Meaning stuff like the Blue Ring octopus, the box jellyfish, the funnel web spider etc.
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It doesn’t really have that many deadly species for its size.
It’s approximately the same area as the lower 48 US states. In this fairly substantial area that’s only fairly recently touched by major human intervention there are approximately a dozen species of. Deadly snake, which are mostly both rare and non-aggressive, two species of spider known to have killed people, saltwater crocodiles, a few species of sharks and a handful of ocean oddities that are also mostly not aggressive.
Between all these there are approximately one to two human deaths per year due to indigenous wildlife.
Bees reliably kill far more people in Australia each year.
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