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Norman Alexander said:
[THIS IS SARCASM-->]Yep, sure. Whatever you like. It isn't going to make any difference in the great scheme of things, really. [<--THAT WAS SARCASM]
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I don't believe for a minute this reply was sarcasm.
Norman Alexander said:
Yeah, nah.

They live in holes in the ground and try to catch stuff that walks by, like bigger insects. They don't prowl. So why would they go anywhere, especially into someone's house?

More likely it was a Whitetail spider. :D
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All I'm looking for is honesty, acknowledgement that you cherry picked the evidence I cited, and we're good.
 
Elagabalus said:
Should we send some of these over? Maybe they can be trained to go for SFWs (doubtful).



https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/0000015f-c049-df9f-a97f-f06b0c630000





Oh and btw, your snakes are still crap! The real pit vipers are laughing at your pathetic excuse for a venomous snake.
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I tell an anecdote about my second visit to Australia, I was determined to see a Kangaroo so the company I was visiting kindly took me to a wildlife reserve. I remember a talk given by one of the guides and it was about how deadly everything was in Australia, and "this has the most deadly x in the world, this is only venomous in the world", and after about 10 minutes of boasting about how deadly everything was, he sort of waves his hand towards a snake and said with obvious embarrassment and disgust, "this is our most deadly snake, only the 3rd deadliest in the world". You could see how it was a source of great national embarrassment that Australia only had the 3rd most deadly snake in the world.
 
I had a FWS in my bed. It killed me.

Some day I'll tell you about a week end in bed with a SJW that I picked up at the bar. That weekend nearly killed me too. That was REALLY flogging a dead horse....
 
The animal that kills the greatest number of people in the US is deer. Because they cause car wrecks. I'd guess that the most dangerous animal in Australia is the kangaroo, for similar reasons.
 
Trebuchet said:
The animal that kills the greatest number of people in the US is deer. Because they cause car wrecks.
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The deer economy is based on insurance payouts and fraud. Those wrecks are never accidents. Follow the money! Forest lawyers! It sickens me.
 
Trebuchet said:
The animal that kills the greatest number of people in the US is deer. Because they cause car wrecks. I'd guess that the most dangerous animal in Australia is the kangaroo, for similar reasons.
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No.

Because we know where to site our wildlife crossings.
 
OMG, thank you for today's moment of mirth!
I know where all the deer crossings are between my house and the town: From the garage door all the way to wherever I'm going in town. We're infested with the damn things.
I also had to brake for a coyote yesterday.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Speaking of not being that concerned, we stayed in Tasmania for a month including a bit of camping and a lot of hiking. Taz has 4 snake species (three land and a sea snake species), all venomous. We were wading across a pond when a snake swam across it the other way.

We thought it was super cool. The best thing about Oz is the wildlife.
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Similar story...

I was wading/swimming across the Deua river, with a group of friends, when an ENORMOUS crocodile swam between us all!

Fortunately, it was only a goanna, but in our defence, it was a really big one.

:)

In other non-news, I was chased around a back patio, by a funnel web spider, in North Sydney. (Much to everyone's amusement). It was a feisty one.
 
novaphile said:
Similar story...

I was wading/swimming across the Deua river, with a group of friends, when an ENORMOUS crocodile swam between us all!

Fortunately, it was only a goanna, but in our defence, it was a really big one.

:)

In other non-news, I was chased around a back patio, by a funnel web spider, in North Sydney. (Much to everyone's amusement). It was a feisty one.
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They are very big.

I tried to get a closeup picture of a goanna. I got closer and closer because it wasn't moving away. It attacked! Jumped at me and I ran away.

Why would you be swimming where crocs might be?

And I'm sorry, I would have to smash that spider. :eek:
 
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Darat said:
I tell an anecdote about my second visit to Australia, I was determined to see a Kangaroo so the company I was visiting kindly took me to a wildlife reserve. ...
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Our friends took us to a camping area in Taz so we could get our first look at kangaroos. As the sun went down, they emerged looking like giant rats on the horizon. :p
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
They are very big.

I tried to get a closeup picture of a goanna. I got closer and closer because it wasn't moving away. It attacked! Jumped at me and I ran away.

Why would you be swimming where crocs might be?
And I'm sorry, I would have to smash that spider. :eek:
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There really shouldn't be any crocs anywhere near that river, we were just a bit surprised to see something that big and obviously reptilian crossing the river with us.

You've reminded me of a great "joke" that a friend from Woomera swears was unintentional...

We'd found a goanna near lake Koolymilka and he wanted to demonstrate how goanna's (like mythical Ostrich behaviour) will hide their head under a bush, and think that they're invisible...

So he shouted at the goanna and waved his arms to scare it.

The damned thing ran up ME! and jumped off my head and shoulders.

I had huge scratches on my face, neck and scalp. (One of which took a suspiciously long time to heal).

Of course, he laughed, but claimed to feel guilty about it.
 
novaphile said:
There really shouldn't be any crocs anywhere near that river, we were just a bit surprised to see something that big and obviously reptilian crossing the river with us.

You've reminded me of a great "joke" that a friend from Woomera swears was unintentional...

We'd found a goanna near lake Koolymilka and he wanted to demonstrate how goanna's (like mythical Ostrich behaviour) will hide their head under a bush, and think that they're invisible...

So he shouted at the goanna and waved his arms to scare it.

The damned thing ran up ME! and jumped off my head and shoulders.

I had huge scratches on my face, neck and scalp. (One of which took a suspiciously long time to heal).

Of course, he laughed, but claimed to feel guilty about it.
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That's funny. Sorry about your wounds of course. They have nasty looking bite potential so I imagine it was awful.

We got a kick out of the fact they knocked over trash cans like a raccoon might.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
That's funny. Sorry about your wounds of course. They have nasty looking bite potential so I imagine it was awful.

We got a kick out of the fact they knocked over trash cans like a raccoon might.
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:)

It was only my dignity that was seriously hurt.

There has been discussion in Australia that some of the monitor lizards are venomous. So now, I'm much more wary of goannas.

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Which reminds me...

The other day, I heard something kill a rat in my front yard.

(The rat squealed a lot and then stopped.)

All this took place underneath bushes and leaves...

I'm not brave enough to find out if there's a snake out there, but I think there might be, because I keep hearing rustling noises etc.

:(

As I'm sure you can imagine, I'm taking extra precautions.
 
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