Deadly Aussie Animals

[cooran]

Deadly Animals

Come To Australia by The Scared Weird Little Guys

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Enjoy!

With metta,
Chris

[tiltbillings]

I like it. Catchy tune.

[samseva]

Haha. They had vegemite with all the pictures of dangerous and venomous animals.

[Kim OHara]

Don't laugh about Vegemite - it's one of the few known drop-bear repellents.


Kim

[dagon]

Don't laugh about Vegemite - it's one of the few known drop-bear repellents.


Kim

Dead bacteria and salt should be a repellent to all thinking life forms

At least Red Backs look nice
dagon

[Mkoll]

Don't laugh about Vegemite - it's one of the few known drop-bear repellents.


Kim

Dead bacteria and salt should be a repellent to all thinking life forms

At least Red Backs look nice
dagon

Not only are there about 10 times as many bacterial than human cells in or on your body, but combined all the different species have about 143 times as many genes. It's really not that gross when you realize they're inside us, outside us, on us, and virtually everywhere we go. It's only the dangerous ones that you've got to worry about, though if you have a compromised immune system, that category gets big.

We think eukaryotes are the cool kids, but it's really the prokaryotes that are dominant—they'll be here long after we've gone the way of the dodo.

And to stay on topic, here are Australia's 10 most deadly animals.

[Kim OHara]

... And to stay on topic, here are Australia's 10 most deadly animals.

It's a strange list.

The Australian Museum in Sydney has a ranking of Australia's most dangerous animals based on the level of threat they pose, combined with how likely an unlucky punter is to encounter one in the wild.
Martyn Robinson, a naturalist at the Australian Museum, thinks the threat from creatures that bite and sting may be overblown compared to the threat from moving vehicles. "The most dangerous thing you can do is probably just crossing the road," he told Mashable Australia.

Probably right, too, however much it spoils our reputation for wild wildlife.


Kim

[Mkoll]

[tiltbillings]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/cconnelly/10-t ... opbear-s3x

[Kim OHara]

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[Ben]

... And to stay on topic, here are Australia's 10 most deadly animals.

It's a strange list.

The Australian Museum in Sydney has a ranking of Australia's most dangerous animals based on the level of threat they pose, combined with how likely an unlucky punter is to encounter one in the wild.
Martyn Robinson, a naturalist at the Australian Museum, thinks the threat from creatures that bite and sting may be overblown compared to the threat from moving vehicles. "The most dangerous thing you can do is probably just crossing the road," he told Mashable Australia.

Probably right, too, however much it spoils our reputation for wild wildlife.


Kim

on one of my guided walks I stop at a point and ask my charges what they think the most dangerous (non-human) animal is. Of course, most people offer up the local subspecies of the tiger snake. I then tell them that you're more likely to die from an anaphylactic reaction to the sting of an ant, the jack jumper.
The last time someone died from a tiger snake bite in Tas was in 1967.

[tiltbillings]

on one of my guided walks I stop at a point and ask my charges what they think the most dangerous (non-human) animal is. Of course, most people offer up the local subspecies of the tiger snake. I then tell them that you're more likely to die from an anaphylactic reaction to the sting of an ant, the jack jumper.

I bet that that was real relief. Now this poor sap looks at every any scuttering along ground and views it with abject terror.

[Ben]

on one of my guided walks I stop at a point and ask my charges what they think the most dangerous (non-human) animal is. Of course, most people offer up the local subspecies of the tiger snake. I then tell them that you're more likely to die from an anaphylactic reaction to the sting of an ant, the jack jumper.

I bet that that was real relief. Now this poor sap looks at every any scuttering along ground and views it with abject terror.

What I forgot to mention is that I give that little talk right at the nest of a jack jumper colony. I then point out the identifying features of a colony (a pile of fine gravel) and then tell people to be mindful of where they're walking so as they don't stand or sit on a nest. It's all about managing risk and making it a seemless and informative part of the walk and not to scare the pants off my guests.
Kind regards,
Ben

[Kim OHara]

That's a good thought. If you did scare the pants off them they would be much more likely to be bitten when they sat down.


Kim

[JeffR]

This could go here or in the 'joke' thread: