Poll: This is whats wrong with Australia
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No... it's about the size of a pidgeon. Kookaburras are actually pretty small birds, considering that they're at the top of the Australian food chain.JWAN said:
Mind you, a spider taking on a Kooka and winning is pretty epic. Makes me proud to live here.
Wikipedia Quote on Fourecks, the alter ego of Australia in Terry Pratchett's Last Continent:
"Both the flora and fauna of the continent is extremely dangerous, as Death's Library attests. A book series known as "Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita" extends at least into "Volume 29c Part Three", while a list of the harmless ones contains only "Some of the sheep." There are few poisonous snakes in XXXX, the explanation for this being that "most of them have been eaten by the spiders".
"Both the flora and fauna of the continent is extremely dangerous, as Death's Library attests. A book series known as "Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita" extends at least into "Volume 29c Part Three", while a list of the harmless ones contains only "Some of the sheep." There are few poisonous snakes in XXXX, the explanation for this being that "most of them have been eaten by the spiders".
naw mate, ya see, when we got a bug problem, we whack out the bowie knives (thats not a knife! THIS, is a knife)JWAN said:
The dangerous looking and lethal flora and fauna of Australia is what really appeals to me. Sadly I don't have the cash to go there, but if I do get it some day, I'll go there and just try to survive in the outback with just some clothes and a knife. : )RedPandaMan said:
Why is it people always have a kneejerk reaction to Australian flora and fauna? o.o Or moreso, just fauna ...
Do you know how RARE it is for someone to die of a spiderbite in Australia? Our medical services have eliminated the threat .... and snakes are only dangerous if you haven't the foggiest on the proper use of a pressure immobilisation bandage o.o (three inches down from the bite, and as far up the limb as possible from the bite ... fasten as securely and with as little wrinkling as possible with atleast a little bandage overlap at each successive rotation around the limb)
Back when there was megafauna like giant wombats and kangaroos .... well .. yeah ... perhaps ...
Most of our mammals are the nice furry kind, with a wicked bite/claw/kick ... but still nothing on the scale as a Brown bear.
Crocodiles ... thats about as dangerous as we get ... and they exist in places most tourists SHOULDN'T GO ANYWAYS ....
Australia is actually a hell of alot safer than North America or Japan ... simply because you're less likely to catch some god-awful superbug IF you have to go to hospital <.<
That and the higher instance of violent crime in said OECD nations .... anyweays ... point is you have more to fear from your fellow man ... and violent crime is nowhere near the standards set in Japan and North America ... so whoilst Australia might seem big and scary (and lets face it, you;re talking about REMOTE Australia) ... keep in mind 90% of the populace live in urban clusters.
Less than 5% of Australians would ever have a chance of encountering the threats percevied by foreigners...
And secondly .... there is no secondly <.< ... people that endanger themselves do so BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID. Decide to take a slash in a crocodile infested water system by standing right on the shore and urinating into the the various watersystems of the 'Top-end'....
People like this deserve to get eaten ... people say tragedy, I say darwinism.
Do you know how RARE it is for someone to die of a spiderbite in Australia? Our medical services have eliminated the threat .... and snakes are only dangerous if you haven't the foggiest on the proper use of a pressure immobilisation bandage o.o (three inches down from the bite, and as far up the limb as possible from the bite ... fasten as securely and with as little wrinkling as possible with atleast a little bandage overlap at each successive rotation around the limb)
Back when there was megafauna like giant wombats and kangaroos .... well .. yeah ... perhaps ...
Most of our mammals are the nice furry kind, with a wicked bite/claw/kick ... but still nothing on the scale as a Brown bear.
Crocodiles ... thats about as dangerous as we get ... and they exist in places most tourists SHOULDN'T GO ANYWAYS ....
Australia is actually a hell of alot safer than North America or Japan ... simply because you're less likely to catch some god-awful superbug IF you have to go to hospital <.<
That and the higher instance of violent crime in said OECD nations .... anyweays ... point is you have more to fear from your fellow man ... and violent crime is nowhere near the standards set in Japan and North America ... so whoilst Australia might seem big and scary (and lets face it, you;re talking about REMOTE Australia) ... keep in mind 90% of the populace live in urban clusters.
Less than 5% of Australians would ever have a chance of encountering the threats percevied by foreigners...
And secondly .... there is no secondly <.< ... people that endanger themselves do so BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID. Decide to take a slash in a crocodile infested water system by standing right on the shore and urinating into the the various watersystems of the 'Top-end'....
People like this deserve to get eaten ... people say tragedy, I say darwinism.
Im pretty sure the 1st spiders in Eight Legged Freaks were Golden Orb Spiders (then same spider form the pics)Macksheath said:
There's virtually no chance of a healthy, adult human dying by spider bite - any spider - and only a small chance of death for children, the elderly or infirm. Humans are just too big for the amount of venom a spider can put in.
The worst venoms are in small spiders. The larger ones (the sort that eat small mammals and birds, usually found in jungles) are a little more serious though: the venom is generally less toxic but they dump a lot more of it into you.
The worst venoms are in small spiders. The larger ones (the sort that eat small mammals and birds, usually found in jungles) are a little more serious though: the venom is generally less toxic but they dump a lot more of it into you.
Cool spider, Australia has surprisingly dangerous fauna, but like the above people stated, the chances of EVER seeing any of these animals whilst living in one of the main cities which almost all of the population does, chances are you'll never see any animal this dangerous in your life.
I used to live just below Cairns, spiders get pretty damned big there but they aren't the worlds largest.
I'm not sure where Baggie lives but I see spiders often, usually white tails or red backs, both are fairly dangerous as far as spiders go. North Queensland is home to the Irikangi, the Fierce snake and some of the worlds largest salt water crocodiles.
Pro tip: Don't go swimming in muddy rivers, don't bother with the bug spray unless it burns your skin and urinating on a sting from an irikangi jellyfish is probably the only way to avoid screaming agony for hours.
I'm not sure where Baggie lives but I see spiders often, usually white tails or red backs, both are fairly dangerous as far as spiders go. North Queensland is home to the Irikangi, the Fierce snake and some of the worlds largest salt water crocodiles.
Pro tip: Don't go swimming in muddy rivers, don't bother with the bug spray unless it burns your skin and urinating on a sting from an irikangi jellyfish is probably the only way to avoid screaming agony for hours.
I hide inside and play video games and grow very very pale. My survival strategy is to leg it to the snow and blend into the background so the giant spider monsters don't come up from behind and spank me.
