When I was a lad in Australia, rabbits were referred to as “Underground Mutton” and it was folklore that rabbits had saved the working class in the Great Depression. In my youth you could buy two rabbits, skinned and gutted for 25 cents.
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit. In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly. Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
If I lived in Australia, I would gather all the camels together and send them all to countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait with the financial support of the state because these countries import wild camels from Djibouti because they love camel meat that has lived in the wild. I think an average wild camel costs 1.200 Riyal, that is 507 Australian Dollars. The Arab countries I mentioned import camels from Djibouti at a price of 275 Saudi Arabian Riyals, which costs 116 Australian Dollars. Arabs do not like sheep and cattle meat because those lands have always been arid throughout history, and since no other meat-eating animals other than camels and goats have grown, their meat culture has focused on these creatures. In fact, the prices of red coloured healthy camels with a single hump go up to 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal, which they usually buy for showing off. 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal is worth 4.200 Australian Dollars. I guess my biggest misfortune in life is that I was not born in Australia? NOTE: We Turks are not Arabs and we almost never eat camel meat and do not ride camels. I said this because there are many nations in the world who think we are Arabs. Avustralya'da tavşanların yediği mısır, havuç, lahana gibi tüm sebzeleri onlar için hazırladığım tuzaklara koyarak tavşanları toplar, sağlıklı genlere sahip olanları 30 gün besledikten sonra sadece 100 bin dişi olarak serbest bırakırdım. 100 bin erkeği ise tarımın olmadığı yerlere götüreceğim ama orada yaşamaları için ortamlar yaratacağım. Neden onları yaşatıp yetiştirmeyi tercih ettiğimi sorarsanız, tavşan eti Kuzey Amerika ve Avrupa'da tüketilen bir et türüdür ve kürkü de oldukça değerlidir. 30 gün bekletmemin nedeni ise tüm popülasyonun benim kontrolüm altında olması gerektiği için yuvalardaki yavru tavşanların ölmesidir.
The problem with rabbits in Australia has a lot to do with our crap government. Lots of people would like to hunt them for a feed but are not aloud due to stupid land care laws. As a bow hunter I still hunt along creeks and take about 4-5 rabbits a week even if it is illegal I don't care. I make sure I get my feed and follow the laws of nature and not the stupid government.
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Not true, you can't eat rabbits anymore because of mixo. They are poisoned. In the 1960's we lived off rabbit often, there were lot's of people out rabbiting at night, there were traps everywhere. People could get paid for rabbit pelts (skins). When the disease in the 1990's was released, it worked pretty well for a while. We are only just starting to see rabbits around again.Plagues are seasonal, they come and go, but cats being controlled has enabled the mice plagues to get worse.
In my Australian state pet rabbits are illegal. I worked in a pet shop. A customer came in asking for a pet rabbit. I told him we don’t sell them as they are illegal. He pointed to our display fridge and said, “but you sell rabbit food?”. I told him that wasn’t rabbit food, it was the rabbit. So I guess we did actually sell rabbits. Kangaroos too for that matter. Bone free and nicely packed.
I loved the taste of the rabbits where I used to hunt them in the Eastern Sierras, between Bishop CA and Mammoth Lakes, near Crowley Lake. Their primary food was Sagebrush and Alfalfa! Yummy!!! Wish I could try Kangaroo, but then I'm a Chef so I want to try every type of food, except super-hot peppers and chilis as my stomach just won't take the spiciness any longer. ;)
We use electric fences laid on the ground. There are different settings for them to be set off according to your specific infestation type. They kill a huge amount of mice at one time and its cheap and clean. No poisons.
very very funny,,heres a fact.. roo meat is rare, no one eats it,,i do,, cos its roo.. but,, millions go into dog, cat food. as, not recomended for human consumption.. my cat gets roo mince with tuna, & a bit of tined cat food.. roo mince,, $11. kg.. tuna 400 gms, $00.90c
A few years ago in Americas there was a piolot plant that took slaughterhouse waste and turned it into gasoline and a high quality liquid plant fertilizer. Emu, rabbit, frog, and cammel could be caought and processed for food and the leftovers turedn into gas and fertilizer.
The emu war was in the 30s during a drought and they were invading farm crops. But theyre not a pest. In fact theyre a protected species and are on the coat of arms along with the kangaroo. Which is also protected but actually is considered a pest. There are more kangaroos here than people.
apparently the Emu and Kangaroo are on the Australian coat of arms because neither of them can move backward..... they have to hop or step forwards@@kerrydoutch5104
My sister bought 4 rabbits. In 2 yrs she had like 2000 rabbits. Sold 3 bucks each to 1 buyer for meat. We kept all animal food in old freezers impossible for mice to enter. We kept all food in the house in secure room and buckets. If mice find food they will stay and more come. Never have food that mice can get into. Keep grass around buildings kept short and no junk laying around.
As a kid we got 3 rabbits. The first litter my rabbit had was 20, 18 survived. A year later there were 110+ rabbits. a 70 lb. bale of alfalfa would last them about a week. I think you get the picture.
@@ImSaixe Actually they were tasty and no, they don't taste like chicken. I'm not sure if I prefer roasted or stewed, both are good. I wouldn't recommend them for Easter dinner. Some people are pretty sensitive about that.
@@fredericsouthworth2707 We didn't feed grain to rabbits which leads to lean rabbits which is lean meat to start with. There is a bit of 'you are what you eat' in there. Grain fed deer has less flavor than wild grazed. I don't like when bambi gets into juniper, spruce or pine but I love when they browse on sage brush. I have eaten varying hare and those bony jack rabbits with a slightly stronger flavor than domestic.
@@spagooter1807 IN Alberta BUT we had a pretty bad go around with CWD up here as well. There are still pockets out there including where I consider the best bambi to come from. Mind you my 2nd favorite salmon ends up just north of Japan (Fukushima polluted) in their 4 year ocean journey. It's like I'm not allowed to enjoy my favorite wild foods.
I live in Northern Virginia in the US. My backyard is full of trees and other plants and I wake up each morning to the sound of many birds, including nests of young birds. The other day I saw a long black snake and now I hear no chirping birds.
This sounds very logical until you realize that rabbits and foxes know each other as enemies and rabbits have a better knowledge and defense against foxes than the native Australian species. The same goes for mice and cats. Because of this, it is quite often very easier for foxes and cats to hunt other animals than their well-known prey. So, it turns out that the foxes and cats have much more prey to hunt (and easier to catch), and the rabbits and mice have an easier time, being hunt more seldom. In this case, all 4 species multiply exponentially. The biggest losers are the native species. This problem could be solved by itself after native species go extinct, which will make the 4 invasive species hunt each other more often, thus regulating their populations.
Geelong Advertiser (Victoria), Wednesday, December 28, 1859--True to his instincts as a good sportsman and therefore a good colonist, Mr Thomas Austin has just supplied a considerable addition to the sporting livestock (we cannot use the shorter word "game") of the colony. His contribution, which arrived per the Lightning, consists of 66 partridges, a couple of dozen of wild rabbits, and a few hares. The whole lot were remarkably well during the voyage, only one of the hares having died, and but a tithe of the partridges sharing the same fate. We trust, however, that Mr. Austin will use due caution in keeping his hares in proper duresse; otherwise, they will become as destructive a pest to the farmer here as they are in the old country.
I was working on a farm when that last great plague of mice came through the Wagga Wagga region. We had a huge number of hay bales, about 12,000, from a great crop that year. EVERY. SINGLE. BALE. Was destroyed. By mice.
Wiradjuri word, Waga. It means "a place to dance". I grew up in Wagga, and I've been through several plagues. I'm now in Leeton. Don't call our place names silly, if you don't want us starting on the weird names in your country.
@@user-vf9ex4xl2p we ended up with two feral cats living in the hay shed, probably drawn by the mice, but by that time we had already lost most of our bales.
No wonder almost all Autralian Men looks like a Hunter. Imagine waking up having a gator down at the floor, Whistling Spiders crawling on the ceiling, Red Foxes in the Kitchen.
New Zealand also has a problem with introduced species, two of which originated in Australia. These are the possum, the cute fluffy one, not the horror show US oppossum, and the wallaby. The possum is now well established and despite bounties being put on them, being hunted for their fur, (which has excellent insulating properties when made into a possim/wool blend material) and currently air dropped poison baits is currently being used against them. Wallabies are not so so common at this time but are spreading with increasing rapidity and are also considered a noxious animal. Sonperhaps it should not have been unexpected that when asked by an Australian conservation group for NZ to take and re home some koalas displaced by bushfires, NZ was not as receptive to the idea as they may have hoped. New Zealand has no native mammals other than two types of rare bat so is very vulnerable to ecological impact by these animals.
'New Zealand has no native mammals other than two types of rare bat so is very vulnerable to ecological impact by these animals.'. And consequently, because of its 'kill everything that is not native' attitude, NZ has the most boring, uninteresting wildlife known to this world. 😥👿
Being an old Canadian farm boy who had a grampa that raised rabbits for food and fur. He did the butchering and tanning. There were always skins being stretched and processed in the barn. Quite a few years ago I read an article from spca telling parents not to give bunnies to kids at Easter because shelters were getting flooded by rabbits. My take on this is, give them bunnies on Easter then these are ready to eat on thanksgiving. An old farm boys take on this.
European NON FARMERS all used to raise bunnies for meat, the grass on the side of roads belonged to everybody so they were fed with that, my dad raised each year 6 pigs and plenty of Dutch bunnies, slaugthered a bunny every second Saturday. We butchered one pig ourselves in autumn and sold the 5 others to the butcher in the village.Our pigs were fed with kitchen and bakery leftovers. By the way the short eared Bunnies dig holes and long eared long hind legged rabbits don't , also the guy spoke about Camels in Australia as this are all DROMEDARY'S with only one bumb as Camels have 2 bumbs. Also Swiss are the wealthiest nation and still grow veggies instead of lawns even at high altitudes, I think with the present TrudeauFlation and Scam-Carbon Tax its time to start growing veggies and raising bunnies and chickens even in Canada ad thinking to make Turdope a Drama Teacher again in some prison.
They sell some rabbit commercially but it is rare. I’m 63, and as a boy mum would crumb and shallow fry them. Easy to eat like fried chicken and very nice…but too many people won’t eat “cute” animals.
@@colinr1960 In Europe on open markets bunnies are still sold ..(wild rabbits(long ears-long hind legs=wild) are tough and you have to make venison, domesticated bunnies are tender thats the difference, also always buy the bunnies with fur on their legs, often cats were sold as bunnies...I hunted wild rabbits in Canada and used to make venison with them...(shot their heads of with a 30-02, otherwise nothing is left).
Cant count how many of my PETS got invited to dinner ! But my bunny HERBY got to live very well and did a few tricks . Lived and died a bunny life when neighbors coonhound tore up his cage and killed him . Farm life .. my cousin had pet chickens and I never saw the point of that logic ,but was later diagnosed with schizophrenia . RIP Bobby
There actually is a way that Australia is dealing with cane toads, in which snakes and birds over generations have learnt to not consume the cane toad completely as it's venom would kill it, but instead devour the gooey underbelly, leaving them unharmed.
Crows in particular have learned to flip and eviscerate the toads, and this is welcome news since air rifles and rowdy teenage boys have been vilified and banned.
Rabbits are also an invasive species in the UK and its appears that the invasive rabbits in the UK were taken to Australia as an invasive species. Theres only so much rabbit stew you can eat in a lifetime, its lovely but not every single day 😂
Rabbits are native to Spain -actually the word "Hispalis" from which the word "Spain" or Hispania comes means "land of rabbits." Romans took them to Britain.
You can't eat exclusively rabbit meat though. I can't remember what it is, but eating too much rabbit causes a deficiency of some necessary protein or enzyme and can cause liver failure and death. Also, most of our wild rabbits carry myxomatosis and are therefore inedible. If you were to trap or hunt rabbits, which I did as a kid, like 1 out of 30 dead bunnies can be eaten safely.
The same thing is happening with feral cats in El Paso, Texas. The City refuses to take action and is protecting the cats. In the mean time my neighbor is up to 15 cats which all use my yard aa a litter box and which I have to clean. And the smell!
In Kentucky they have a way of keeping neighbors animals off their property if the neighbors refuses to take care of the issue themselves, especially if the animal is destructive. And then they just don't tell the neighbor, everybody stays friends.
I have heard a wildlife biologist in the U.S. say that feral house cats are probably the most destructive animal there is. They will kill everything in their hunting area from small insects to the largest mammals possible. When that area is empty they move to a new area and start over again, and they are reproducing all of the time.
Yeah, I live on a rez and we have “rez dogs” and if I’m being honest, I’m glad we have them. Because we need mice for spiders, we need spiders for insects. When we had quite a few feral cats outside my apartment, we got a lot more spiders. Come the rez dogs, they equaled the playing field of evolution. I just don’t like the sound of cats getting man handled by dogs. It’s very sad and traumatizing.
@@Jarzula I have heard horror stories about the Rez dogs, and how they are gathered up an executed in mass. I don’t understand why reservations can’t take better care of their animals. I’ve also seen them take an entire herd of horses to be sold at auction. It really changed my outlook about Native Americans.
The real issue with cats in Australia & to a certain extent at least globally, but I'm not sure to what extent, is the toxins in their saliva. For Australian mammals & birds at least, even a scratch is a death sentence, so many animals will get away, but they will all be dead within 24 hours from the toxins in the teeth & claws It's really not just ferals that do it either, pet cats are possibly an even bigger issue, due to higher numbers than ferals & they still hunt to play & again, a tiny nick & the animal's dead, even if not eaten. btw for pet cats, for the owners who refuse to keep their cats inside & be responsible, there is an alternative that appears to work for song birds at least, those bright, colourful hair scrunchies from the 1980's, worn around their necks, near to eliminate successful stalking of songbirds. Songbirds are VERY colour aware. Cats can learn to move without activating bells, but they can't learn to avoid songbirds noticing the bright colours on the scrunchies, no matter what they do, songbirds are just evolutionarily programmed to ALWAYS notice & pay attention to & investigate bright colours, unlike bells where they pay attention for a short time, then dismiss it as nothing
Let me guess this biologist is a Democrat right ? The Democrats seem to have a odd obsession with castrating male cats and humans 🤦 But have no problem with drug dealers or homeless people freezing to death. Go to any Democrat City and you will see a ghetto and no I'm not a republican I'm just sick of hearing about how CAT'S are destroying America. And does your biologist cousin also believe Covid came from a wet market LOL 😂
Feral goats are a huge problem as well, if you drive between Burke and Broken Hill you will see hundreds of them. They almost introduced a snake that is able to eat the cane toads, thankfully someone with common sense stopped it. With the rabbits my dad when working on a sheep station in the fifties, used to just point the rifle in the paddock and shoot and would get a rabbit without having to aim.
In Canada wild rabbits (varying hare) turn white in the winter. This color change happens based on hours of daylight. In the late 70's we had really late snowfall that year and the rabbits had turned white before there was snow on the ground. Driving down the highway I saw 'a snowdrift' in the ditch. As I approached the 'snow drift' started moving across the highway. Picture 2 or 3 thousand rabbits crossing a highway in front of you while you are going 60MPH (100 KPH). Scary stuff.
I thought goat numbers were down now, due to farmers, during the last big drought dealing with the loss of income by actually bothering to go& round up the wild goats & sell them in the place of the sheep they normally sell. Same with water buffalo in the NT, numbers dropped when price in Vietnam rose enough to make it worthwhile to actually round them up & ship them there for $$$$
@@AutoCrete that would’ve been an interesting sight to see, picture this, thousands of vultures at a garbage dump in India. A moving carpet of birds is a sight I’ll never forget
Australian people don't eat them because of experiment done to them by the scientist to reduce the population of rabbit which might be harmful to humans
I’m American tradesman, and we raise rabbits as sustainable protein, Joel salatin style tractors make it nearly free, and you get more/year out of 3 breeding rabbits then raising a steer. We also hunt & garden (a lot!) so rabbits are just a sustainable supplement
You wanna try wiping out millions of invasive creatures on a continent the same size of north America, without wiping out native species. Also saying "any war" is a bit of a stretch and kinda disrespectful
Hm. And how is America doing with the hundreds of invasive species in their borders.... Oh, most of your population Doesn't Even Know; literally just the collective efforts of volunteers.
The poisonous toads have become such a problem to the few predators that tackle them that training native predators to not bite toads has become mainstream.
Lol! They're not trained, mate. They learned over time and passed the new information to successive generations. It's a very good example of evolution by natural selection, or survival of the fittest. There's no Magpie School of Eating Cane Toads safely...well, yet anyway.
Went to Australia 🇦🇺 in 2004 … had a wonderful experience, saw many fantastic places met loads a great people. Australia is still a beautiful country worth traveling to.
The Camel drinking from the water Bottle was so funny, love your channel😅🐪🐫 And yes Im an Aussie living in the most Isolated City in the World Perth 💕 I love Queensland but the Cane Toads freak me out so I could never live there🐸 we have little frogs in W.A they sound sweet and I live near a Reserve that has Kangaroos roam freely with their little baby joeys Adorable to see😇
Some are surprised by how many times humans have screwed up in Australia. But honestly I'm not, the number of very stupid people in the world doing very stupid things will never shock me. More so since few ever consider the long term results of their choices.
People have screwed up just as much, if not more, in other places as well. The unique ecology of Australia makes the effects especially obvious, though.
Thank you for addressing that a huge part of Australia's invasive species problem is the lack of large apex predators. People tend to forget that tens of thousands of years is not that long in terms of geography or evolution, and the food chains we have today are as fragmented now as they were when those species disappeared. Chances are if megalania, quinkana and thylocaleo were still around camels, horse, pigs and donkey would not be as a big of a problem. And studies have shown that cats and foxes avoid areas where huge concentrations of Tasmanian devils reside. That's why I am all for the careful reintroduction of Australian species still extant in other places. Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced to New South Whales, and people have pushed for the reintroduction of Komodo Dragons into habitats there fossils have been found. P.S. It's also good to note, dingos are naturalized species that were brought over by early Aboriginals, and it's believed they drove the mainland thylacine to extinction.
Yeah... but reintroducing a somewhat accurate copy of megalania wouldn't be a very good idea, since they would probably start eating both livestock and people
@@ppals3345 Though attacks by komodo dragons have happened, they are not considered man eaters. In fact, attacks are rare. Only 24 attack happened between 1974 and 2012 alone, and only 5 were fatal. Even then, most of these reported attack were the dragons being defensive. So much so they actively avoid people and can be easily deterred with nothing more than a stick if they do approach you. This is believed to be because we are not their natural prey, nor do we look like one. As for livestock, that's not a difficult remedy. Adult dragons are unable to climb, so adding a thin, smooth sheet of wood or metal along any fencing would be more than enough to keep them from climbing over.
@@1fishmob you do realize i'm talking about a 3.5-7 meter long extinct venomous lizard, right? i said megalania, not komodo dragon. if scientists were to bring back megalania, it would definetly not be deterred by a stick
Yeah, Plagues are a real problem here, I have had to deal with a few bug plagues, the most notable two were what’s we refer to as the centipede plague and beetle plague. This was only something in my general area.
"Nihaari" a famous delicious curry dish made of Camel meat.. very popular in India and Pakistan and of course many other regions.. might be a profitabl proposition for Australia..
I'm sure you covered them in other videos, but feral pigs are probably the most destructive invasive species at the moment, with about 25 M of them and in the NT water buffalo are pretty destructive too.
Water buffalo have pretty much beef culled because of TB and the risk that this poses to the cattle industry which is big business in northern Australia.
@@stevemeredith9022 Thanks for that. I lived in Darwin about 25 years ago and they were a big problem then, but I'd say they are a lot easier to cull than pigs.
You still can't even have a pet rabbit in my state in Australia to this day. Camel meat and milk is sold overseas but it is still a small industry. Our biggest problem is the distance we are from the rest of the world. We transport a huge number of camels to the middle east every year for races, food, etc. I remember as a child in Queensland, the home of cane toads, kicking about 20 of them away from the porch light each night when I got home. They are rarer now but only because they are travelling across the Northern Territory in vast numbers. They've developed super hoppers that are scouts. No joke. These toads have much longer legs and can travel faster and "scout" out good breeding grounds and food sources. Scientists only discovered them a few years ago. Cats are a problem but cats are very regulated now. They must be kept indoor at night, every one who owns a cat much register them, and everyone I know who has a cat has neutered them. Cats are usually sold neutered these days. Of course, there are useless humans who don't control their cats properly but they are becoming rarer as we've all realised the problems cats have caused. It's just difficult to eradicate them in the wild. I find it amazing when I regularly watch US videos of people who found a rescue kitten in the street. You just don't see that is Australia any more. Thanks for the great video. The other invasive species you forgot to mention is the kangaroo. It's not introduced but their numbers have to be culled occasionally as they reproduce so fast. The biggest problem in Australia is our dry climate and sparse vegetation, making it difficult it difficult for so many species to thrive, or even survive.
I have watched RU-vid videos on Middle Eastern cooking. Camel is an enormous process meant for celebratory dinners. Several peeps involved. They need more because it looked delish!
To some food is just food. I have a friend who raises rats. They are on a controlled diet and don't run wild. He eats them. It started with raisins rabbits. He ate a lot of rabbit growing up. So one day he wanted to know what rat tasted like and went to some Asian country and visited a village that ate them. Well long story short he is a really really good cook and you wouldn't know what you were eating unless you were told.
LMBFAO! Truly, “lessons are repeated until learned”! I’d eat a camel steak. Llama is good, too. (The answer to male llama aggression is “dinner is ready”) I’ve studied the problem of invasive, non- native animals, plants, and insects much of my life. And all I can do is shake my head. Humans are such idiots.
Hello, They are pronounced, "eem-yous" (not "ee-moos!) Australia's brush-tailed possums are invasive introduced pests in NZ! So they kill them and use the fur in socks, jumpers, etc-mixed with wool.
yes the aussy possum was introduced into NZ to start a fur trade, in the mid 1800s. Well they took off in a huge population explosion and literally stripped NZ native forests foliage off, to the extent that a lot of it was killed of by the possums. So, that caused a "kill them all" policy.....shooting, trapping, poisoning by amateur and pro possum hunters.......... and the possums are still breeding faster than anyone can kill them..... and they are also in the most remote places, where it is hard to reach. They are also a vector for TB, which affect cattle, deer and pigs...... so farmers of those animals are not happy with possums either.
Yes! the rabbits in Australia are a problem but Australia is still a pretty amazing place and the rabbits have had their positive impact - during the great World Wide depression of the 1930's the rabbits were a source of food for the millions of and they were a source of food for the unemployed - something the native fauna could never have provided and one of the great Rugby League teams in the Sydney metropolitan area is called "The Rabbitohs" - named after the individuals who hunted the rabbit in order to keep the body and soul together. Same could not be said for the cat and the fox who are probably even greatly threats on the AUSTRALIAN ECOLOGY.
Rabbits are not a good source of food though(their meat is too lean) - unless one supplements it with fats and carbs; Otherwise you become sick quit soon.
I'm pretty sure if folks are hungry enough they'd eat cats. I can't recommend it though. They taste very hairy. Also they bite back. Seriously though cats while adorable & cuddly are murderous little psychos who will hunt even when not hungry. I've seen one from the outback & it was amazing how a normal housecat went back to their wild roots. They were also absolutely vicious. In a way I was happy that one got away. But they're so bad for the environment that I fully support them hunting them. I just ask that you do your best to give them a quick clean death. I love cats but there's places that they very much do not belong. If kept inside the damage can be mitigated. But there's also places, generally islands, where I fully support cats being fully banned outright. But I couldn't stand living there. So I don't. I also keep my cats inside unless leashed. Because I don't want them hurt or killing the few songbirds around.
@@Nirrrina We have a terrible problem with feral cats, here in Cyprus. Many cat owners just allow their cats to run free and don't generally spay/neuter them, despite having an island-wide, free service provided by many animal welfare charities. Why wouldn't people take advantage of this service? The majority of locals here are Greek Orthodox. They have a similar attitude towards 'fixing' their pets as Roman Catholics do towards birth control and abortion.
"When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death." Seriously though, Australia must have fantastic hunting opportunities. In my part of Canada it's virtually impossible to feed yourself via hunting, but with no hunting limits on so many invasive species, Australia has to be the opposite. You could feed yourself entirely through hunting.
You could if it wasn’t so highly regulated, depending on which state you live its almost impossible. Gun use, bow use and even slingshots are regulated or banned, fresh water fishing and shell fish is regulated, trapping is regulated and some types outright banned, sea fish size and catch amount is regulated, some states are much worse then others.
@@alyssaoconnor Oh... so unlike us, it has the animals, but just like us, everything's massively overregulated. Probably it's the food industry pushing the government to implement these rules. Imagine if people could feed themselves... the horror.
@@alyssaoconnor we also don’t have public land it’s all national and state parks and no hunting is allowed in them unless your lucky enough to know a farmer that will give u access your shit outta luck
I'm from country Victoria, Australia. Hunting around this area is amazing. We have a variety of deer, some wild goats and a ton of rabbits. Huge sambar deer population in my area. And so many rabbits that I've had rabbit cooked every way possibly. One of the best recipients I came across was pork and fennel sausage taken out of the case and stuffed into the rabbit, the wrapped the rabbit in bacon. Classic French way with white wine, butter and cream is my second choice.
Here in New York we see cottontail rabbits from spring through summer but as time goes on the numbers dwindle. By the time rabbit season opens we don't see many at all. There are a lot of coyotes here.
@@fckthisalias I've lived in South Africa half my life and now I've been in Canada the other half of my 65 yrs!! And whenever a problem has arisen about too many rats or too many raccoons the government sorts it out quickly and us..the people..all do the follow up and the problem animal gets mostly sorted out. So I believe the government could not have acted quick enough right from the beginning and NOW r not spending the money it's gonna take to do the job once and for all...UNTILL it reaches there houses..then maybe!!
I guess rats are an unfortunate reality of the wheat industry, not just for Australia. Nice to know the flour, and other wheat products, we’re using is full of rat fur, dander, urine, and droppings. And since the rats are constantly screwing, rat seme… Gives it a seasoned, nutty flavor. 😂
Unfortunately, we now have a new pest, the Varroa Mite which harms our bee industry The Government was going around destroying keepers hives in order to stop the spread, but it was all for nothing They recently advised that it is so out of control that there is nothing more they can do and we now just have to live with the problem Small comfort for those keepers who's livelihoods were destroyed
The Perth Inquirer and Commercial News, Wednesday, May 11, 1859; Importation of British Game-The following is from the Geelong Advertiser of March 29: "Mr Ogilvie has just received (consigned to Mr Thomas Austin) a fine lot of English game, accompanied by a careful experienced gamekeeper, both from Somersetshire, per the Pioneer. The original consignment was very considerable - about 100 partridges, a few hares, the pheasants which have safely arrived, and some more which have died on the voyage out, and some blackbirds and thrushes. Unfortunately, the partridges could not stomach the brine. They all sickened and died before they had been three months out at sea. The hares, too, died, but more from fretfulness at want of room than of any specific disease. Several of the pheasants and of the singing birds died also, but 28 pheasants (pretty evenly mated) and two blackbirds and a thrush have landed safe and hearty."
As a US citizen, I understand. Australia is a continent on its own and has unique wildlife. Florida is being overrun by pythons and iguanas, invasive. Australia needs to defend its own.
Introduced in the 19th century to carry goods to and from remote outback stations (ranches/farms to you). Once the internal combustion engine proved its reliability in the 1920's most were set loose. Already adapted to desert areas they've done well. They're also the only wild camels in the world and are disease free.
Growing up our favourite pasttime was hunting hares and small gazelles. We used to chase them at a sprint for 4-5 kilometres nonstop. Nowadays I can barely jog 2 kilometres. I think we hunted them to extinction too
I am Indian, I met an Aussie tourist a few years back who complained why we Indians have stray dogs & some cows roaming around in India. I asked him if I should get started on Kangaroos, Foxes, Rabbits & other animals roaming free all over Australia - he stared at me for 2 seconds & mumbled beneath his breath "never mind".
More people die from Rabies from dog bites in India than in any other country in the world!!! A few years back a British tourist was bitten by a puppy on the beaches of Goa. She didn't think about Rabies until she showed up at the ER in the UK. By that time it was too late to save her. They put her in a coma and waited for her to die. Unfortunately most tourists are not aware of the acute Rabies problem in India, if they did they would not visit India. That, and the lack of hygiene make it dangerous for international tourists visiting India. I fail to understand your point????
@@Dan-xx5jq i am from India too buddy , you are right on this point , our friend here doesnt understand the difference between feralbanimals roaming freely and INVASIVE species !!! Yes , the cows are a hazard for traffic and yes the dogs are the carrier of rabies !
Lol being in wild and being in front of your car motorcycles , on roads streets is very different and Australia is very less populated and have way more free land for animals to live in wild 😂 another indian who will get triggered if someone points out the reality. The Australian said never mind because he was smart and knew that it ok to be silent than argue with someone like you (aka fool) and that arguing will only results in more of bullshit from your end😂
My family on my father's side, survived the hard depression years because they were not too proud to trap rabbits running wild on their properties. The only thing they had to worry about then were worms! Myxomatosis wasn't introduced until the 1950's. It's a disgusting way to try and handle a Problem. I should have realized how COVID would have been handled based on this performance. My illusions about the country that I so loved have been dissolved. I'm a disillusioned Australian. How have we turned into such a idiotic mob of compliant lemmings? And they in intellectual circles, still haven't learnt. How dumb can you allow yourself to get?
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit. In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly. Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
There’s only one that can be outright deadly to humans and that’s the Sydney funnel web spider. They live in the ground and interactions are rare but do happen although I can’t remember the last time anyone died from a bite. Red backs might kill young or elderly people but the worst is the White tail spider. They are small and like crawling into folded linen or clothing so interactions are more frequent. The venom they inject has a necrotic effect and causes the surrounding skin and muscle tissue to die and rot away.
Every time when you mentioned when and how these evasive things were introduced to Australia, it always started with European or 1st colony of British settlers (aka ships containing prisoners, those that survived the voyage.). The human race has always caused its own problems. They needed camels to carry cargo and once they weren’t needed, they were let loose to fend for itself and they did great on their own until they became a problem and then they were hunted down and killed. Mankind doesn’t think before it goes ahead with a plan in these incidences. I think Australia is a beautiful place to live, especially along the coast, but I would never live there.
@@brakmaster Holy hell man learn some history. Where you you think all the megafauna went. Aboriginals arrived 50k years ago and Megafauna THEN declined. Now they are gone. Lets pretend the humans didn't do it. Then 'we' humans introduced dingoes. Do we have a species kill rate of one of the only predators in the country? Why were there almost no Thylacine's left in Tasmania when white man arrived? Human competition. Humans with attack dogs. Humans who burnt down forest with such a flagrant disregard for the environment that now almost the only trees we have left is the fire tolerant species. Overall the Aboriginals did FAR FAR more damage than the Brits did... but that's mostly because they had a long period to screw the environment over. The Brits just did it faster. What is the megafauna kill rate? Like 96% or something. Thats BRUTAL!
This is crazy considering Australia also has the most number of natural predators like snakes, spiders, Crocs etc.. looks like they could use a lot more lol
@@cherrelleg8276 exactly someone in another comment talked about introducing Kamado dragons. From videos I've seen those things are freaking nuts, and I really think they would attack humans..... And at the end of the day how much food are 5 kamodos gonna eat? 10 rabbits a day?
the new invasion is pretend refugee,s.. they take over towns. spot the ausie.. i say, give them a gun, send them back to fight for there country,,cos they damn well wont fight for aus..eh..
@@mitchweber7868 - A 4300 lb lizzard needs a 12ga shotgun. I have little ones here and I promise you that monster will get the business end of Mr Mossberg. I am glad those bastards are extinct, Yes they will eat your dogs, your cats, a whole goat, and your kids.
We have a lot of small predators and virtually no large land based predators at all. For example if we go camping in Australia we take precautions against snakes, spiders and insects whereas in America let’s say they have to take precautions against bears, wolves, coyotes, pumas/mountain lions. That’s just four large land based carnivores off the top of my head, we have none of that here. All our large predators are in the water.
