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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.
Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector
Installed last week after
Australia 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.
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queriver
·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.
"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."
- from Qld Govt Health website.
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaIts 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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Walrus
·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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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorPlenty of Kangaroos for us Aussies
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Walrus
·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.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorIn 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.
http://k-roo.com.au/nutrition/
Kangaroo has virtually no carbon footprint, releasing next to none of the methane that cows are famous for farting/belching out.
http://k-roo.com.au/nutrition/
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Walrus
·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.
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Professor
·All you need now is for some egg bonce to clone the Giant Butcher Lizard from DNA found in fossils.
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michael22
·And ... we go full circle, back to birds.
Sydney news: Cyclist dies trying to avoid swooping magpie, bushfire warnings across the state
My sister used to ride a pushbike to work, & for a while this is what she saw every morning, Coming in fast at eye level. It started off pulling up, but after a while went in for the kill. She had to complain to the cops.
Sydney news: Cyclist dies trying to avoid swooping magpie, bushfire warnings across the state
My sister used to ride a pushbike to work, & for a while this is what she saw every morning, Coming in fast at eye level. It started off pulling up, but after a while went in for the kill. She had to complain to the cops.
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bdp
·Cyclist dies while fleeing swooping magpie in Woonona
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...-magpie-in-woonona/ar-AAHlDSa?ocid=spartanntp
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...-magpie-in-woonona/ar-AAHlDSa?ocid=spartanntp
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorOurs are a bit bigger in Darwin ( magpie geese )
And everything is good in a pie 😉
And everything is good in a pie 😉
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michael22
·Those Darwin maggies have blunt beaks. Wouldn't want one flying in to my eye, though.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorOld stuff is funny
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaCyclist dies while fleeing swooping magpie in Woonona
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...-magpie-in-woonona/ar-AAHlDSa?ocid=spartanntp
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!
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.
