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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........

  1. nzshadow Stowaway Sep 7, 2019

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    This idiot flew into the powerlines in front of my house. Knocked out power to our village & the next one over. The smell of charred bat is awful.

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  2. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 7, 2019

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    Installed last week after



     
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  3. queriver Sep 7, 2019

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    Oh well, at least that one won't infect a human with deadly Lyssavirus.

    "Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV) is a virus that can be spread to humans by the saliva of infected bats when the saliva comes in contact with mucous membranes or broken skin, or through bat bites or scratches. Infection with ABLV causes a rabies-like disease in humans that is usually fatal. There have been only three documented cases of ABLV infection in humans. All three of these were in Queensland."
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  4. Walrus Sep 7, 2019

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    @STANDY are those banana crabs you showed edible, I’d like you to send me one next thanksgiving, thanks in advance
     
  5. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 8, 2019

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    Nowhere near as tasty as the mud crabs
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  6. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Sep 8, 2019

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    Its large size and the quality of its meat means that the coconut crab is extensively hunted and is very rare on islands with a human population.[46] The coconut crab is eaten by Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders and is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac, and intensive hunting has threatened the species' survival in some areas.[12] While the coconut crab itself is not innately poisonous, it may become so depending on its diet, and cases of coconut crab poisoning have occurred.[46][47] For instance, consumption of the sea mango, Cerbera manghas, by the coconut crab may make the coconut crab toxic due to the presence of cardiac cardenolides.[48]

    But it takes a brave man to try and cook it!

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  7. Walrus Sep 8, 2019

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    ya we got the Alaskan king crabs which are monsters but that thing is a beast. Amazing creature. You would need a hell of a nutcracker to open that SOB. Too bad it’s getting endangered. Seems like a lot of Asia has no care about sustainability. The US does a decent job with quotas but your neck of the woods China will take anything and Japan with those multi mile long drift nets that catch everything are just brutal. I meandered off topic a bit and the situation might have improved since I read about it a while back you guys would know better than I.
     
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  8. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 8, 2019

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    Plenty of Kangaroos for us Aussies

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  9. Walrus Sep 8, 2019

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    I’d try one. How is the meat? Is it tender or is that a dumb question it just depends on the cut. I ate scorpion in China, roasted on a stick, it had a nutty flavor. Looks like your kangaroo is about medium rare
     
  10. Walrus Sep 8, 2019

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    In addition I should say you guys have phenomenal lamb. It’s usually in our grocery stores and I pick up a rack once in a while. Nothing wrong with US lamb but something you guys are doing makes for very tasty lamb.
     
  11. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 8, 2019

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    In fact, kangaroo meat is so lean that it clocks in at less than 2% fat. "There is no visible fat on kangaroo meat, and the fat it does have is mostly polyunsaturated," Kerin O'Dea, a nutrition professor at the University of South Australia, told the country's consumer watchdog group in 2015. "Lamb and beef, on the other hand, are much higher in visible and saturated fat.” (A serving of lamb comes to about 27% fat and 40% of your daily saturated fat content, while beef contains 20% fat and 25% of a daily recommended serving of saturated fat.)

    Kangaroo has virtually no carbon footprint, releasing next to none of the methane that cows are famous for farting/belching out.

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  12. Walrus Sep 8, 2019

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    Oh hell yeah lamb is pure fat that’s why it taste so good. I’ve had a fire in the broiler cooking lamb and that fat flared up. I try to become a healthy eater but no matter how hard I try fatty foods just keep sucking me back in.
     
  13. Professor Sep 8, 2019

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    All you need now is for some egg bonce to clone the Giant Butcher Lizard from DNA found in fossils.
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  14. Archer Omega Qualified Watchmaker Sep 8, 2019

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    And for visitors too!

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    I always try to eat some Roo when I'm down under. It's delicious.
     
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  17. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 16, 2019

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    Ours are a bit bigger in Darwin ( magpie geese ) CC823449-7D5E-4D02-9F95-AB6F2D3DEA82.jpeg

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    And everything is good in a pie ;)


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  18. michael22 Sep 16, 2019

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    Those Darwin maggies have blunt beaks. Wouldn't want one flying in to my eye, though.
     
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  19. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Sep 16, 2019

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    Old stuff is funny

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  20. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Sep 16, 2019

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    Pfffft.......that's not a magpie. That's a black and white bird TRYING to look like a real magpie.

    I'm a real magpie!

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    and don't forget it.

    On a lighter note, we have three families in our area and we never get swooped, but if Ms JiO walks through the park about a kilometre away she gets swooped, but she doesn't panic or turn to water, she just keeps walking and watching the magpie.

    But then again, she has been hardened to bird swoops after her experience getting dive bombed by nesting Artic Terns on the Isle of May.

    This pic taken milliseconds after she was hit in the back of the head by one.

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