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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........
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blubarb
··I might rise, but I refuse to shine.That's why Aussies have among the best (in my opinion ) fighting forces in the world 😁 The youth, like Spartans, are trained from birth to be alert and highly reactive to all possible threats especially in the desert, the scrub and the water, car yards and Rolex ADs. No joke, mate...eh?
And if you run into a blue-ringed octopussy, a summer's day at the beach can do you in. These little buggers hide in cans, under shells, in rocky pools - don't be alert and you'll assume room temperature quick enough.
"The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in." As of 2019 no blue-ringed octopus antivenene is available.
Welcome to Australia and throw another prawn (shrimp) on the barbie, but check the wood pile first before you reach in...
Oh...I forgot about the Drop Bears...
And if you run into a blue-ringed octopussy, a summer's day at the beach can do you in. These little buggers hide in cans, under shells, in rocky pools - don't be alert and you'll assume room temperature quick enough.
"The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in." As of 2019 no blue-ringed octopus antivenene is available.
Welcome to Australia and throw another prawn (shrimp) on the barbie, but check the wood pile first before you reach in...
Oh...I forgot about the Drop Bears...
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector
Just another Australian animal that can fruck you up
With a spur that can inflict pain that no pain killer around can ease not even morphine
Platypus
Considering the large number of venomous creatures that inhabit Australia, the odd-looking, cute and clumsy platypus might seem like a safe option. Think again. A male platypus has ankle spurs that are capable of delivering a wicked sting. So wicked that the excruciating pain can incapacitate an adult human. The pain is also long-lasting, and can even turn into a condition called hyperalgesia, a heightened sensitivity to pain that may last for weeks or months following the initial sting.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_thi...e_long_lasting_impervious_to_painkillers.html
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queriver
·That's why Aussies have among the best (in my opinion ) fighting forces in the world 😁 The youth, like Spartans, are trained from birth to be alert and highly reactive to all possible threats .....
This photo shows the incredible situational awareness of our youth, continuously alert to all potential surrounding threats...
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorThis photo shows the incredible situational awareness of our youth, continuously alert to all potential surrounding threats...
They are on the Australian Danger Ranger app, you can see the girl in the white shorts plotting her way home
While most of us "born here" Aussies have built-in instincts and can sense when we're about to be bitten, kicked, stung, swooped, gored, stomped, bitten, swallowed, bitten or just frightened, many new residents to this continent do not have that inbred "danger sense".
Many visitors from other countries also lack that "born with it" skill that gives us the ability to tell a funnel web from a huntsman etc.
But fear no longer!
Aussie ingenuity has triumphed and overcome, and now provides the safety net that'll keep all newcomers and visitors alive.
Meet the new "Danger Ranger"
I'm getting one for the guy next door (he's from India) and he nearly packed his dacks when he saw a sleepy lizard.
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rob#1
·I’m pretty sure that these guys don’t want to kill you - but you’d best not be too desperate to go...🥰
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queriver
·Video of some joeys (young kangaroos) playing together in a wildlife shelter.
Then they grow up, lose the cuteness and turn into muscle-bound fighters - much like humans really.
Then they grow up, lose the cuteness and turn into muscle-bound fighters - much like humans really.
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Walrus
·I don’t know if it was touched on here but I’ve seen documentaries about those red land crabs that invade certain spots in Australia. They were all over peoples houses, yards and roads. Any of you native Australians experience that
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·I don’t know if it was touched on here but I’ve seen documentaries about those red land crabs that invade certain spots in Australia. /QUOTE]
Be careful! They can jump up to grab you 😲
https://www.landcrab.net/mainframes/main_rally.htm
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Walrus
·Maybe this is better
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·I didn’t realize it was Christmas Island I saw the National Geographic doc too long ago. Still weird
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ahsposo
··Most fun screen name at ΩFAustralia couple injured in 'freak' goanna attack on their dog
An elderly couple has been attacked in Australia by a goanna (a large lizard), as they tried to stop it from savaging their dog, emergency officials say.
The man, in his 70s, was said to have sustained significant injuries and was airlifted to hospital after the incident in north-eastern Queensland.
The woman, in her 60s, was also taken to hospital with an injury to her foot.
The couple's dog, a long-haired Jack Russell cross, was seriously injured.
Goannas can grow up to 2m (6.5ft) in length, though most varieties are under 1m, and rarely attack humans.
The rescue service described the attack which took place in Flametree near Airlie Beach, as "a horrific and freak ordeal".
"The man suffered a very serious laceration and possible fracture of his right forearm as well as severe bleeding from his leg wound. He was in considerable pain," ABC News quotes an ambulance worker as saying.
"The patients are quite lucky not to have been more seriously injured given that goannas can be quite savage," another ambulance worker told ABC, adding: "It doesn't happen every day, that's for sure."
The dog was earlier reported to have died, but ABC later reported that it had survived the attack.
An elderly couple has been attacked in Australia by a goanna (a large lizard), as they tried to stop it from savaging their dog, emergency officials say.
The man, in his 70s, was said to have sustained significant injuries and was airlifted to hospital after the incident in north-eastern Queensland.
The woman, in her 60s, was also taken to hospital with an injury to her foot.
The couple's dog, a long-haired Jack Russell cross, was seriously injured.
Goannas can grow up to 2m (6.5ft) in length, though most varieties are under 1m, and rarely attack humans.
The rescue service described the attack which took place in Flametree near Airlie Beach, as "a horrific and freak ordeal".
"The man suffered a very serious laceration and possible fracture of his right forearm as well as severe bleeding from his leg wound. He was in considerable pain," ABC News quotes an ambulance worker as saying.
"The patients are quite lucky not to have been more seriously injured given that goannas can be quite savage," another ambulance worker told ABC, adding: "It doesn't happen every day, that's for sure."
The dog was earlier reported to have died, but ABC later reported that it had survived the attack.
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MMMD
·My God, how does this country do it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...-woman-death-medical-journal-reports-n1049586
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...-woman-death-medical-journal-reports-n1049586
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaOne time when I was a kid my Dad went to get a chook for Sunday dinner and our old rooster went him.
Just once.
It wasn't as nice as a normal chook either, very tough.
Just once.
It wasn't as nice as a normal chook either, very tough.
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Professor
·If you take any sort of blood thinner, or anticoagulant, you can bleed to death from minor injuries.
Aspirin or Tynlenol can have the same effect in large doses.
Aspirin or Tynlenol can have the same effect in large doses.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorMy God, how does this country do it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...-woman-death-medical-journal-reports-n1049586
One time when I was a kid my Dad went to get a chook for Sunday dinner and our old rooster went him.
Just once.
It wasn't as nice as a normal chook either, very tough.
Got 7 stitches behind the ear as a 10 year old from a rooster..
I don’t know if it was touched on here but I’ve seen documentaries about those red land crabs that invade certain spots in Australia. They were all over peoples houses, yards and roads. Any of you native Australians experience that
Worked on Christmas Island for a bit amazing.
Pic I took
Brings the sea life around as well, whale sharks, Tuna and Wahoo.
Had a national geographic experience chasing tuna during the red crab migration. Busting the surface as far as the eye could see 360 degrees around the boat with thousands of birds diving.......
Coconut crabs were the scary ones on the island
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MMMD
·One time when I was a kid my Dad went to get a chook for Sunday dinner and our old rooster went him.
Just once.
It wasn't as nice as a normal chook either, very tough.
Haha we had a flock of bantams when I was a kid, and one of the roosters was an absolute psycho, used to chase us kids around the yard and one day planted both spurs in my great aunt’s backside while she was doing the weeding. My dad grabbed the machete and... that was the day I learned the meaning of “running around like a chicken with its head cut off.”
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