Is there an explanation or theory for why there are so many deadly/dangerous animals in Australia specifically?

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Meaning stuff like the Blue Ring octopus, the box jellyfish, the funnel web spider etc.

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Australia is weird, life evolved there because it is an island cut off from competition. So it went down a different route, since the evolutionary pressures were contained.

There are no apex predators in Australia, a bunch of rabbits completely wrecked the whole place and the deadly dangerous animals couldn’t do shit.

So you have these animal extreames that fulfill their niche, you may have an outlier animal that is more dangerous to you, because humans didn’t co evolve with these beasties, but your average Australian animal is just weird, and less dangerous on average, they kill very few people, or even rabbits.

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