Why is Australian wildlife so much more intense/dangerous than the rest of the world?
In: Biology
It’s not, but we like the way it’s portrayed in the media because it makes us seem bad arse. Yeah we have a lot of poisonous species in snakes, spiders, jellies and what not, but they haven’t killed many people for a long time. The funnel web spider is our most dangerous one and a kid got bitten like 5 times or something last year, and the hospital saved him by pumping a shit tonne of antivenom through him.
Occasionally a shark or croc will grab someone but that’s about all.
Red kangaroos are the big scary bastards that go around the internet but we don’t have a lot of contact with them. They can be aggressive if you get to close, but they’re not killers. The grey roos are just cuddly sooks.
So basically, don’t piss off the nasty ones (which you probably won’t run into anyway) and it’s all good.
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