The Longest Border Fence on Earth (isn’t meant for humans)

We already knew that Australia is.. unique, but this is a whole different level.
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[@RJ2691]

"grandpa can you tell me about your days in the army?" "WE WERE SURROUNDED BY EMUS ON EACH SIDE PINNING US DOWN"

[@jacksevert3099]

In America we're current fighting a similar war against Asian carp

[@rvalensp]

@@jacksevert3099 ah the invasive fish like lion fish in the sea

[@jacksevert3099]

@@rvalensp true! That's another war we're fighting in south Florida! Although these are all against invasive species so little different

[@rvalensp]

@@jacksevert3099 well its hard to say that asian carp meat is little greasy, earthy and bland but in vietnam or thailand there so many restaurants that use carp as the menu. Like lionfish as new menu in south florida resto

[@jx2729]

And the emus won! True story

[@mind4hire649]

The Emu war was nuts, would love for you to cover it. History at its weirdest

[@intrepid.]

Oversimplfied has done it

[@eonaalythia8525]

Hey Emu is cool, Not many countries' national birds won a war

[@jokermafia7081]

it's epic u should see Sam O'Nella video about it

[@supersu6138]

Hit like guys

[@ayeshapunjabi7870]

Name the series weird histories!

[@ESC_jackqulen]

Plot twist: Johnny already made an Emu war video and he's just teasing us

[@giochacon8354]

Highly likely haha 😂

[@1121494]

Hopefully.

[@cristianlemus4802]

Facts!😂

[@1121494]

Already looking forward to Johnny Harrys' Great Emu War Video as much as to "Well There's your Problem Podcast" upcoming next Episode on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

[@arrgghh1555]

It would be good if he learnt how to say emu first.

[@1123Navi]

The Emu War is one of my favorite stories from history. Please, make a video on it. I love to hear about it whenever I feel mentally done with humanity.

[@kirtanvora3789]

Emus part was the most wholesome, we need a video about it

[@elementarydrw]

I don't think you know what 'wholesome' means. Sending soldiers (albeit not many) to massacre non threatening birds is hardly suggestive of good health and wellbeing.

[@davidjakubowicz9921]

Check out "History Matters" great episode about Emu war

[@vopu]

Yeah exactly 🤣

[@joshuamcalister5363]

as long as he pronounces emu correctly: its Em-youuuu

[@rmfurm7935]

@@elementarydrw not to be rude but they were incredibly damaging to crops. after ww1 many soldiers were given land in pretty desolate areas, and emus often destroyed entire farms. after the so called emu war they put a bounty on any dead emu instead, and farmers hunted them themselves. the problem pretty much stopped.

[@brandonl1096]

as an aussie i never get sick of hearing about the emu wars PLEASE id love to see you do something on this!

[@p_4225]

Imagine your national bird is so powerful it won a war. That’s kinda awesome

[@moiseshurtado21]

Yes

[@Polska_Edits]

Also he should cover the football war maybe?

[@thetin_man9730]

Ya same

[@rextron6437]

an Emu war video would be cool but it would be an Emoo war. sorry I just hate when people mess up saying something so fenetically spelt. like it isn't hard I got that word before I ever heard it as a kid and I am dyslexic so maybe my thinking of everything should be spelt fenetically helped but bruh.

[@clar1nettist204]

the first time he said “these guys” we all knew who it was immediately, the british

[@soundninja99]

I was just listening to it and knew immediately

[@WKRP187]

Everytime I hear about the British colonizing S. Africa, Canada , US, New Zealand, Australia, India, Hong Kong and on and on and how they basically went to war with every colony wanting Independence from the British Empire while constantly being at War with France. I wonder just how many damn men did they have on that island that they could go to war endlessly for generations???? Must have had China's current population kinda numbers... LOL

[@nairagar7338]

@@WKRP187 they sent some people to Canada, us, Australia, etc. And they populate, now add all those people(who's loyal to the crown/country cuz that's where they came from) and you'll have a loooot of people. And as u said would literally equal to China's population as of today or something, and they would help, but I think UK got its lesson from America so they tried a peaceful way for independence I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@WKRP187]

@@nairagar7338 ., Ya I suppose your right it's just still pretty amazing to me how much either strong influence or outright control over the entire planet in the 1700s and 1800(Guess France and Spain weren't doing to bad either at the time)👍🏼 PS I can figure out how you did your stick figure drawing on everything but guys smile (lips) .. WTH symbol is that

[@ahmeddhahir8305]

true

[@terramater]

We just uploaded our dingo fence video a few days ago. Take a look! As you're our fav journalist here on youtube, we'd love to hear your opinion.

[@_perza]

I watched your vid and it was amazing!

[@nicole-nu4vy]

Balps

[@wildtheim]

Thank you for this plug. Your channel looks good, I'll watch your videos after this. 😊

[@keyboarddancers7751]

Great channel.

[@BUM8L2]

Okay two things 1. Yes of course we want an Emu wars story 2. I didn’t realise anyone outside Australia knew about “not happy Jan”. Kudos.

[@harrybetteridge7532]

Never understood the fascination with the Emu war I mean they're like the only like the 5th most dangerous bird in Australia.

[@rohanpotter8895]

As an Australian who loves your content I would LOVE to see an entire video of yours on The Great Emu War

[@alsyddan1376]

Colonizers

[@jamaphy8621]

@@alsyddan1376 ?

[@mateoperez6540]

As a Colombian who doesn't even have emus. I want that video...

[@shariniparab9875]

Didn't he make tht

[@shariniparab9875]

No my mistake it was thought y2

[@joejefferies11]

You need to make that emu vid bc now I am adding another odd thing to my Google search history.

[@kaiandpotatoes8463]

Watch oversimplified’s video!

[@mnkybndit]

@@kaiandpotatoes8463 came here say this too. His videos are very entertaining

[@tekwani99]

seconding this, yes please!

[@BoggiSpielt]

@@mnkybndit mmmh YES please.

[@larrian3846]

One interesting thing with this is is that dingos are a relatively recent addition to the Australian ecosystem - but their addition about 5000 years ago actually *replaced* old extinct predators like Thylacines and Thylacoleos that were likely hunted to extinction on the mainland by indigenous settlers. So in that gap, between having natural predators, *humans* were the natural predators of kangaroos and wallabies, and because white settlers killed and infected with deadly diseases 95% of the indigenous population, the kangaroos have basically zero competition now.

[@audreydoyle5268]

Thylacoleos died out because of native hunting. Thylacines died out because of poaching and captivity.

[@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2]

​@@audreydoyle5268 that's what he said?

[@ministerpopilyo]

@@audreydoyle5268 yes In Tasmania but they went extinct on the Australian mainland thousands of years before

[@mikerichards6065]

Johnny: 'If you want me to make a video about the Emu War' [Whole world mashes 'YES' button]

[@B15HOP]

I immediately started searching for this video. WHERE IS IT!?!?!?

[@skullyka]

We NEED the emu-video!

[@kwizeralambert1316]

YES

[@H1485-w2x]

Eeeeem U

[@zak_258]

Australian Army: Okay, we will bring our soldiers and weapons to get rid of these animals as usual. Emus: We don't do that here.

[@zaeidanis]

Think if emus were actually Communist in nature

[@rajbagwe3732]

Austrailian Army?

[@zak_258]

@@zaeidanis probably

[@zak_258]

@@rajbagwe3732 my bad!

[@mattearenzi8972]

xd

[@solisemporium]

As an Aussie I do appreciate the large amount of Australian pop culture references in this and also the fact that it’s the first intelligent video about Australia from an American I’ve seen in a while (blame TikTok 😭)

[@broko_]

Hey I’m not from Australia but did just find a channel called “BioArk” that has a few super intelligent and interesting vids on Australia’s wildlife and invasive species. Should check it out dude😋

[@YusuphYT]

Dudess*

[@Cris_the_coder]

Well Americans don’t really visit Aussie there’s a ton of better places to travel to. Don’t get me wrong I would visit in a heart beat but it wouldn’t be my first choice. Shoutout to Aussies tho love your accents and animals.

[@jttg]

@@Cris_the_coder racist

[@Gekumatz]

@@jttg lmao

[@Nonamelol.]

The moment your own national bird beat you in a war.

[@wieauchimmer]

Johnny: *explains the Emu War, full of excitement literally everybody: first time?

[@LCreeper575]

#oversimplified

[@terryboylewastherealh4647]

@@LCreeper575 finally someone mentioned it

[@LCreeper575]

Lol yeah.

[@againstthegrain69]

Yes hahahaha

[@cassieath]

As an Australian it was so cool to see some more representation of our history to viewers outside of Australia! Since videos like these are almost always about other parts of the world it’s easy to forget that Australia has some interesting stories and issues that need awareness too. Also PLEASE if you make a video about emus please pronounce them eMEW not eMOO

[@christopherbrown6583]

eMEW! Thank you Cassie!

[@WKRP187]

I pronounce those 2 differently spelled words the exact same way

[@smileyfacefrown2723]

eMEW for the win.

[@gumblebrum]

@@WKRP187 eemyou if that helps 😉

[@WKRP187]

@@gumblebrum what if you're a "fancy" guy is it pronounced eeMEOW😻😸!!!????

[@DKendallProductions]

The emu wars is such a great story.

[@thebrokegirl]

up

[@MakhalanyaneMotaung]

I'm from WA and historically that's about the only interesting thing we have going for us😂

[@michaelwagner2501]

Yes I'm so down for a emu war explained video standing by...

[@PS-wh1yr]

blame that loss on Western Australians, same people who are itching to secede

[@jasper.abonal]

Agree mate

[@ya7iaojerbi869]

This video is a piece of art that should be exhibited in a museum. thanks so much for the effort done to illuminate us about the risks of advancing our needs over everything else.

[@terramater]

wait, what? are you kidding me? we're in the midst of producing a video on the EXACT same topic! coming up in a few weeks. however: well done, johnny - as usual. if you have another environment or wildlife topic in your pipeline at some point, feel free to get in touch for a collab! keep up your great work. we love it.

[@sureshbalaji4139]

Recently found you guys .. Nice production... Way 2 go guys

[@shanzaarshad523]

You guys are amazing. Loving your channel content, All topics are well researched...

[@SchnippiTheCat]

oh wow - great to see you here! a collab would be 😲love you both terra mater & johnny

[@ESC_jackqulen]

Well, I guess you have to write about the rabbit fence instead lol

[@terramater]

@@sureshbalaji4139 Nice to hear that, thank you! We're always trying our best!

[@567secret]

And here I was thinking it was going to be the *rabbit* fence in Australia.

[@userjhansen3197]

That has rabbits on both sides

[@iainshearer6959]

The one for Emperor Nasi Goreng?

[@iainshearer6959]

@Johnny Harris, if you do the rabbit proof fence, please get this video cut in somehow. Best commercial ever: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKrGnKSvnJxopac

[@iainshearer6959]

And actually, another video reference or the rabbit proof fences, and topic you may want to look into,... (serious, not funny) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h522lJucotmth80

[@LeonTheAlchemist]

@@iainshearer6959 I'm glad they teach us about Emperor Nasi Goreng in school. Always get confused looks by non-Australians when I whip out those straight fire facts though. Seems like nobody else gets that sweet knowledge.

[@early7strikeland996]

Him: "Learn to share and not dominate it" The British Empire: *Hippity Hoppity This World Is My Property*

[@mattearenzi8972]

@@DyslexicMitochondria Ayyy bro I watch your videos. Absolutely love ur channeI

[@tomhappening]

@@DyslexicMitochondria Didnt expect u here

[@suyashawasthi1]

@@DyslexicMitochondria It helps conserve the meat.

[@war5561]

😳😂😳

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

Australian megafauna existed during the Pleistocene Epoch . Most of these species became extinct during the latter half of the Pleistocene, and the roles of human and climatic factors is the major reason why . Many modern researchers, including Tim Flannery, think that with the arrival of early Aboriginal Australians (around 70,000~65,000 years ago), hunting and the use of fire to manage their environment may have contributed to the extinction of the megafauna. Increased aridity during peak glaciation (about 18,000 years ago) may have also contributed, but most of the megafauna were already extinct by this time. The dingoes were actually brought to Australia by humans (The aboriginals ) . The thylacines also known as the Tasmanian tiger and the Tasmanian devil both disappeared from the Australian mainland because of dingoes and human activities even before the European arrived . The fact is there were already extensions that were happening before the Europeans came however the arrival of the Europeans only speed of things to an extraordinary rate. The same thing happened in Hawaii as well with the setting of the polynesians .

[@Skyoats]

One thing Johnny might find interesting is that the dingoes themselves, the reason for this whole debacle, were actually brought here by the ancestors of modern aboriginals tens of thousands of years before the Europeans showed up. This undoubtedly created an ecological disaster for Australia's native Kangaroo-eating predators. Nature is finnicky

[@Yourfavouriteaccount]

Another iconic fence in Australia is the rabbit proof fence even has a movie based on a real story

[@Creepr009]

Here's the link for the trailer of the movie if anyone is interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h522lJucotmth80 and another one that I found interesting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXm5k4l4gdGbea8

[@youytubey]

As an Aussie, highly recommend watching the rabbit proof fence

[@ynerrad9291]

Going to secondary school in New Zealand, we watched Rabbit Proof Fence in our social studies class. It’s a powerful film

[@jordanevans7499]

Thats what I thought it would be about

[@EatMyShortsAU]

Yeah I had to study/read that book in school.

[@jc-px8ox]

Most Johnny Harris video on borders: "So these guys from Europe decides to.."

[@DanielGislason]

Haha yeah and the funny thing european =americans back then. Soo

[@alexwyler4570]

" These guys" are Johnny's ancestors.

[@jc-px8ox]

@@alexwyler4570 doesn't make any difference whatsoever.

[@jc-px8ox]

@Rosé sry, but that was not what I meant.

[@JustNanais]

I need that video about the Emu Wars, it's just so crazy

[@adamliamalipaz6173]

Dingos are actually really new to the Australian ecology. They came over naturally but still new.

[@naduvnjak957]

I'm so glad he mentioned the emu war, please make a video, it's honestly just too much 😭

[@rz6078]

Yeahh agree

[@wildsideofthings7733]

Lol same

[@ydidudothistome1455]

Same

[@LizziesLukas]

Emu War is just Australian military embarrassing themselves at the world stage

[@azteceagle-goldeneagleguer7934]

@@rz6078 CIA The Nazis still alive CIA TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONCIA The Nazis still alive CIA TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

[@MarleenB]

Bring on the Emu Wars! I was born ready.

[@alex0589]

You see their talons once irl and youll run away. But you cant run.

[@SuperGreatWonderful]

Johnny, I am serious when I say I NEEED an Emu War video. I NEEDS IT.

[@stopsallmelb]

He gotta learn how to say it tho. E-mew not literally e-mu

[@connormartin6095]

yes 🌝

[@SinghAaditya]

Exactly

[@guitarRN80]

Johnny the ‘not happy Jan!‘ clip is iconic ! I laughed so hard as I’d forgotten about it. Can you please do something on the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine)? I’d be honoured to see you talk about it’s sad demise.

[@evilnet1]

Most of history: "It was until these guys showed up"

[@iwankazlow2268]

Aboriginals didn't live in balance with nature, they ducked up the eco system with their arival, burned down most of Australia, and extinguished A LOT of animals there. After that, with necessity, they lived with nature, after damaging the land beyond recognition of how it was before. Europeans are nothing special, and nature cares not of the origin of who duckes of an eco system. It happens all the time, often naturally. Then it can take centuries to find a new balance. We humans are just doing it more often, because of our disregard for established systems. And we think ourself smarter than we truely are.

[@axelfiraxa]

@@iwankazlow2268 objectively the first micro organisms that invented Oxygen caused mass genocide on the ecosystems of that time. So yeah, speaking about balance in nature is sort of ridiculous since there are constantly changing climate and other factors that mixes thing up all the time

[@chairmanmeow5793]

Dingos were introduced by the aborigines (which Johnny completely ignored) which contributed to the extinction of the thylacine on mainland australia as well. The British and Europeans were not unique in their destruction of native ecosystems.

[@ShubhamSingh-xk3qe]

There is a saying that if you see two fish fighting in water, you can be sure an Englishman passed by 5 minutes ago.

[@felixthehuman]

"Except for the Monglols"

[@sraj735]

You Write, Research, Edit & Publish putting so much of Time & Effort, & we flow with the Content like water in just minutes.

[@ChrisGnam]

Johnny Harris potentially talking about the Emu War is probably the thing I'm looking forward to most now

[@SailingUma]

6:10 ... YES!

[@Maico2010]

EMU WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

[@Cortezerino]

Dingoes are an introduced species, their arrival led to the extinction of Devils and Tigers on the mainland. At the same time the arrival of humans is the likely cause of the megafauna extinction. Aboriginal and European arrivals in Australia had a huge effect.

[@mangles9350]

pretty accurate, but the extinction of mega fauna extinction was caused by mass desertification after the last ice age

[@letsburn00]

@@mangles9350 That is simply not true. The ecosystem had gone through multiple dry cycles and it didn't kill off everything large. To paraphrase "Ice ages didn't make Australia this way, we did."

[@willeveryday]

Shhh, you can't say that. That's waycist. It was only the Europeans!!

[@LeonTheAlchemist]

@@mangles9350 Yeah, that's likely not true at all. It's estimated that 23 out of the 25 species of megafauna made extinct in Australia were as a direct result of the first humans to arrive in Australia wiping them out.

[@tomm5663]

The entire premise of this video is flawed. Dingoes were brought over roughly 10,000 years ago. The natural ecosystem of Australia DOES NOT HAVE DINGOES.

[@doug_barnard]

Can you make a video about The Berm in Morocco/Western Sahara?

[@BrianTMD]

Yasssd do this please

[@Taxdz]

What's that ??

[@mohsenjamal5106]

Great idea

[@mastercrafter101-minecraft5]

i did not think that I'd see my country in a comment on this video

[@rachelquaye-asamoah5386]

@@Taxdz it’s a territory that the world has forgotten about. it’s still a disputed country and almost no one cares except morocco (it’s neighboring country)

[@royalewithcheese7]

Basically this happened: *Ecology exists* Humans: "and I took that personally."

[@fedbeanfedbean9804]

When he was talking about the Emu Wars, my Inner-Aussie was slightly confused by his pronunciation of “emu” (it’s eem-yu)

[@0Milena_aneliM0]

Australians being Australians 🙄

[@ZelenskyPlane]

@@0Milena_aneliM0 huh?

[@extremesash2391]

Yeah hopefully there's an emu war video and if possible the accurate 'eem you' pronounciation!

[@dantaylor9132]

Yh, my Britishness gets annoyed when Americans don’t pronounce the u right

[@mjc0961]

I like how this is right below a comment claiming a completely different way is the correct way Australians pronounce it.

[@LeahandLevi]

Johnny, thanks for taking what could be "another map video" and placing it within the very difficult environmental context of today. Another banger video my friend. 🙋🏻‍♂️👍🏻

[@JohnDoe-vh7vc]

Nature always adapts... humans disruption js bullshit story

[@petershaw4828]

Johnny lied about many things in this video. He should be ashamed

[@robertlemonsjr]

@@petershaw4828 like what?

[@petershaw4828]

@@robertlemonsjr dingos are an introduced species. They are not native to Australia and are driving native animals to extinction

[@maazali9604]

@@JohnDoe-vh7vc it adapts but it takes time we are changing the environment way too fast

[@anth0888]

Iam LIVING for our Australian "not happy jan" reference you added haha. Everyone here in Australia knows it and it's a running "inside joke"

[@vinceemery5943]

I wouldn’t say it’s an inside joke, it’s just more like a thing we say.

[@BUM8L2]

I almost spat my tea across the room

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

Australian megafauna existed during the during the Pleistocene Epoch . Most of these species became extinct during the latter half of the Pleistocene, and the roles of human and climatic factors is the major reason why . Many modern researchers, including Tim Flannery, think that with the arrival of early Aboriginal Australians (around 70,000~65,000 years ago), hunting and the use of fire to manage their environment may have contributed to the extinction of the megafauna. Increased aridity during peak glaciation (about 18,000 years ago) may have also contributed, but most of the megafauna were already extinct by this time. The dingoes were actually brought to Australia by humans (The aboriginals ) . The thylacines also known as the Tasmanian tiger and the Tasmanian devil both disappeared from the Australian mainland because of dingoes and human activities even before the European arrived . The fact is there were already extensions that were happening before the Europeans came however the arrival of the Europeans only speed of things to an extraordinary rate. The same thing happened in Hawaii as well with the setting of the polynesians .

[@thesnassassn8521]

12:00 The aboriginals burnt down swaths of forrest in the west for food.

[@falcasantos]

Johnny: "It's a country, but it's basically its own continent" Me, a New Zealander, along with all the other Oceanic nations: 🥲

[@BUM8L2]

Well Australia IS a continent.

[@patricker22]

Isn't New Zealand on a different continent from Australia?

[@mich-l]

@@BUM8L2 but in Australia we were taught that our continent is Oceania

[@LudicrousTorpedo]

@@mich-l, I guess so, but boy the 2:47 made me crack a bit.

[@nishathh]

@@mich-l yeah we call Oceania australasia with Australia New Zealand Kiribati Tuvalu Palau all the islands not just Australia

[@meggysplace1675]

"The only way for long term survival as a species is to learn to share this Earth instead of always trying to dominate it." That struck, man. 🙌

[@linkbond08]

All this sharing sounds a lot like communism.

[@EmmaxHobbits]

- Me, talking to my chihuahua 🦊 👀

[@badhippo]

The first step in not dominating the planet would be to cull 50% of the human population. If we had less mouths to feed, less bodies to clothe, and less homes to heat, we'd not have to try and exploit the world as much as we do. But no, you bleeding hearts want crazy solutions, without realising that you are part of the problem, as we all are.

[@linkbond08]

@@badhippo yeap mass starvation, and genocide is part of communism.

[@badhippo]

@@linkbond08 - it applies to Capitalism too. Infact, mass inhumanity is one of humanity's most common traits.

[@LabourLawAdvisor]

You are an amazing creator, Love every single video, shows how much effort you put in each of them. ❤️

[@parthsharmabala]

Yesssssssss 💯❤️

[@gingus_627]

🏎️

[@vukbajic4904]

No he is not

[@autisticchoppa3589]

@@vukbajic4904 Yes he is

[@арефнар]

@@autisticchoppa3589 he isn't. He distorts arguments, brings them out of content and actually says NOTHING. He doesn't load the mind of the viewer with ANY information about anything and then zipps the head of his "imaginary white male evil". Hes a leftist media influencer who knows his own passive viewer.

[@ariestheram5693]

As soon as Johnny mentioned the word "emus" I audibly cheered like I'm in a football stadium

[@Andrew-df1dr]

He pronounced it incorrectly. He called them Em-moohs and not Em-tous.

[@mikecurran3005]

As an Australian, I really appreciate the twenty year old Yellow Pages ad reference 😂

[@TiffyVella1]

Agree! poor Jan :D

[@simonjohnson4704]

Ha! So glad its not just me.. :) Brilliant

[@KristoforLawson]

That was the best part!

[@fllkflkk8178]

The fact that my kids say NOT HAPPY JAN proves that saying will live on

[@MrFrancoisMorrissey]

can someone elaborate or point out what part of the video the reference? Just a curious Canadian

[@liamkurtyhnigov4064]

Bro i legit laughed when u said "well liam deal with it" really hits me deep

[@fixxundfertig]

Aussie here. Thanks for making this video. Your pronunciation of "beer" was spot on.

[@mattcurr9931]

shame about e-moo though (e-myoo for you foreigners)

[@jayayerson8819]

And he should never do the accent in public again.

[@Funckybunch]

But not emu….

[@rakeshsahoo8080]

Are your government doing something about those fences?

[@fixxundfertig]

@@rakeshsahoo8080 nope

[@Jaccogamescollects]

As an australian may i say. The way u said "hold my beer" was very well done .

[@Ola-rc7hm]

"And before I move on, I just have to talk about this* Australians: oh no here it comes

[@beawzonk]

As soon as he said that i was like "okay. heeeerrre we go!" Johnny Harris: "EMUS" Me: "TOLD YA!"

[@bluejello007]

The fact that you felt the need to ask whether there's interest in how emus won a war against humans... Yeah, I need this video yesterday.

[@TheLiamster]

I was not expecting to see my name in a Johnny Harris video and to be called an Australian Sheep Farmer.

[@naturevalleycrunch5502]

Horrible username but aggree

[@mohit_panjwani]

@@naturevalleycrunch5502 *agreed.

[@Hexagonius-js8tl]

When he said that dingos are a natural part of our ecosystem I rushed to the commencements to shout that dingos were actually introduced by the first nations people.

[@Vanwives]

Wooooooooow what a strong ending!!!! Could hardly sleep knowing you had a new video up! 👏🏽

[@petershaw4828]

Shame on Jonny. The video is based on a lie, dingos are wild dogs they are not native to Australia. They are driving to extinction true native animals whose ancestors have been here 10s of millions of years

[@gamermapper]

Another romanisation of indigenous people as people who know how to live with nature and live with each other, basically little angels. It's not the truth. There's some indigenous practices which are harmful to the environment. There also was a lot of indigenous wars too.

[@ToxicSpider0711]

@@gamermapper still it was there land and if we're comparing the environmental impact the Europeans had or the natives it's easy to see which did the worse

[@tonydai782]

@@gamermapper Duh, of course indigenous peoples don't always do the right thing, but this is in comparison to the European powers that we are talking about.

[@tonydai782]

@@petershaw4828 Sure some of them, but the dingoes have been in Australia for 3,450 years and it seems, at least somewhat, that they have integrated into the Australian ecosystem. They've filled the niches of the animals that they've driven to extinction.

[@jamesmontavon850]

"some sheep" and "no sheep" what a beautiful map

[@magnuskarpakis]

This started out as something whacky and weird, but ended in a serious, urgent note. Loved it ❤️

[@Laurod24]

Omg I love how you say then “these guys” showed up. I totally feel the emotion and frustration!

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

It’s always the British.

[@DanielGalimidi]

So what I learnt from this video is that the joke in The Simpsons about toads dominating Australia was based on a real thing.

[@timamberg7061]

The toads are still a huge problem

[@TheB0sss]

@Holden Mcgroine I mean yes, but the mice really couldn't have been avoided if we tried, unless no boat travel at all. This problem in Australia could've easily been avoided

[@IIStaffyII]

@Holden Mcgroine Humans hasn't been here since the dawn of time

[@edwina7895]

The Simpsons is a pretty accurate show. At least the older seasons. I cant speak for the newer ones.

[@mavv0589]

No you’re wrong, the simpsons predicted the toad problem in Australia

[@Jappanb]

this humans controlling nature concept reminds me of how in Chicago they were like "hey instead of us stopping pollution of water, lets engineer the river to flow the other way"

[@FromWarsaw]

„Lets go to Hawaii and get a bunch of frogs!” lmao this video is hilarious

[@latl089er]

And i oop

[@latl089er]

@Sanctus Paulus what?

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

Just so you guys all know, kangaroos are definitely a pest here, they cause a lot of road accidents, and now they are being culled a lot, which is a good thing. We often use kangaroo meat as dog food since it doesn't taste good but we have a lot and dogs don't care.

[@jasmeenmalhotra2225]

Johnny, you get a thousand points for finding the "not happy Jan" clip. That's basically an Australian icon

[@redapol5678]

My all time favourite ad 🤣

[@epanek100]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@forcastfascistfuture]

I used to work with the woman who played Jan. She was not happy when people brought it up so I never got to tell her how much of an icon she was.

[@GLOBAL-INTIFADA]

Oi honestly I was like wtf how does he know about that lol ? Did they have that ad in the US?

[@jonathanoneill9200]

@@GLOBAL-INTIFADAno, because it was for an Australian phonebook, called the Yellow Pages

[@infomatters.]

Emu War deserves it's own video.

[@sohamchikte9171]

Oversimplified search

[@shawnparadox9299]

Waiting eagerly Cuz that part where they won sounded too funny (I might regret saying that though)

[@townB]

Yes! Please do a story about the great emu war but before you do, it's pronounced "eem-you". Thankyou, every Australian 🤙

[@spudlord7743]

Everytime he said it, it hurt my soul

[@yohannesgemechu8854]

"We need to learn to share this earth rather than try to dominate it" Well said Johnny

[@damienscullytoo]

The Emu wars are one of the funniest things ever

[@zxera9702]

The most bloodiest conflict there is and you're laughing?

[@ianmcmillan6324]

@@zxera9702 lmao y’all lost to some birds that can’t even fly

[@carrstone01]

Not to the emu.

[@Daniel-pu6yk]

Ngl first time I heard of the Emu wars I thought it was a joke

[@carrstone01]

@@ianmcmillan6324 But you can’t, either.

[@justinbeloy5829]

My grandfather used to tell me "There are no solutions, only trade-offs." Well played old chap...

[@Miggy738]

Release the Emu war video. That just sounds so fascinating.

[@tmzz3609]

Texas. No coyotes, no mountain lions, no bears, no wolves. Has AR-15 Australia: can't stop a single predator. Has no AR-15

[@JavierB1988]

Love that you found the Yellow Pages ad from the 90s. Such childhood nostalgia!

[@minisaiju7699]

Time stamp?

[@thangarajmj5814]

I would honestly love to hear the victory story of the EMUS

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

I wholeheartedly second this!

[@michellegardner6815]

Your accent when you said hold my beer was actually pretty good as for the time period of Liam the farmer.

[@moniruzzaman_akash]

"The only way for long-term survival as a species is if we learn to share this Earth instead of trying always to dominate it." Loved the ending!

[@worth31]

I feel that I need a video about the Emu war

[@jacksevert3099]

I'm honestly surprised he hasn't yet considering it's an OG YT topic

[@nevynrajpillai]

Who are these emu warriors ? I need to know . We need this video .

[@GRAITOM]

WE NEED A VIDEO!

[@DandyMcCheesy]

As an Australian it’s very good to see you talking about this, heaps of other things like this going on sadly.

[@dantevale0]

Every tragedy in human history starts with "These guys" showin up

[@glorioustigereye]

Lincoln is watching a play then these guys show up

[@Drskopf]

And never adapting to nothing where they go, and in "these guys" list we can also add all their neighbors accross de sea on the western european Coast and to the east going accross to the Atlántic😆

[@harshilagrawal9930]

Yeah totally agree whole mess is them

[@bubbyzblue2576]

Everyone in the world was minding their own business, created great civilizations with rich cultures until these guys coming and started wars everywhere🙄

[@harshilagrawal9930]

@@everestaexillifek but wasn't this greedy

[@shogunego1187]

Actually most of the fauna of Australia was destroyed when the first humans arrived (basically all the mega fauna)

[@luisdanielrosavelazques2396]

The Dingos are a “recent” environmental addition to Australia (not part of the 120 million evolutionary process). They arrived with first human settlers (aboriginals) and probably displaced a previous native predator (most likely a marsupial like the Tasmanian Tiger).

[@ZimbaZumba]

They arrived much later than that, DNA analysis suggest 8,500yrs.

[@adjjal]

When they arrived is irrelevant, the point is they were fully integrated and worked within the natural ecosystem. Now the ecosystem is damaged and its only going to continue getting worse if we carry on like this

[@PJRayment]

@@adjjal "When they arrived is irrelevant, ...." Not when the claim is made that the harmonious enviroment has been like that for millions of years. "...the point is they were fully integrated and worked within the natural ecosystem." So introduced species can become part of the natural ecosystem. Okay, noted. "Now the ecosystem is damaged and its only going to continue getting worse if we carry on like this" Why? According to you it was not damaged by the dingoes. And humans are smarter than nature. A point that this video completely ignored.

[@KodaIsTerminator]

@@PJRayment their point was dingoes are already adapted into the ecosystem so there's no point talking about when they arrived

[@PJRayment]

@@KodaIsTerminator "their point was dingoes are already adapted into the ecosystem so there's no point talking about when they arrived" Then why did the opening poster talk about when they arrived? And how long does it take them to adapt?

[@mohamadraymie5525]

When his story start to get reintertwined by "these guys", the original plots slowly began to resemble with tragedies. 😂

[@jacwatson8689]

As an Aussie I loved this. I loved the throwback to “not happy jan”. Classic Aussie ad right there! Love the work as always :)

[@hvrbros8730]

If only he didn’t keep saying emu wrong

[@Peachs.Travel]

And your not upset about how he says emu? 😂😂😂 Makes me laugh everytime

[@roiq5263]

The dingoes were brought by humans. They hadn't been there for millions of years, which doesn't mean they aren't good for the environment.

[@Desguiser]

Where I live in Queensland 90% of dingoes are hybrids. Contradicting that, Fraser Island which is only a few hours away has the most pure dingoes on the Eastern Coast of Australia and maybe Australia as a whole. I distinctly remember my mum getting a dog when I was little and she was told that she was cross dingo, she lived until she was 20.

[@letsburn00]

Dingos are just dogs anyway. They are not a native species, they are introduced by humans.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

@@letsburn00 Introduced like 4000 years ago. Not really comparable to modern introduced species.

[@letsburn00]

@@ninjafruitchilled it's exactly comparable. Native species surviving for millions of years, humans come in and destroy it all. Foxes killing native creatures for 200 years isnt ok. That we can at least name the guy just means we know who to blame. Im aware of the concept of rewilding, which is interesting. Though I doubt we'll see many marsupial lions running around soon.

[@Desguiser]

@@letsburn00 They are endemic to Australia, so yes, they are native.

[@letsburn00]

@@Desguiser by that logic, foxes and rabbits are native. They all should be removed if possible, Along with the Brumbies. Let's be frank, we really really screwed up this island, we might as well start trying to fix it.

[@sanitarymailbox-8023]

It continues to amaze me how Johnny reinforces the fact that he's my favorite KZbinr/journalist with every single video he drops

[@GRAITOM]

He really is my favorite journalist!

[@Microtherion]

It's a great video, and I agree with almost everything he said. If no-one minds a slightly long and possibly-pedantic footnote (?), though, I always find it slightly misleading when someone says that ancient (especially pre-state or pre-civilised) humans lived 'in harmony' with nature - they lived in something more like 'creative tension' with nature. Hunter-gatherers *did* cause multiple extinction events. They had and have a far better and 'deeper' understanding of nature, and are better 'custodians' on the whole: my point is only that neither they nor us had or have 'everything' right. Our mistakes have been much greater, but we need to learn from the entirety of history/pre-history, and not stereotype our own ancestors, or more 'exotic' cultures we rightly admire...

[@JohanAndersson78]

As Eddie Izzard said: "Well, do you have a flag? No!? Then the land is mine. Cause I have a flag!" Also, yes we want an episode of the great Australian emu wars!

[@GLOBAL-INTIFADA]

Lol i thought that "Not happy Jan" ad was only in Australia was tripping when seen it playing 😂

[@alasdairmacdonald9838]

Wow someone from overseas manage to incorporate the "not happy Jan" clip into an already great piece of content. Thumbs up from the land down under!

[@alexayyanushevski9222]

Amazing how Johnny can make literally every subject interesting with his magical touch! Waiting for the emu war video with anticipation :)

[@jacksevert3099]

I think Johnny is amazing precisely because of his interesting topics! Like if johnny was a beauty guru I probably wouldn't watch no offense to YT beauty gurus

[@kaffka4753]

Thanks for always putting subtitle in your video. I m not a fluent english speaker so having the subtitle really helps

[@thex2985]

Johnny Harris: * makes fun of Australia for losing a war to some birds* Those birds: *WALKING TANKS*

[@Artichoked1]

As an Australian I crack up every time you say 'Emoos' instead of Emu.

[@annemariewan1]

Same

[@karlmuller3690]

@@annemariewan1 - I don't think it's funny at all, I'm just left SMH.

[@darealist690]

@@karlmuller3690 u mad

[@annemariewan1]

@@karlmuller3690 its an opinion and i respect that.

[@karlmuller3690]

@@annemariewan1 - It's NOT an "opinion", it's either a form of illiteracy, or a speech impediment. Or perhaps, and only just perhaps, it could be a more arrogant form of "American exceptionalism", i.e - "I'm American, there for, I needn't look up, or inform myself as to the correct way of pronouncing the "National Bird" of someone else's country". It would be the equivalent of an Australian KZbin Content Creator, not bothering to inform Him/Herself, as to the correct way of pronouncing "Bald Eagle", or even more challenging, a word/placename, with an American First Nations People origin, like say where a young Man from a well known American Political Dynasty, drove his car of a bridge, and drowned a young lady, in the very early hours of the mourning, with a STILL unenxplained .....oh, look it up your selves, but the place name is, drum roll please .... Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts.

[@birinderwarraich1179]

Johnny Make videos So good that i will literally watch an entire 35 minute video of his Explaining How life started

[@chalimubanga4696]

Am I the only who gets super excited when I see a Johnny Harris notification pop up.. You really inspire me alot man.. Do something about Zambia🇿🇲

[@AnalystTosh]

The title for that one should be “How the Chinese are colonizing Zambia”

[@mattearenzi8972]

no

[@AutonomousPlayground]

@@AnalystTosh How china is influencing Africa with neo-colonial practice: vital video to be made, so many counties now permanently indebted to China for infrastructure projects, and paying with their own natural, finite resources. I hope we will see something like that, if not, perhaps I will consider making something like that, even though i usually work with migration topics.

[@sophisticatedthumb5364]

@@AutonomousPlayground lol 80% of african debt is from the west

[@metro25production]

I watched some videos on this, before the dingos they had a rabbit problem, the first fence was built to keep the rabbits spread in the begining of the 20th century

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Me too, I thought it was a rabbit fence and as the bloke above said, Dingo's are not truly indigenous either.

[@kuba_sw]

I like how trying to mess with Australian eco-system just triggers a domino effect of doom.

[@edenflorence3001]

Such a relevant and well told piece ! I also think Johnny would find the aboriginal Australian practice of fire burning (indigenous fire stick burning in order to protect land before and after bush fires) really interesting. I’m Māori (indigenous New Zealander) so if you’re ever making videos about New Zealand I would love to help out. Last but not least yes to the Emu wars !!

[@brmbkl]

+1 for collaborative journalism

[@mysticwishes13]

Love the reference to not happy jan 😂 as an Australian, I knew kangaroos were a problem but didn’t know it was because of a damn fence.

[@letsburn00]

The video actually misses the issue. Since Dingos are actually an introduced species and aren't native at all. The natural predator of the Roo is Tasmanian tigers and the marsupial Lion, both of which were driven extinct by humans, either directly, indirectly or just from Dingos killing them all.

[@DDBurnett1]

@@letsburn00 Yeah, that's kind of a glaring error in the video. But still, dingoes apparently filled the same niche that thylacines had occupied on the mainland and efforts to control the dingoes in modern times left that niche empty and allowed kangaroos to reproduce unchecked.

[@letsburn00]

@@DDBurnett1 True, but so have cats and foxes and people don't forget they are introduced. There is an argument that feral cats would simply growing larger and more tiger like to fill the niche left as well. The Roo population also is heavily effected by grazers creating pumped water sources, so Roos don't suffer during droughts. I've been out at a cattle station and seen about 50:50 roos and cattle lounging around the little pond the pump has made. Just because a new equilibrium has been found doesn't mean that it's natural. Apparently much more of Australia was Forrested before humans arrived. I actually wonder how long it would take the Tassie devil to begin evolving to be much larger (and eating all the rabbits) if we managed to get rid of all the foxes, cats and Dingos on the mainland. If ultra cheap hunting drones become a thing, it's actually a believable future.

[@karinamartinez5503]

Honestly the end of this video , the words your speaking has so much true value. I appreciate hearing this so much and I’m very glad you have such a large audience so people can open there eyes.

[@bernadmanny]

Oh a "Not happy Jan!" reference, classic