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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by llamaLord on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:55AM (#35481098)
To be fair... There are at least... 3... Animals here that aren't explicitly trying to kill us. It's really not that bad.

Just don't go into the warm water or the box jellyfish will get you. Keep an eye out for Sting-rays too... Nobody wants to go out like old-mate Steve.

Oh and don't go into the cold water either, blue-ringed octopus... Nasty buggers.

Rivers too... Not a great idea... Crocks are pretty nippy when they're hungry.

Creeks are pretty safe... Except for those duck-billed, beaver looking mother-fuckers with their poisonous spurs everywhere... (platypus).

Best to avoid the dessert too... Taipan's are pretty nasty. Oh and the fire ants...

Come to think of it, the bush has Tiger Snakes... Probably should avoid that too... Just stay at home...

... Oh... And keep an eye out for the spiders... They really like being indoors where you sleep... Will also kill you...

The main thing to remember though... The true threat... Our sworn enemy for all eternity... Our nations true oppressors... Those fucking Emus.

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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by ndsipa_pomu on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:03AM (#35481158)
You missed out the deadly drop-bears
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by llamaLord on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:06AM (#35481178)
And the Combat-Emu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by techdragon on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:54AM (#35481574)
never heard it called a combat emu…

But also, these guys are like… A+ proof of dinosaur’s evolution into birds… you can pretty much picture Cassowaries in place of the raptors in Jurassic park…

Some extra Cassowary info.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2019...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-da...

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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by llamaLord on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:50PM (#35487446)
"Combat Emu" is my personal contribution to the Aussie lexicon (at least as far as I'm aware). I figured it's appropriate...
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by zabzonk on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:18AM (#35481271)
luckily, the really deadly cassaworys have not yet learned to swim
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by mojo74 on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:07AM (#35481718)
And forgotten how to fly
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by zabzonk on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:24AM (#35482555)
should have thought of that :-)

annecdote: i once went for a job at edinburgh university zoology department (i would have been about 19 at the time), and was confronted with a mostly disected mess.

interviewer: what do you make of that?

me: it looks like a badly disected cassowary.

it was a cassowary (where from, who knows - they don't roam wild on arthur seat) and i didn't get the job (good).

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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by salgernon on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:51AM (#35481544)
I love Terry Pratchett’s description of XXXX - the Australian analogue in his book “The Last Continent”. While a book on deadly native animals would encompass several volumes, the “book” of safe animals was a single page that listed “some of the sheep.”
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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by nirav72 on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:44PM (#35485350)
Don’t forget the dangerous snails.

https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/natural-and-built-environ...

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Re:What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, ... by llamaLord on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:59PM (#35487543)
Oh one really important one I forgot to mention... The Eagles that LITERALLY RAIN FIRE FROM THE SKY... https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/viral/australian-birds...
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