How Australia Keeps Losing Wars To Animals

How Australia Keeps Losing Wars To Animals
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[@OBFYT]

Just a little footnote. I know I pronounced Major wrong a few times in the video, but I had to redo the whole video after Final Cut Pro decided to crash last night. So please bear over with me and the other mistakes there might be in the video. Thank you

[@trunestor]

Australia is such weird country

[@superspeederbooster]

I didn't even hear it and great vid as always!

[@NaughtyNovaroo69]

I blame the British empire for all 3 pests except maybe the 4th one but then again if We use cats then they'll kill other species as well so unless We can nueture and put tracking devices on 10 million stray cats then maybe the move pandemic will take a heavy blow but then again well have to somehow make them not eat any other species tho

[@DonHrvato]

Well no worries we can live with it 😄

[@rshua]

Sorry to nitpick, but does that include implying emus are an invasive species? I thought emus were native to Australia

[@arforafro5523]

Australians surrounded by poisonous and venomous animals: This is fine Australians surrounded by rabbits, birds, and toads: Get the machinegun

[@albrecht205]

Yes, because these animal are not native,

[@michaellorde4173]

Emus are tho

[@albrecht205]

@@michaellorde4173 yes

[@Sentient-potato]

Where not scared of the poisonous animals because there rare and we can just run away and burn the whole property

[@albrecht205]

@@Sentient-potato u mean burn the whole country?

[@thedam271]

If only the Dodo was discovered by the Australians instead of the Dutch....

[@SlyJustChilling]

lol

[@robertor1241]

The Netherlands hahahaha

[@vusancube]

Well Australia was discovered by the Dutch :-|

[@DonHrvato]

@@vusancube well I think the aboriginals were much earlier with the discovery of Australia

[@cozdod019]

@@DonHrvato *the aboriginals are natives of australia*

[@RockSolitude]

As an Australian I can confirm this is true. Soldiers coming back with PTSD from the 150-year Animal War is one of the biggest problems in our society. Thank you for bringing light to this situation.

[@Mr-Chick]

"Target spotted!" "Well, was it an emu?" "No sir, It's an emo." "Dammit Jones!" "Learn your vowels!" "I'm surry."

[@scarlettwitch1472]

Das a good one!

[@Mr-Chick]

@@scarlettwitch1472 You German? 😳

[@scarlettwitch1472]

@@Mr-Chick no

[@scarlettwitch1472]

@@Mr-Chick why did you ask?

[@Mr-Chick]

@@scarlettwitch1472 You said "das" It is the german version of "the"

[@lorax6001]

They lost the war against toads and rabbits clearly because they didn't have 3 dudes in a truck with a machine gun actively hunting them down

[@darkdraagoon]

In Australia we do not use “dude”, they are our mates

[@johnr797]

@@darkdraagoon don't think I've ever heard Australians use the word "mates" for 3 strangers that have been dead for decades

[@Sentient-potato]

Hi real Australian here Australia only went to wars with emus And also we use dude and mate

[@wildsideofthings7733]

No ones fighting rabbits and toads that way. Australia has the 3rd most invasive species in the world. Only beaten by the United States and New Zealand. A lot the species are being culled through hiring farmers, chemicals and pathogens.

[@BigRedsCrib]

@@wildsideofthings7733 Its also funny that all 3 countries that have major problems with invasive species are in the situation because of the British.

[@brianisme6498]

Emus aren’t invasive since they’re native. Cane toads and rabbits are though

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687]

Europeans are invasive in Australia too oops 😶

[@georgegriego2292]

@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 all humans came from East Africa making most people invasive

[@brianisme6498]

@@georgegriego2292 if you go by that definition then that makes dingoes non-native as they only appeared 6,000 years ago. Much shorter then the presences of the aboriginals.

[@brianisme6498]

@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 we all acknowledge that. I never said we aren’t.

[@goosenuggets9693]

​@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 Europeans are native to Australia. This can be said about anybody who is born in a country regardless of their genotypical ancestry, but it's true that they aren't indigenous.

[@justGoron]

The whole Emu bounty thing also backfired as farmers started to breed emus to make ends meet

[@regularity2556]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SMD1999]

😂😂 oh man

[@vernonfrance2974]

Like in the USA. You have a great source of meat called bison and you exterminate it so you can have beef. 🤠

[@RedVenerable-dl2fl]

Same happened with snake bounty in India 😅😂

[@ReplyReaper8617]

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[@phillipallred5172]

"Emus are just birds that can't fly" - Beta Human "And you're some humans who can't win a war against us." - Alpha Emu

[@christophergepullano9029]

DAAAAMNNN!

[@hamsrural7420]

As an Australian, involved in agriculture and as someone whom has been involved in a emu cull, i would love for you all to realise that 1. Emu's are Australian natives, 2. Kangaroos decimate more cropping and grazing country than Emu's, 3. neither of these animals are considered pest species, although since the introduction of European farming, grazing and water harvesting and storage practices for livestock both species have grown in number to the point that they can not sustain them selves in drought times so both have become a commodity and are harvested commercially. The Cane toads have spread across the top end, but now some native species of birds and some mammals have now evolved to be able to eat them. The Rabbit Population across Australia has massively decreased since the introduction of the recent strain of Colici Virus much faster spreading than Mixo as Colici is spread by Fly populations in spring and early summer. Also worthy of note is that Feral Cat's are the number 1 public enemy of Australian pest species and are responsible for the extinction of at-least 2 native species. Get your facts correct, you can find all the current information through our State and national environment and water government departments, whom i work closely with.

[@bronhaller]

I wish I could give your comment more than one like!

[@chrishoo2]

Feral cats also have another dimension around the world & that is that a lot of people only see them as cute kitties & ignore the fact that they kill millions of song birds every year!

[@scipioafricanus2071]

@@chrishoo2 Actually billions of birds just in North America alone get killed by feral cats. They are some mean killing machines that are responible for not just 1 or 2 extinct species around the globe.

[@rapnationnews5712]

tbh this comment makes this channel feel a lot less credible. I kept cringing at the 'invasive' Emu fact where it takes a single search to find that they are native.

[@rapnationnews5712]

And even then just knowledge of going to school for biology I'm sitting here thinking where else could giant birds be introduced from? Of course they're native

[@areasevenpro]

"My national bird is the emu, and it's a pest. Also bloody delicious."

[@markgarin6355]

Taste like chicken?

[@smaffles740]

And also makes us all great Feather hats

[@rohitupadhya6449]

Discount Ostriches

[@NaughtyNovaroo69]

That's it I have to try emu meat and not Roo meat

[@SlyJustChilling]

@CIA that wont matter if we throw capitalism out the window and become a democratic communist nation

[@mmikmont]

So in the middle of a food shortage, you have this GIANT chicken running around and the solution is ...let's call the army?

[@mihirvd01]

LMAO

[@eukalyptushm4378]

i cant😂😂😂

[@christinac3929]

Yeah, just like we imported cattle and sheep to appease the bloody American beef industry instead of farming and eating kangaroo and wallaby.

[@abjectt5440]

Many years ago I went to the Ontario Science Centre. Of all the exhibits the one that impressed me most was an 8X8" black and white photo showing a rabbit fence with hundreds of rabbits on one side denuded of vegetation and the other with vegetation of all kinds and no rabbits. Like in Newfoundland where a few moose were introduced for hunting and now there are thousands of animals there.

[@joselee9605]

“What doesn’t kill you, is probably not native to Australia” -Sun Tzu, Art of war (Probably) Rip Mr Man 2021-2021

[@joselee9605]

@MR MAN There, I fixed it

[@leearobinson5180]

@@joselee9605 haha

[@DarthAwar]

@MR MAN I was a joke mate relax!

[@baratong267]

bro thats fucking ghandi

[@olefella7561]

May be, just may be it's about time to think of returning to port of origin, jolly old England! 🤔 For truths on vast bountiful landmass called Australia in Asia-Pacific region, pls read my informative multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment at, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmfRnHSMmsyeZsk

[@TheJttv]

Random fact: Cane Toads in Australia are one of the fastest evolving animals with toads in the West having longer legs than those in the East as they have gotten longer as they hopped their way across the country

[@brianisme6498]

Yep. They’re growing so fast that some populations have gotten arthritis as technically they’re not built to be as large as they’ve gotten. Overtime they may adapt as all life does and will engrain themselves into the ecosystems to become a native species

[@FOLIPE]

@@brianisme6498 it will take a while and it will also change the ecosystem forever meanwhile

[@brianisme6498]

@@FOLIPE overtime the change will result in them becoming engrained into the ecosystems with other species either going extinct or forced to adapt alongside them.

[@Mister-Wabbit]

Cant the goverment give insetive for ppl to hunt the toads?

[@TheJttv]

@@Mister-Wabbit Australia is remote as fuck which makes the task that much harder

[@tuvillo]

I actually did a promotional study on a relevant subject. We were studying whether lowering the capture/hunt of muskrats would have any negative effects at all, because theoretically, removing a certain amount of individuals would simply let the remaining ones thrive, unless you remove a LOT of them. Basically, shooting any number of emu that aren't a significant portion of them, would just increase the population growth of what's left.

[@youtubeaccount6539]

Everyone likes to make fun of the Australians for losing, but nobody wants to acknowledge the fact that the Emus are not abiding by the Geneva Conventions. It’s unfair.

[@MatthewStinar]

This brings a whole new meaning to the expression killing two birds with one stone.

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

Lol agree I think humans need to learn to coexist I should make a video on this topic

[@leominati]

No

[@jaynebarnes2138]

Yeah, nah.

[@goosenuggets9693]

@@Thebreakdownshow1 No.

[@goosenuggets9693]

@@Thebreakdownshow1 You need to co-exist with people who don't want to co-exist.

[@Sumcant]

Emus are not a problem in Australia, feral cats, foxes, Indian minor birds , cane toads, rabbits and politicians are the problem in Australia…Mate!

[@autizgiz2756]

Americans don't know shit, the emu war was bs made up from Australians

[@rodrigojalcacanarte3011]

Yes. Politicians are a plague...well, in every country actually

[@shoppinmadnesz22]

I mean politicians are corrupt in general but I'd say Australia's politics are better than like 95% of the world's government. for the most part, they actually seem to look out for their people & maintain a moral high ground

[@BlackHawkTejas]

@@shoppinmadnesz22 LoL! The truth is far from it!!

[@Suddsy4L]

@@shoppinmadnesz22 you don’t live In Australia

[@judgegroovyman]

3:05 “subtraction hadnt been invented back then” lol well played sir!

[@Shorty24136]

Also massive issues with foxes (fox proof fence is also a thing), wild dogs (most dingos are now hybrids), feral cats, pigs, deer, and brumbies (but this one is continuous)

[@dominic6634]

The emu resistance still putting up a fight after that Aussie blitz

[@lunafringe10]

i lived in Australia for 8 years and never saw an Emu, nor a camel, nor a Dingo. how are they a plague then_

[@tdb7992]

It's near impossible to explain to a non-Australian just how indestructible these birds are, and just how stupid they are. You can be driving 110k/hr on a rural highway, and out of nowhere an emu will run into your car thinking that's the best way to escape. I believe one emu was found after the "war" with over 30 bullets in it, and it was still alive. They just can't be killed. I grew up in Perth and we'd never heard of the Emu War until foreigners on the internet started talking about it. It was like a national secret or something.

[@huggableteddybearxd9735]

they weren't there, they didn't see what we saw.

[@ildile8248]

As a non-Australian this comment is hilarious, I’m sorry xD

[@ayonbiswas4186]

As a non-austrailian 😲😲

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

a national *shame

[@mfhusain5891]

So you are Aboriginese, aren't you?

[@b.michaellewis2435]

I'm in Meriden western Australia right now. This town actually was involved in the emu wars 1 and 2. If you look up merridan aircraft hangers you might find information on some of the facilities they had here during the wars. Just doing security work at the hospital and I'm looking forward to getting back to Perth.

[@b.michaellewis2435]

Merridan

[@vernonfrance2974]

But Perth is the land of your birth and you probably don't even find that emus are emusing.

[@TheChaznw]

Hawaii imported the mongoose to control the rats on sugar cane plantations. There is just one problem, rats are nocturnal and the mongoose is active during the day. What were they thinking??

[@GeeROO]

Fun fact. The Emu and Kangaroo are the two animals on the Australian coat of arms. They were chosen because they cannot walk backwards and symbolise that Australia is moving forward. For the rabbits there has actually been a second type of virus released in the last 20 years. the CALICIVIRUS.

[@long_chin_man]

oh cool another deadly ship-jumping virus that totally will work

[@autizgiz2756]

Yea that virus killed my mf rabbit in 2016

[@hilliard665]

Fyi it's pronounced kaleesi like GoT Idk if I spelt that right.

[@MrDibara]

How effective was that new virus? By this video's impression, I doubt it managed to dent their population for long.

[@hilliard665]

@@MrDibara the video gives that impression by using a non-australian source (national Geographic)

[@Wewishwewerepros]

Emus arnt invasive to aus, they’re native, they’re just not so loved

[@RR-xz6bv]

They refuse to be like the dodo

[@wildsideofthings7733]

IKR it was frustrating me so much lol

[@gurlbye9942]

why are they not so loved besides the fact that they eat grains?

[@rahtjesu]

@@gurlbye9942 they trample farm lands n eat them -- 1:50 time stamp

[@rahtjesu]

1:45 *

[@WailfulSeeker82]

I first heard about "The Great Emu War" from the Official Podcast. So happy I dove down this rabbit hole 😂

[@Diamond_Hanz]

When u realize the Australia gave up all it's guns 😂

[@DalkSarraroZerkulin]

It's absolutely brilliant how Australia has alot of nature experts but none of them have solutions?

[@nhlanhlaradebe8]

🤣 🤣

[@gimlysadasda]

"Expert" doesnt mean anything man haha

[@eljanrimsa5843]

No doubt KZbin experts can solve nature

[@chrisclifford7080]

@@eljanrimsa5843 employ chemical warfare against the non native species.

[@timway6839]

There not allowed solutions

[@abe4487]

The EMUs are the indigenous species and the humans are the invasive species, just thought I should clarify since he mentions the EMUs as invasive species

[@bossdog1480]

The Emu is not an invasive pest. It's native to Australia. It has been here for about 80 million years.

[@jamaalfridge]

"The rabbits are suspected of being the reason behind the loss of wildlife in Australia." Deflected blame like a pro.

[@mcguffindapuffin7482]

yea that title belongs to cats

[@andrealettich]

Rabbits? Why? They eating and destroy all?

[@sambros2]

@@andrealettich they breed a lot rabbits are illegal here

[@andrealettich]

@@sambros2 👍🏻

[@greenthepokemontrainer3358]

you mean like a *pyro* ?

[@potaterjim]

"Well, it's not like they lost to spiders..." "Everytime it floods, all the spiders form a coalition and move to high ground, literally blanketing the country side in webbing."

[@lilredwagon5311]

Burn it...burn it all...

[@sher618]

again?

[@firstnamelastname7298]

@@sher618 australia is home to alot of spiders and bugs. so to escape the flood when there's intense rain. EVERY FUCKING BUG AND INSECT CRAWL UP INTO ANYTHING. CENTIPEDES SPIDERS WORMS BEETLES EVERYTHUNG

[@stelviodelbrava6218]

So humans can't eradicate mice in Australia, but they tell us about colonizing the Galaxy. Alright.

[@avengersnewbie2348]

i like how sciece tlk about needing of at least 500 of same species for efficient reproduction but Australia is on another level

[@briangarrow448]

Australia made it’s first mistake by not employing air power against the marauding emus. Suppressing fire from planes would have made the difference!

[@FOLIPE]

Anti-emu drones

[@fnfal6286]

Usa is done in Afghanistan, next war will be in Australia defending the aussies against the mice,frog,Rabbit, Emu terrorists

[@thepoglin8479]

i doubt they had atack choppers in the 1930s

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Every plane fitted with a large aviary full of birds of prey to get the smaller stuff...

[@seanowens3153]

@@fnfal6286 il take chances with the wildlife thanks, send the boys somewhere else

[@sebastianwrites]

Where does the narrator keep on saying Emus are an invasive species, when they are "native" to Australia? There were a few other mistakes in this respect also!

[@vernonfrance2974]

The human is the world's most dangerous invasive species.

[@munkhtulgabattogtokh1602]

We need a King's and Generals video about this. Too epic

[@jimmygrant424]

Yeah ole Jeremy Wade there had a show on about the cane toads and it showed a crocodile that had tried to eat one and died right in the middle of swallowing it!!

[@richard09able]

3 soldiers vs 20,000… and the emu is still here, makes sense.

[@Empdizz]

I’d say feral cats have made more native animals extinct than rabbits have.

[@nandinhocunha440]

Cat causes most animals extinction

[@goosenuggets9693]

@@nandinhocunha440 If you go by raw numbers than yes, if you consider that the vast majority of these are small animals that have far higher population counts than the likes of larger animals: white rhino, sea turtles, etc.

[@bangscutter]

But then cat lovers world wide hate it when people cull feral cats. They let their emotional attachment cloud their better judgement. Feral cat hunters get death threats because those ignorant cat lovers don't understand the threat that feral cats pose. There are cats everywhere in the world and they are not going extinct, but native small animals are only present in certain places and are under threat of extinction.

[@nandinhocunha440]

@@goosenuggets9693 I was say the animals. We all know humans drove animals to extinction

[@markchamplive1]

@@bangscutter Cats are sort of in a weird position to be both a terrible blight on biodiversity and a common housepet. Someone feeds Garfield, their 12 year old Tabby, after an expensive resolution to its latest bout of vomitting and steps outside to see a random cat get destroyed by an arrow. It would seem strange if they were perfectly happy, even knowing that wild cats have led to the disappearance of many local birds. Objectively, we would be better off with a feral cat hunting season but the backlash from all the people who attach the faces of every cat they ever loved to wild extinction machines prevents that from ever being a reality.

[@champnomnom7764]

Unknown entity at war with Australia: "UNLEASH THE RABBITS!"

[@MG-wx8yx]

Hahahaaaa. In the middle of the video and I'm loving this. Not even a movie can be this good.

[@hilliard665]

Fire ants are a serious invasive species in Australia, along with ferel cats and dogs. Those and rabbits plus cane toads are what have wiped more species then have been discovered in the last 20 years

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

what was Australia called before the brits became the serious invasive species?

[@widodoakrom3938]

​@@ShawnJonesHellionlol yeah

[@LuckayyLucario]

10:50 we actually have the largest fence in the world.... its larger than the ones you showed and its on our eastern side of Australia, it used to be used for rabbits as well but that of course did not work... but luckily it worked for dingoes and was upgraded to keep dingoes out of our fertile south east and works quite well

[@guillermocarranza451]

Isn’t that one causing erosion due to massive explosion of kangaroos population as there is no dingoes

[@vernonfrance2974]

@@guillermocarranza451 I don't think there's much erosion because the dingoes don't eat grass.

[@guillermocarranza451]

@@vernonfrance2974 did you read what I wrote correctly

[@tutucox]

Brazil is a hash environment , if you take a species from Brazil and put it in other place , even Australia ,it will multiply 10 fold :D

[@praveenv1983]

The great depression might have ended in a tie breaker , by feeding some emu for non vegetarians and just leaving some wheat for other emu to sustain.. Instead of wasting the emmunission , could have found traps to lock them and then create a farm for export by raising them domestically

[@markchamplive1]

I find individual mice absolutely adorable. Just the cutest damn things around. But words of affection fly out the window when the ground starts moving like that.

[@donniem7587]

0:32, I mean.. Wars are always fought by at least one side who 'isn't supposed to be there'

[@paulgriffith69]

Best comment ever

[@goosenuggets9693]

That is remarkably stupid. Most modern wars are fought over broader strategics and not land acquisition.

[@donniem7587]

@@goosenuggets9693 ur saying ‘remarkably stupid’ yet no-one was talking about land acquisition.. 🤔🤔

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

@@goosenuggets9693 thats cause you are behind most the wars an already killed off 4-7 continents. so all the land had been acquired an from here its shifts to slowly sneak in hoping man can outsmart what he thinks is monkey

[@birnamdown]

I'm surprised this isn't discussed more.... Emus and kangaroos had a natural predator in first nations people... they new when and how to hunt these animals and use what they killed... It was colonisers that disrupted this balance and then brought in invasive species which (much like colonisers) further disturbed these natural cycles.

[@faridjafari6356]

Regarding the mice problem you mentioned I remember the Australians also had a cat problem in their cities too so I wonder that do the cats do their job properly by eating the mice there?

[@cutekanjii]

The Emu I guess would be a difficult target considering its thin neck and head, it would be hard to hit in the days before scopes. could they not have brought in those ferret or stoats or whatever they are that kill rabbits or maybe they wouldn't survive the climate and I suppose snakes will eat some of the toads anyway.

[@minegaming4526]

saxton hale would have killed all of the emu's within 3 weeks

[@felixkjornsberg]

underrated comment lmao

[@tishaak2800]

Higher! Saxton haaaaaaaaale!

[@TREECO21]

Three weeks? What was he doing for 20 days? Killing rabbits, toads and yetis?

[@tonivoul1971]

@@TREECO21 maybe

[@gorilladisco9108]

Not just animals, but plants too. The other day I watched a video lamenting how cactus overrun Australian desert and their government can't do anything to stop it.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

🤣

[@JDReC100]

wut

[@widodoakrom3938]

Lol

[@vernonfrance2974]

How are the cacti harmful to the ecosystems?

[@mertel21]

Actually Emus are native to Australia, they are not invasive species there. In the point of view of the emus we are the invasive species there :D.

[@paulbaker9277]

Cricket bats golf clubs fence paling car tires and metho , can be used with great effect in the act of eradicating, the humble toad, and they will root any thing with a smile.

[@RNS681]

You should watch oversimplified emu war 😂

[@yanniskarageorgiou3573]

Or Sam O' Nellas own lol

[@thomasphilip8916]

Even animals fighting colonialism lol

[@mewdoesstuff]

Ah yes, rocket launcher vs emu, who will- *you freaking missed, didn't you.*

[@supergamergrill7734]

God dammit Kenny!

[@zetaking2909]

Look you dont miss with a rocket launcher lisa, the target just gets the fuck out of the way

[@NAME-yg8sl]

The Emus had the superior tactic 'running away'

[@bacon88r]

Emus: resist machinegun fire; weak against swords and wide-bladed arrows (weak necks) Cane Toads: resist poison, cats, dogs; weak against bludgeoning and piercing weapons Rabbits: resist slow attacks; weak against fast attacks there. solved your problem

[@lukesimpson3080]

Emus are not an evasive species, they’re native to Australia and much loved.

[@leaveleague3491]

Emu legit started a civil war in Australia

[@Cyclops0000]

11:58 "The conditions for reproducing were optimal in Australia." I think I speak for all men when I say: SIGN ME UP!

[@Yas-rr8ke]

Hol up

[@officialspock]

When did rabbits start watching youtube?

[@Cyclops0000]

@@officialspock How do you know they haven't always been?

[@goldbrodidoggo]

But Aussie population don't surpass Malaysia yet.. Only applied to animals i guess 😂

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

@@officialspock humans with offspring either make mistakes or they are purposefully creating replicas of their own type. i dont even think they like sex cause most families don't have sex usually. its all about thinking the world needs more of you

[@erikpeters3762]

The calicivirus has kept the rabbits under control mostly since its release. We have many more problems though. Feral camels, feral cats by the millions, deer, wild brumbies ( horses ), goats, foxes, pigeons, Indian minor birds, fish like tilapia and carp and cross bread native dingo's with domestic dogs are some that come to mind.

[@reon5346]

Rabbits were pretty terrible back in the day. The only thing that really stopped them was drought, but in the wet years they could potentially eat through most of a farmers crop in a relatively short period. This is why they were referred to as the ''living drought''. Whats more, because they ate through all of the grass and ground cover plants it would expose the soils, leading to degradation of the land and desertification. Drifting sand dunes was sometimes attributed to their prolific eating.

[@anon8774]

Mateee, some of the greatest battles of the 20th century right here

[@CityWayzz]

Don’t forget about the drop bears one of the most vicious animals in straya

[@conniecrawford5231]

Ah, yes- when I was in Oz, I feared the. for the infamous drop bears!

[@munkhtulgabattogtokh1602]

Is there any film about this?

[@matty8944]

My grandfather is 82 and has been a farmer all his life. He told me that before the Kalisi virus was released it wasn't uncommon to see so many rabbits in one place that you couldn't see the ground. Him and his mates would go hunting and it would be a bad night if they didn't shoot at least 50 rabbits. In comparision a good night rabbit hunting in 2020s is 2-3.

[@swapnilwarule9308]

That's such an embarrassment spanning over decades 😂

[@brianisme6498]

I mean Australia has the 3rd most invasive species in the world ( US 2nd and New Zealand 1st) so we’re not winning any war against animals anytime soon

[@swapnilwarule9308]

@@brianisme6498 Which species in US ? I haven't heard of any US animal war 🤔

[@brianisme6498]

@@swapnilwarule9308 it’s not technically war. Just like how Cain toads and rabbits haven’t been referred to as at war. But the US does have the 2nd most invasive species in the world. Eg, honey bees, peacocks, iguanas, domestic and stray animals, anacondas, black rats and many many more. Overall the United States has 4,300 introduced species.

[@swapnilwarule9308]

@@brianisme6498 Oh damn, that's a lot

[@tmd-w1552]

@@brianisme6498 isn't honey bees a good thing?

[@iberianslivestreams9597]

Rabbits know how to multiply very fast tho.

[@towaritch]

....,less than humans though

[@FRISHR]

Good thing they were just normal Emus, no Attack Emu, Armored Emu, Colossal Emu, Jaw Emu, Beast Emu etc.

[@Silent_poet]

Fun fact: Emus are the natives here, Australians are the invasive species here😂

[@widodoakrom3938]

True

[@somedayitsgonnamakesense]

imagine bringing endangered species to Australia! they'll multiply like rabbits!

[@atulgokuyamaha7]

Tigers

[@NoVisionGuy]

@@atulgokuyamaha7 I don't think that's a good idea

[@atulgokuyamaha7]

@@NoVisionGuy Thats a good idea They will eat these big birds rabbits kill all rats...

[@NoVisionGuy]

@@atulgokuyamaha7 maybe honey badgers but not tigers

[@tungsten8332]

@@atulgokuyamaha7 But, will they even bother wasting energy to hunt rabbits and rats though?

[@originalsusser]

You don't sound Australian but you are one of the few non Aussie KZbinrs who pronounces emu correctly. It matters & I appreciate your efforts, great job & a really interesting & accurate account of a little known time in our history.

[@CosmicToad5000]

wait how do people miss pronounce it? do they say "ehm-u" or something?

[@originalsusser]

@@CosmicToad5000 it's all in the 'mu'.... An Aussie will pronounce it 'mew', like 'new', but with a m so it goes emew. Most pronounce it more like 'moo' as in emoo. Any KZbinr in their vids who pronounce it thus I wouldn't trust their content cause if they didn't take the time to get that right how much more of it is going to be wrong too! I hoped this helped

[@vernonfrance2974]

@@originalsusser An emu by any other name would still be pronounced e-mew!

[@saturn724]

They introduced cats to control the mice, but now they have a feral cat problem....

[@fotorabia]

Even the foxes in Australia have a definitive desert look to them in how theyve adapted to the environment...i saw a pair in Sth Australia...

[@zetaking2909]

there is an actually easy and possibly cost effective way to fix the emu and possibly rabbit problem that that one would be tough, go to Texas and Louisiana, and offer cheap hunting trips with discounts on butchering an taxidermy. Problem is now you would have invasive species of Texans and Cajuns, and god forbit if they can cross populate with the local Australian subspecies of humans ^^ emu and gator jumbo tho

[@ibrahimjoel6080]

Australia has been my future dream destination for a while now. But with this civil war going on and the animals seems to be winning, makes me begin to wonder which side I should approach for my Visa.

[@patriotamerican3069]

They don’t need any terrorist at all. Therefore, stay in your own country.

[@ibrahimjoel6080]

@@patriotamerican3069 why don't you go to bed now. Your mum might come in your room right now and it's way past bed time.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

@@ibrahimjoel6080 i think hes too dumb to realize your name looks more Israeli than arab. 🤔 tho stances may have magically changed an you no longer the greatest ally

[@ibrahimjoel6080]

@@ShawnJonesHellion lol. Yea. Although I'm an African christian actually, and ibrahim is just another form for Abraham in my tribe. I do love traveling around and 2 places I promised to visit in my life time are Australia and Japan, coz I find their society fascinating.

[@vernonfrance2974]

@@ibrahimjoel6080 They actually have very different societies so you should say I find their "societies" fascinating. Well I find African societies fascinating but not the Christian ones.

[@thatgamerboy3467]

"birds are terrifying" -Sun Tzu,Art of war

[@Lordgrayson]

I don't think people on the internet understand what it means to lose a war, just because they didn't wipe out the entire emu species doesn't mean they "Lost" they still killed around 1000 emu's and suffered 0 casualties, they also ended up preventing the emu's from taking their crops(the point of attacking the emu's) by using more durable fences that the emu's couldn't break down. It was a landslide victory for the humans

[@jashanestone]

You forgot about the other "Invasive Species Problem" that Australian has by trying to eradicate those mice. Australian wildlife Feral cats problem. 😼 👀 They even had hunting competitions. 🙀

[@AyoKeyloGaming]

This been the most cartoonist moments in history.i swear Elmer fudd had more success 😂

[@jarryd13loki]

I do hope we can manage the introduced species some day.

[@michaelhusada2276]

You forgot the foxes some bright spark decided to import to control the rabbits. They’re decimating the native wildlife and there was an industry to hunt them for their pelt. That industry is pretty much gone but the foxes remained.

[@dariuszdudka1991]

Probably, wars against animals are what shaped the memes about Australia.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

i actually picture crocodile dundee an then a large prison population trying to kill everything. raping each other often enough the death rate is outmatched

[@areasevenpro]

"Okay, it looks like the humans are coming for us. But check this out. I've come up with an amazing plan. See if you can follow me here, OK? When they approach, we run away."

[@justnothing8692]

question is not will the mice win but what kind of cat will be introduced to fight them

[@smu1geee]

as a perthian in western australia, i am feeling quite safe seeing as the only problem we've got are the ferral cats, which are alowed to be killed on sight. they're just pescky.

[@jezusbloodie]

Holy crap that's a lot of mice. Maybe we can ship legions of cats from Greek and Turkish coastal towns. That should be enough, right? (inb4: I know that the domesticated cat is the single most invasive and ecological destructive specie, after humans)

[@bravomike4734]

Well, I didn't know that. :)

[@towaritch]

You forgot stray 🐕

[@goosenuggets9693]

That's only by raw numbers.

[@goosenuggets9693]

The species they make extinct are often rodents.

[@m.tayyab3290]

That animated mice @14:04 gave me a mini heart attack, lol. I thought it was something on my screen.

[@polishmurderhornet1151]

Australia: declares war on Emus, also Australia: Marsal law

[@Rob-fc9wg]

WTF is "Marsal law"?

[@polishmurderhornet1151]

@@Rob-fc9wg it’s a term with Americans, those gun owners are basically allowed to kill criminals

[@jacobcuntington2540]

I'm Aussie and this is the first time hearing about this,"emu war". The government must keeping it hush hush. I've always wondering why foreigners talk about us losing a war to the emu, now, I know why. Ohhhhhhh

[@PhillipAmthor]

Australian: i fear no man _looks at at emu_ but this thing scares me

[@john1182]

Hey Hey Hey, we tried our best.

[@UFOCurrents]

@7:05 that's a Dan Wesson 8 inch CO2 BB revolver. An air gun. 😀👍

[@bradenlewis2160]

This guy is the best narrator ever!!!

[@dempopragola7337]

How about dingoes VS Australian sheepherder ? If I recalled Australian "won" it by building fences across the continent, from one side of the beach to the opposite side of the beach. If this equivalent to Berlin Wall, they are just still in a cold war against the dingoes.

[@reignadams6692]

6:05 That brave Emu deserved a medal the most it suicide bomb'd into the Australians and brought victory to its people

[@averagejoe8452]

As i read the title, i just wonder wth is going on there. My tears drop when i watched😂

[@ronnie9379]

"But after releasing the toads, the farmers quickly realized something-" "Since I've started Noom, I've lost 97 pounds"