4Real]

yeah really a new market could be opened if they took advantage of it they could mak emillions

[@paulhollowell9966]

Do they eat them ?

[@ChineseKiwi]

@@punker4Real too expensive and too slow. Not to mention it incentivises people to breed them. See 'The Cobra Effect'.

[@patrickkinney4998]

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

[@andreisebastianmarian9561]

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!

[@CobyTheRabbit]

Australians: Yes we got rid of all the rabbits!!! Mice: Haahhahahahahahhahahah

[@888rustey]

thats a dangerous game they are playing

[@nickhowatson4745]

mate these people are experts.

[@jarretdietzler7750]

Only dangerous for the rabbits

[@zeeshantamanna604]

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

[@SY27196]

So true Experimenting

[@chadlemon2335]

I agree

[@leswheeler2023]

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

[@dinkdankdoo3035]

Cats are the problem. Always are.

[@scootergrant8683]

Don't forget wallabies.

[@Paul-qs3nu]

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

[@mohammadnoormauludadnan1847]

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

[@m1ytcaws]

When apex predator extinct by humans these thing happens with humans

[@mr.paradise454]

Eat them! Greetings from Italy!!!

[@tedariesdaguro6517]

Australia: waging war against animals since the early 20th century.

[@danielblue4460]

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

[@alexanderludvigsen1893]

Yeah, tell the Chinese that Australian rabbits have healing properties

[@williamlau7179]

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

[@Jimmy-ng4wy]

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

[@mycuterabbits7754]

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

[@manhphan1377]

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

[@krystal-animations]

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

[@DarrellWilkerson4.6]

Bruh you Americans are losing to pythons and hogs and actually lost real wars to farmers 😂😂😂

[@silverinternational101]

*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 😂🤣

[@izzy031096]

I was just glad he stuck with Toyota after all those years

[@silverinternational101]

@@izzy031096 LOL 😂

[@hammadrajpoot7288]

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

[@pedrorodriguez2914]

Gun laws are hard on Australians.🤓

[@rogerdiogo6893]

Too bad guns are forbidden...

[@joelmclamore1139]

Dont forget,huge croc,s.

[@7prudent]

Terrible indeed.

[@annahopp]

To non-Australians this is totally hilarious. I like the rabbit canning idea best.

[@leonardodtc1493]

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

[@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants]

@@leonardodtc1493 You mean the whole population of Aus could eat 1 per day and that wouldnt stop them?

[@RafikisAnts]

@@leonardodtc1493 unfortunately not just to many of them then nothing to do with em when they are caught

[@Tea.is.fantastic.2019]

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

[@phredphlintstone6455]

@@RafikisAnts eat them. Use the hide

[@dexterjsullen]

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

[@budsnvines]

Okay but why did she sound so gleeful when she said "...& we've infected them with deadly viruses"

[@HinduBoy]

Cuz this is the World 🤢

[@budsnvines]

@@HinduBoy ☹

[@lajoyalobos2009]

*News in 2033:* "A new virus has sparked another pandemic, likely from rabbit consumption in Australia."

[@budsnvines]

@@lajoyalobos2009 I know right. We'll get this video as a suggestion again from KZbin by then.

[@Barnabas555]

Just swap rabbits for humans...they always have a virus ready and waiting

[@guillermoc9957]

Why dont they just eat all those rabbits? They are expensive on my country lol

[@Reitz86]

Guillermo C too lazy to put in the work

[@jamuraisack5503]

"Up to a million rabbits a year were killed for canning."

[@Reitz86]

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.

[@Shumayal]

@@Reitz86 same here...and they still couldn't control rabbits lol

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

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.

[@dougpine4746]

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

[@raviteja-os8jh]

As a agriculture person can understand the pain of crop loss. But as well as human so sad

[@papasteve215]

I’m really sensitive about poisoning to change the ecosystems. It has multi generational consequences. I worked on the C-123 Ranch hand aircraft that sprayed the defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam. I’ve had cancer twice, kidney and pancreas. Plus a host of other health problems.

[@velvetindigonight]

Great comment. Have you read Germain Greers book 'White Beech' about her rewilding project in western Australia? Apparently the Australians used Agent Orange everywhere to control the forests/jungle for years. Now wonder who produced all that in the empty chemical factories after WW2 ended? Unbelievable. Take care.

[@jordanlittle5391]

You did see where it said they were invasive and not part of the ecosystem right

[@happity]

@@jordanlittle5391 Then hunt them or something else. Biowarfare is not a good option.

[@petevann8764]

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

[@ktkt9982]

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

[@punker4Real]

China would take them

[@ShayneMicchia]

love braised rabbit nanna style!

[@trevorlewis847]

Rabbit friccasee yum

[@AsimKhan-mo2ny]

Rabbit meat can be a substitute for other meats plus a good export Worth a look into Only difficulty catching them but I'm sure there's plenty of experts to do that.

[@markmccullough5873]

Rabbits could boiled whole to cook and remove the hair. Then be ground whole and used as the primary ingredient in pet food.

[@dontask8979]

Exactly. Feed the poor.

[@tobyhorn9641]

@@markmccullough5873 why feeding it to your dogs and cats is a waste besides the old timers here in the us had a sickness in dogs called the running blues witch was a made dogs go mad like hydrophobia would

[@edwardd9702]

Ancient armies and explorers that tried to live solely on rabbit meat died from protein poisoning. The meat is too lean.

[@ShaitaanBachha]

We humans are in millions as well, imagine another species starts culling us.

[@daniloverr]

*billions

[@Ryan62751]

We humans destroy everything even down to ourselves.

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

Around 7.6 billion.

[@TUTANKHAMUN077]

We are on top of the chain. We only kill each other...

[@ylpeacelove]

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. "

[@wallerstc]

U sure u saw a r rabbit? Bcoz Australia has lot of other things tht r huge😂

[@ylpeacelove]

@@wallerstc hhhh, even red ants 🐜 shocked me as well.

[@wallerstc]

@@ylpeacelove what else u saw tht were huge?🤣

[@ylpeacelove]

@@wallerstc Nothing's small in Straya.

[@renegadeace1735]

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

[@sheldonpusey6901]

It's crazy where I live in Jamaica, one mature rabbit cost up to $40 us, it's a delicacy here at $7 us per pound

[@tegan71969]

@Bert Clayton Yep, in this world market, there's a demand for everything!

[@potterelbarbaro]

Which pest is worst, bunys or European colonizers from 18th century?

[@davidfreeman2522]

Morons like you

[@mihaiilie8808]

@Heir apparent Australia is the only continent thats comparable to a non developed country.

[@marvinhayden7645]

Definitely colonizers.

[@jarlbalgruuf7701]

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.

[@yurisabrori]

@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

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

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

[@brianisme6498]

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

[@carolinejayes157]

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

[@supermax685]

Fun fact, rabbits taste like chicken lol

[@twothreefour234]

Mom shake and baked....and I helped

[@blank1778]

TheNatureLover it’s actually one of the healthiest meats but if you eat just rabbit for protein you would die

[@fontaineking5158]

No. They taste like rabbit.

[@abdulraheem415]

That's true my uncle make a really good stew with rabbit meat...

[@leonel2009ish]

Not really don't lie

[@carlwesternut2434]

More Licenced firearms holders on contract to hunt them all, would be far better than indiscriminate baiting.

[@asmoorthy1116]

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.

[@christopherwaldrop8115]

You must mean 10k or 20k hunters then, on daily watch for the next 10years?

[@carlwesternut2434]

@@christopherwaldrop8115 I'd sign up for it.

[@christopherwaldrop8115]

@@carlwesternut2434 , in all seriousness, me too. 👍

[@highlanderfreelancer4553]

@@asmoorthy1116 million dead from hunger every year

[@davetravelingheritage5403]

One of my favourite memories as a kid was cutting a walnut walking stick from the tree in the UK winter and drying it out over winter inside my parents house. Then the summer would arrive and 6 weeks of school holidays would come and it ment harvest time. I would follow the combine harvester around with my stick and kill rabbits by chasing them down as they came out of the corn at the end of the combine row. What a feeling taking home rabbits to my dad feeling so proud as he skinned and gutted them ready to freeze. In the last 20 year's you don't see any kids on the harvest field's now as it's been replaced with unhealthy stuff like online games etc. Memories i will never forget and as my parents no longer around but will never forget those summer days.

[@deepaknairneo]

This is what when you mess with "MOTHER NATURE"

[@thechosenone8052]

Man would destroy everything

[@_tuna_3843]

"On the next weapon on this never ending batttle" *takes a long drag on cigar* napalm...

[@Anomaly.Filmworks]

Smells like victory.

[@spencermccully4474]

One of the healthiest meats out there. Fun to hunt. Roast rabbit wrapped in maple bacon. From Canada enjoy

[@marka6327]

A tennis shoe wrapped in maple bacon would taste good.

[@LordOfThePancakes]

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

[@kirbycairo]

Maybe I missed it, but is the spread of the rabbits a result of not enough predators?

[@santyclause8034]

Foxes, dingoes, not so much feral cats, occasional hawk and eagle... Thing is the rabbit can outcompete native marsupials for grassland, and for a rabbit here's an open frontier to simply march over the competing native wildlife (the stuff eating the same food, nesting in the same habit, and competing for these resources in the same space). Simply put, the European Rabbit is not living under the same pressure over here that it is successfully adapted for in the ecology of the world from which it originates. And it doesn't pay attention to the seasonality of the natural cycle of local plant species, so it isn't really keeping a balance with the natural re-birth of flora either. There may be a lesson to draw from the disappearance of megafauna with the retreat of the Ice Age and new land bridges, climate change etc changing geographic topology of ecosystems back in the day with migrations of new species and that stuff.

[@Dubhghaill]

The problem was years ago the dumb arse's were shooting all the predators, Wedge tail eagles,Dingos, Foxes, and there still killing most of the predators today, No clue...

[@eljanrimsa5843]

It's unclear why they are so successful. One contributing factor is that much of the original woodland was converted to farming at the same time the rabbits were spreading. The native animals had to adapt to an unfamiliar environment and non-native plants while the rabbits were well adapted to this open environment and out-competed them.

[@hphillips7425]

Open a hunting season. Sorry I forgot they took all your guns

[@tevitaphillips3196]

its year round open season on rabbits and other ferals you mong

[@hphillips7425]

Tevita Phillips it’s time we stop the sibling rivalry 😊

[@fontaineking5158]

@@tevitaphillips3196 With your airsoft. 😆😆😆

[@tevitaphillips3196]

Fontaine King are you normal?

[@markshort9098]

Not all just most of them and made it so hard most people don't bother

[@EsotericGold_net]

Physical barriers and specialized fences are the only solution. Poisons always make their way back to the human food chain.

[@nobody4y]

Any wild animal can dig making physical barriers useless. Why not introduce a predator?