I love when channels talk about how an animal makes a crazy sound and then proceed to not actually let us hear what it sounds like. It's my favorite thing. I love it so much. It definitely doesn't make me irrationally annoyed.
There’s a fairly simple explanation for all the crazy stuff in Australia: Australia has historically been so geographically isolated that the wildlife didn’t necessarily face the same environmental pressures to evolve along similar paths as all other wildlife on earth.
Tips for visiting Australia (from an Aussie): - Never get into fresh water unless you know it's safe, do not be "that one guy" who thought you can just go for a nice swim in a lake in Australia. There is a crocodile in there, you don't see him, but he thinks you look delicious. - Never get into salty water unless you know it's safe. If you're at a beach and there's plenty of people around, you'll probably be fine as long as you stay in the areas that are marked as safe. They are marked for a reason, if you get stung by a box jellyfish your life is over. Within 3 minutes you will be bleeding from your eyes, mouth, nose, and every other hole in your body, there is no antivenom, you will likely not even have 5 minutes to tell your family goodbye. Also there are rocks in the ocean that are not actual rocks, they're a death sentence. (I avoid water altogether, I've been stung before by one of the least dangerous jellyfish in Australia and I passed out from the pain, and was in absolute agony for no less than 7 hours) - Never, EVER under-estimate a cassowary. They are seriously dangerous. I saw one when I was a little kid, I stood there and looked from a distance, everything was fine. Don't be a moron, just stay still and enjoy how pretty it is. Don't panic, he doesn't want to hurt you. But do keep in mind that if you annoy him, I guarantee you, you will NOT win that fight. - Do not under-estimate just how dangerous the outback can be. It's not the animals that will kill you out there, it's your car breaking down 1000km from the nearest town, when you haven't seen another car in two days. You will have no cell reception. So you better have enough fuel to easily make it to the next town, a spare tire, and enough water to last multiple days. Because if you find yourself out there and you're not prepared, you will not be coming home. I love the outback, the red sand, insane temperatures, and being truly alone. But I've had my car break down before and I drank a tiny bit of water out of a hole in the road, then almost passed out on the side of the road before someone pulled over to help me. And this was definitely not the worst place I could have broken down. I love my country, and I think you will too. But there are many hazards here. If you don't do dumb stuff, you'll be fine. Just assume that any animal you see can kill you, that doesn't mean you have to run away screaming every time you see a big kangaroo, just admire it from a distance. Can he kill you? Yes. Is he going to? No. Do run from the big spiders though, christ they are scary. P.S. Step on your shoes and then shake them a bit then use your hand to check for spiders before putting them on.
I'm not even from australia and I think it should be absolut common knowledge to NEVER go into uknown waters Especially with all the saltys around It's not beceause they are litteraly everywhere, but they COULD be everywhere Just not worth the risk
@@jonaswerner8480 Yeah exactly. And they're really quite common in certain parts of Australia, especially the Northern Territory, but you'll never know there's one there until it's too late. Every now and then a tourist comes to Australia and gets eaten by a crocodile. The Southern half of Australia has few to no crocodiles, but crocs are not the only dangerous fresh water creature, there are bull-sharks too
@@CynicallyDepressedx Kinda funny talking about this, since today I will go swimming in a lake and wont have to worry that anything in it will try to eat me I'm very thankfull for that
There’s 3 water buffalo just down the road from there usually just chillin in the damn but occasionally you’ll see them playing with the horses that share the paddock
I used to go to work with a tennis racquet in my hand here on the Sunshine Coast when I lived in Caloundra. You could see maggies coming at you on the way to the bus stop in the morning during nesting season because they lived in gum trees on a traffic island just across the road from it. I swatted a few like giant mosquitoes in my time. Luckily at night when you get home these ones didn’t bother you. Daylight though? These ones were T-800’s with wings. Magpies strike fear into the heart of any Australian, manliest man, toughest woman or the most fearless feral country kid, more than the spiders, snakes, stone fish, cone shells, cassowaries, blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, bluebottles, irukandji, tiger, bull & great white sharks and Drop Bears ever will. Let’s not get started on the Gympie-Gympie plant. Magpies, “The Terror From The Skies”… they still scare the absolute shit out of me. This country is Metal AF, probably explains why I am too 🤘Stay safe out there mate.
@@Lucifurion Carrying a weapon only makes you more of a target. They have long memories and good facial recognition. What you want to do is talk to them, and give them treats.
They are voracious little bastards. They were brought into Utah to take out all the crickets. They did their job all too well. Insect life here has been like a see saw ever since. The mantis kill everything until there is nothing left to eat and die off starving. Later the prey insects make a comeback and the whole process starts all over again.
Just as strange, the platypus has hypodermic thorns on it's inner thighs and they inject a poison that lights up your pain sensors like a christmas tree. Pick one up and it will wrap its back legs around your arm to inject you.
@@DPowered2 Saying "imagine a predator the size of an elephant" would be a point of reference. Saying "imagine a four legged herbivorous mammal with tusks and a trunk the size of an elephant" would just be describing an elephant.
@balrogsareop4773 so tigars are the only aggressive predators with strong jaws? You defeated your own argument with a better one than what I made. Then you take into account this is about animals no longer alive but have exist your point still doesn't make sense
Unless it's a huntsman or daddy-longlegs. Daddy-longlegs (yes they're spiders IN AUSTRALIA) are completely harmless, and are actually one of the main predators of redbacks. Huntsman are maybe the freakiest of any spider in Australia, but are also completely harmless. Maybe still take it outside though, those things can grow as big as your hand.
I've heard about and seen them big ass ones the sizes of cats that LITERALLY CHASE YOU. Dude just burn the whole damn country and see the rest of the world lol 🛕🕌🏝🏔🏞
There needs to be a video on Cichlid fish and the evolutionary trip that species has been on! They've taken hold on almost every continent and are so incredibly diversified that there's a flavor for just about everyone!
There's a reason why Bethesda doesn't make a fallout Australia, because if regular Australia is this scary imagination the things in this video getting a glow up by Rad's or FEV lol 😂
Walking under those trees at night ... is it an arboreal pig? Is it a mutant donkey? No, from how deep that voice is, it's gotta be a flying hippopotamus!
This video reminds of a recent lecture I had in one of my courses, my professor referenced a research journal called “island biogeography” and explained why species are often so strange on islands due to selected pressures. Essentially, the larger an island is and the closer the island is to a mainland continent is one of the major components of island biodiversity.
We have birds that will pick up burning branches from a bushfire and drop them somewhere else with long grass so all the small animals will run out where the birds can eat them - is that close enough? "Spitfire" caterpillars don't actually spit fire, just acid, that burns skin and feels like fire.
The female spectre stick insects can fly with their wings but only very short distances. I used to keep the species and it was one of my favourite things about them, they look like little wooden dragons when they fly haha =)
The first one you showed wasn't a turtle frog. It was a puffy rain frog if I remember right. They look similar to a degree, big fat bodies. Only the puffy frog has some color to it. They're quite cute. Also. Kangaroos are just deer who went to jail. If you know the meme it's hilarious and looks really accurate.
the photo of the Whites tree frog used under "what the world got" is actually a frog almost exclusive to Australia, with a small range in Indonesia.. like this channel, and i get its not about facts but more general subjects.. but sometimes the inaccuracy is just to great to ignore.. like this case, taking an animal that is almost exclusively Australian and saying its is not from Australia..
As a Floridian... I'm mildly weary of Australia.... With the amount of travelers who've brought over many invasive species... We are aware we are vulnerable to ending up similar to Australia due to our environment.... But we can't be bothered until there is an actual issue🙄
Did you mean you’re wary of Australia? Cause if so, there’s not a lot of reason to worry. The import/export laws of Australia are very VERY strict, and it’s unlikely any Australian flora/fauna would make its way to Florida and establish a population. 😊
@@skeletonqueenie5269 Im from florida lol Im honestly more worried about what comes on banana boats from south America! We have alot of invasive species here like the brazillian wandering spider that comes from the southern latin countries.
Now for sake of your time, Here's a quick summary: The reason why everyone say australia is a terrible place and full of dangerous animals, is because in australia has one of if not the most competitive and harshest ecosystem out there, so naturaly many animals there have to adapt to their environments and sometimes in a extreme ways to survive. You can thank me later :)
So Australia is basically, the ULTRA PVP Zone, that Only the best of the best and smartest overall and strongest animals could survive, So you had to have a unique ability or else, you would die or go extinct.
Nah, the most harshest environment title on earth probably goes to the DEEP SEA, ever saw those players down there? The meta down there is literally some eldritch horror
The amount of diversity and unique creatures that existed there (not just today but throughout history) Back in the day there were so many insane creatures. Like INSANE! Giant Komodo dragons, the list goes on. It's facinating.
The Aborigines have a story of a Giant Man Eating Salamander that terrorized them. Given the type of animal life that lives there, it’s believed this isn’t a fictional story like monsters in other cultures and was actually an animal that was very real and the memory of it was preserved by their ancient ancestors. It’s extinct now but they did live in Australia and the story was probably a real life account of ancient humans encountering these giant animals and passing down the story.
@@fist-of-doom487 i bet the salamander could have existed. I mean have you seen the giant salamanders from Japan? It's mind blowing. I bet New Zealand had giant eels back in the days. These things just don't fossilize well or ever so it's difficult to find proof certain types of creatures existed.
The Puerto Rican Coqui Frog also skipped the Tadpole stage, and also births super tiny fully formed Coqui frogs. And Puerto Rico located in the Caribbean and being hot too, does NOT have endemic venomous fauna, except for some spiders and fuzzy caterpillars.
Australian mainland was home to many different species that are no longer on the mainland or are extinct outright. a lot of these species now are or were located in Tasmania. The culprit was the dingo that was introduced around 3000 yrs ago with the arrival of seafaring aboriginals. Some of the species that were wiped out from the Australian mainland were a number of Quall species, Tasmanian Devils and the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers).
I'd rather have wolves and bears than giant venomous spiders and snakes. At least you know where their territories are and easier to spot than a spider that can just hide in your house and bite in your sleep if you're unlucky. Also it would be still faster and probably even less painful than dying by the venom of one of Australia's creatures.
I was born in England but have family in Australia I learned visiting Australia just dont touch anything Spiders playing dead to try and bite you Kangaroos are cute but can pack a kick Tarantulas can find their way in to houses somehow And cokatoos can rip out a piercing so have fun with that Everyone should know about the blue ringed octopus And if your a bit screamish the thrill lizard will give you a shock ..... ahhh I miss australia
You forgot to mention all the 'Joe Blakes'.... Taipan, Death Adder, Re-bellied Black snake, King Brown(kill you in 10 minutes) Copperhead, and some others I've forgotten. Then there is the Sydney Funnel Web (world's deadliest spider?) and lots of rutting camels and wild Buffs. Oh and the odd Salty (crocs) as big as a bus !
And with all the fauna and flora, the thing most likely to kill you in Australia is still the climate. Statistically, any time we have the sort of big bushfire that kills people, twice as many people will have died of heat in the weather leading up to the fire. So if 100 people died in the fire, another 200 died of heat and the news stories just didn't bother to mention them. Dying of heat isn't newsworthy here.
There's one creature that hasn't diversified its physical traits, (other than cosmetic), wherever it has turned up in the world... even in Australia they didn't get bigger, grow fangs, spikes or armored plates.... Humans.
While Australia may not have the most venomous animals in terms of numbers of species; it does have 20 of the 25 most-venomous snakes, including the top 11 most-venomous. It's also host to several of the most-venomous spiders in the world, with the Funnel Web spider often described as the deadliest in the world; and 7/10 of the most deadly jellyfish.
For many years no one has been killed from a spider bite so why need to say that?? Also on average it’s 1-1.5 people a year who die from snake venom so in other words pretty harmless to humans when comparing it to how many animals here have such deadly toxic venom. U know why our snakes venom is so potent? And it’s just kinda clicked after so many years? It’s because the prey they eat needs to be sedated as quickly as possible so the snake isn’t harmed/scratched/bitten by said mammal cuz they got no limbs or ‘teeth’ to defend themselves with. Also these amazing wonderful gorgeous snakes provide good nutrition to many of our other native animals, especially the snake babies!!
As a person who has been living in Australia for 10 years already, theyy ain't monsters, they're our children who are smart enough to defend themselves.
Love these videos! Especially the coffee slurp at the beginning! But, dude doesn't look old enough for a voice like that! I pictured him different! Great video though. Definitely want to move to Australia now!
loads of Australian native animals have a deep guttural hissing moaning cry. currently i have a mumma possum and her kid nesting under my floor. when they call it sounds like an evil hag laughing, or squealing like a 3pack a day demon
Imagine going back in time to walk through Australia, it would be a really short walk, much shorter then today! Also, megachunk and chonkosaurus, did they make an online pole to give them names?
@@Lucifurion Well, it is the proven method of naming things. I an the one to speak, I prefer to spark an owl and then repair people's PCs. I have no idea how I actually narrowed down 1/10000 problem but I do every time :D
Awesome video! I absolutely love your channel!!! I'm starting to think that Steve and Narrator are the same person. Anyone else? How can I get my own WATOP face mask? Like the one Steve wears?
@@kyleellis1825 actually you are correct. There is a portion of land that was submerged and disconnected from the other continents. But a good land mass stayed in tact
@@NinjutsuSeeker Do you mean Zealandia? The continent that New Zealand is just the peak of a mountain range for? That's the East coast. I just assumed the other side of Australia got a super tsunami at one point since the west coast is pretty uninhabited/barren.
Those stick insects are bananas ! Could you imagine being in the States ,say Virginia🤷🏼♂️& stepping outside for a smoke & you catch something slowly moving outta the corner of your eye? You walk over to investigate & see one of those ? 😳it would freak me out for a second I’m sure …..I don’t think I’d get close enough to find out if it was harmless or not tho…..no thanks 🤨
There are stick insects all around the World. They're all harmless and commonly kept as pets. Also the part about them eating the birds is total bs - they're unable to eat anything other than leaves, cannot even bite.
Every time I watch your videos, I keep thinking "is this really your voice??". Anyway, I really like your channel, congratulations on the content. Hugs from Brazil (:
Very well researched and made. The extinction of mega fauna was also around the time Lake Mungo dried up. The scientific debate about whether the Aboriginals caused their extinction or the environmental changes continues.... my bet is the environment as fridges etc did not exist and Aborigines only took what they immediately consumed.
but they burnt the land to hunt, changing the environment and killing off the fauna. No different to any other population when the encountered (invaded) a country
That 4,500 year old sea grass is so cool. 4,500 years ago was when Noah's Flood happened. That plant may just be the only living thing to live through nearly all of human history.
@@stefthorman8548 floods are common natural disaster, it's not crazy to think many culture would portray it on their folklore. Also, written records should always be taken as a hint, because it is possible when reading a text, that it just may be a legend, or that someone modified the text, or that it uses weird metaphores, or simply, that the author lies. I'd be more impressed if you showed some fossil or geological records of the event to prove your point.
Could you do a video on what color insects’ blood is? I read their blood is clear but I must have smashed a mosquito because the liquid that came out of it was red. So it must have just fed. Since you have a lot of other insect aka “creepy crawling ew” videos I figured why not. Thank you for your time.
he forgot the bush that its sting will never go away and the pain is so bad it leads anyone who gets stung by it to either un alive themselves or amputate that limb, there was even recorded cases of Full sized male broncos coming into contact with the bush and throwing themselves off cliffs.
Everytime i see that ancient map, that shows how close Australia was to Antarctica? I wonder if there was any creatures that existed on parts of Antarctica during specific times in global history? Now maybe we can't find evidence due to the drastic changes in the conditions of Antarctica?
Marsupials and other extant species of animals native to Australia, New Zealand and some parts of South America are likely the closest we'll ever come outside of fossils evidence found in Antarctica itself. There are however surviving species of trees and other plants that originally evolved in Antarctica and at one point would have been major components of the forests that used to cover the continent. You can find them specifically in the Valdivian Temperate and Magellanic Subpolar forests on the west side of the Andes in the southernmost parts of South America along with some forests in Australia and New Zealand for example.
There's good evidence the monotremes were native to Antarctica and that's why Australia only has the echidna and platypus. I guess we'll learn a lot more when global warming clears the ice off Antarctica - too bad about the cities that will be underwater, but we'll have access to a lot of cool fossils!
have learnt more from you than any of my school teacher could teach Thanks. Just remember if you are tough you;ll survive. Btw Australia is the continent that time forgot. it took 50 for the Healesville sanctuary to breed ONE platypus. Cheers
Tasmanian devils aren’t actually predators or aggressive at all. They are actually scavengers and prefer to eat already deceased animals and bugs and they will rarely actually hunt for their own prey. They are also pretty shy in the wild and just seem to be aggressive because of the growling noise they make, they are also becoming endangered due to a disease that is effecting their face and breathing, you can see this on the faces at 3:08. Also the lizard shown at 28:08 is called the Stumpy tailed lizard, when it is threatened it will turn into a U shape and face it’s tail and head both at the predator, this gives it a 50% increase of survival as the predator will often believe that the tails is the head and rip the tail of rather than the head, they can also walk backwards to better this effect. The lizard shown at 27:25 is a Blue tongue lizard also btw
I saw a comment that said they spread tumors among themselves via biting, which at first I didn't think it was possible, but then I investigated, and yeah it's a real thing??? I've never heard of infectious cancer but somehow tasmanian devils made it work??? I'm still surprised by this
Devils aren't aggressive with humans who raise them in captivity, but in the wild, they constantly fight over scraps, territory, mates, everything. They can hunt or scavenge, just like most carnivores. The wounds are not the disease. They're from fighting. Sadly, the fighting spreads the disease that's killing them all.
Australia really is overrated when comes to having scary animals… spiders and snakes are scary, sure. But personally I find mountain lions and grizzly bears to be much scarier
hey those small thing will kill just as easily as a mountain lion or bear if not easier and faster with no signs before hand so uh now imagine an Australian version of a bear or mountain lion
Lion or bears doesn't just appear randomly around you and at best it'll kill one two people before they got shot down. Meanwhile venomous snake and spider can crawl to your bed or right into your toilet bowl and kill you when you're most vulnerable in a slow and painful death.
@@JeSt4m Also here's someone's answer from Quora that I somehow can't link because UA-cam removes comments with links for some reason. "Well…we don’t have lions, cheetah, elephants, rhinos, hippos, gorillaz, chimps, hyenas, and a whole host of large wild animals. These are amongst the most dangerous animals in the world, never mind Africa. While our snakes are more venomous….we count deaths per year in single digits…one hand…. while the African Puff Adder I believe is about 32,000 deaths. We have kangaroos, wallabies and ….wombats. I don’t believe anyone has been killed by a wombat unless it fell off a ladder and landed on someone. We don’t have tsetse flies. We don’t have malaria …. still the most dangerous organism to humans on the planet, at over 400,000 world wide. The only thing I can say about Australia as being the most dangerous Australian creature is one that inhabits Australia’s most popular location….not going to the toilet…or drinking beer…or ….driving cars…but the beach. The Chironex Fleckeri or Box Jelly. Even a minor sting is bad enough but a major sting is fatal. It is so bad that the Ambulance and the Life Savers carry the anti-venene because every second counts. The rest…well…they do try to avoid humans. Except crocs. Crocs will just march right through your front door and take you out while you’re munching on your Weet-Bix. But Africa has them too."
@@MMZ_ThumperNah, to say we are the mistake would be dramatizing, but I understand where you're coming from. It is very clear tho that we will repeat nearly any faulty behavior. We were given a good hand to play a major role and since the arrival of civilization, we abused it again and again.
I'd like to see these relocation programs get planned for newly formed volcanic islands. Have the entire ecosystem planned out, only built using endangered species. That way the whole island is a back up plan for a bunch of plants/animals/fungus.
@@poz21983 So what? As long as we keep flying birds/long distance swimmer off the siland, no ecosystem is being harmed except a brand new one with absolutly nothing but volcanic rock on it. They take centuries normally to even begin to have an ecosystem.
I love when channels talk about how an animal makes a crazy sound and then proceed to not actually let us hear what it sounds like. It's my favorite thing. I love it so much. It definitely doesn't make me irrationally annoyed.
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chill yo, just go search it up. You have an internet connection and working hands.
Voice over becomes too grating for me... was the sound a territorial male koala? If so you do not want to hear it.
😂😂
Ikr, so friggin annoying
There’s a fairly simple explanation for all the crazy stuff in Australia: Australia has historically been so geographically isolated that the wildlife didn’t necessarily face the same environmental pressures to evolve along similar paths as all other wildlife on earth.
they are more fragile, kive in more specific niches and easier to wipe out
That is legit what he said in the video
Life there is old older than the trees
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god testing beta version of the alien update in australia and newzealandXD
Tips for visiting Australia (from an Aussie):
- Never get into fresh water unless you know it's safe, do not be "that one guy" who thought you can just go for a nice swim in a lake in Australia. There is a crocodile in there, you don't see him, but he thinks you look delicious.
- Never get into salty water unless you know it's safe. If you're at a beach and there's plenty of people around, you'll probably be fine as long as you stay in the areas that are marked as safe. They are marked for a reason, if you get stung by a box jellyfish your life is over. Within 3 minutes you will be bleeding from your eyes, mouth, nose, and every other hole in your body, there is no antivenom, you will likely not even have 5 minutes to tell your family goodbye. Also there are rocks in the ocean that are not actual rocks, they're a death sentence. (I avoid water altogether, I've been stung before by one of the least dangerous jellyfish in Australia and I passed out from the pain, and was in absolute agony for no less than 7 hours)
- Never, EVER under-estimate a cassowary. They are seriously dangerous. I saw one when I was a little kid, I stood there and looked from a distance, everything was fine. Don't be a moron, just stay still and enjoy how pretty it is. Don't panic, he doesn't want to hurt you. But do keep in mind that if you annoy him, I guarantee you, you will NOT win that fight.
- Do not under-estimate just how dangerous the outback can be. It's not the animals that will kill you out there, it's your car breaking down 1000km from the nearest town, when you haven't seen another car in two days. You will have no cell reception. So you better have enough fuel to easily make it to the next town, a spare tire, and enough water to last multiple days. Because if you find yourself out there and you're not prepared, you will not be coming home. I love the outback, the red sand, insane temperatures, and being truly alone. But I've had my car break down before and I drank a tiny bit of water out of a hole in the road, then almost passed out on the side of the road before someone pulled over to help me. And this was definitely not the worst place I could have broken down.
I love my country, and I think you will too. But there are many hazards here. If you don't do dumb stuff, you'll be fine. Just assume that any animal you see can kill you, that doesn't mean you have to run away screaming every time you see a big kangaroo, just admire it from a distance. Can he kill you? Yes. Is he going to? No. Do run from the big spiders though, christ they are scary.
P.S. Step on your shoes and then shake them a bit then use your hand to check for spiders before putting them on.
As an Australian my recommendation is to never go outside.
I'm not even from australia and I think it should be absolut common knowledge to NEVER go into uknown waters
Especially with all the saltys around
It's not beceause they are litteraly everywhere, but they COULD be everywhere
Just not worth the risk
@@jonaswerner8480 Yeah exactly. And they're really quite common in certain parts of Australia, especially the Northern Territory, but you'll never know there's one there until it's too late. Every now and then a tourist comes to Australia and gets eaten by a crocodile.
The Southern half of Australia has few to no crocodiles, but crocs are not the only dangerous fresh water creature, there are bull-sharks too
@@CynicallyDepressedx Kinda funny talking about this, since today I will go swimming in a lake and wont have to worry that anything in it will try to eat me
I'm very thankfull for that
Can you shoot a cassowary if it comes at you, though?
Australia is that real life RPG island you stumble upon where the enemies are OP and 10-20 levels above you, even the plants and flies.
I wonder how speedrunners would deal with that.
@@victuz Easy if you’ve got an Aboriginal to carry your party.
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@@karisumataichoumaybe back in the day but most of us ain’t gonna be able to do shit 😭
@@dayj5221nah black as boys got you covered 😂
As an Aussie I must say, these animals are NOT monsters, they are our babies
This reminds me of the;
"My dog doesn't bite, don't worry."
The dog: F*cking cerberus.
Baby monsters?
Ya babies are monsters.
They enslaved this person
If the "monsters" are your babies, does that mean Aussies are "monsters"?
It's actually insane how many invasive species are in Australia. Like, how does one release 2-ton water buffalo
There’s 3 water buffalo just down the road from there usually just chillin in the damn but occasionally you’ll see them playing with the horses that share the paddock
we're only human
The audio to this video is suspect, that the "voice" is entirely artificial, what do you random people think.?
Just thank the English for bring all the invasive species
Water buffalos weigh 1,200lbs or a little over a half ton. 1 US ton= 2000lbs so 2 tons= 4,000 lbs
as an Aussie when you said the man was attacked by the most dangerous bird my mind went to the Magpie
I used to go to work with a tennis racquet in my hand here on the Sunshine Coast when I lived in Caloundra. You could see maggies coming at you on the way to the bus stop in the morning during nesting season because they lived in gum trees on a traffic island just across the road from it. I swatted a few like giant mosquitoes in my time. Luckily at night when you get home these ones didn’t bother you. Daylight though? These ones were T-800’s with wings. Magpies strike fear into the heart of any Australian, manliest man, toughest woman or the most fearless feral country kid, more than the spiders, snakes, stone fish, cone shells, cassowaries, blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, bluebottles, irukandji, tiger, bull & great white sharks and Drop Bears ever will. Let’s not get started on the Gympie-Gympie plant. Magpies, “The Terror From The Skies”… they still scare the absolute shit out of me. This country is Metal AF, probably explains why I am too 🤘Stay safe out there mate.
I'm not from Australia, and even my first thought was the corvid magpie. Those are some pissy bastards
@@Lucifurion Carrying a weapon only makes you more of a target. They have long memories and good facial recognition. What you want to do is talk to them, and give them treats.
@@itsamindgame9198 Now I have to Google that immediately.
She’s nearly swoopin season too
In fairness to Australia, praying mantis are already monsters, both literally and figuratively
That's true it's been known the Females have been tearing off the heads of Male Mantis and Camouflage to catch prey with their sharp four limbs🪲🪲.
I wholeheartedly agree Any female who mates and then eats her guys head afterwards is definitely a monster...
They are pretty cool looking though...
They are voracious little bastards. They were brought into Utah to take out all the crickets. They did their job all too well. Insect life here has been like a see saw ever since. The mantis kill everything until there is nothing left to eat and die off starving. Later the prey insects make a comeback and the whole process starts all over again.
Cant even drink Coffee in the morning without being attacked by a huge insect.
Edit: fixing some misspellings
Lolol I’m literally watching the video drinking coffee and look down and this was the pinned comment 🤣
Lmao
Cant have shit in Australia
The food is just taken by tarantulas, cobra Kais, and big mosquitoes.
u can't escape, they're crawl inside ur walls and haunt the darkest corners of ur rooms
Fun fact about wombats; their poo is cube shaped and accidentally hitting one with your car is like hitting a block of concrete.
The poo is like concrete or the wombat?
@@Delightfully_Bitchythe wombat
@@Delightfully_Bitchythe car is like concrete
@@Delightfully_Bitchythe concrete is like concrete
Just as strange, the platypus has hypodermic thorns on it's inner thighs and they inject a poison that lights up your pain sensors like a christmas tree. Pick one up and it will wrap its back legs around your arm to inject you.
"Imagine a vicious, agressive predator with a super strong bite and the size of a tiger". So uh, kinda like a tiger?
yep. only thing as big as tigers in Australia are as you said... tigers
giving you a point of reference for something that you can't see. Its like saying something as heavy as an elephant and you say, so an elephant
Aw shucks… beat me to it
@@DPowered2 Saying "imagine a predator the size of an elephant" would be a point of reference. Saying "imagine a four legged herbivorous mammal with tusks and a trunk the size of an elephant" would just be describing an elephant.
@balrogsareop4773 so tigars are the only aggressive predators with strong jaws? You defeated your own argument with a better one than what I made. Then you take into account this is about animals no longer alive but have exist your point still doesn't make sense
These animals/bugs don’t bother us in Australia unless you bother them (if a spiders in your house it becomes the spiders house)
Eh I haven’t had any problems with spiders tbh except a redback crawled into my stick insect cage luckily none of them got killed
What about that brown snake 🐍?
yea it’s the spiders house till I put out a 359.
Unless it's a huntsman or daddy-longlegs. Daddy-longlegs (yes they're spiders IN AUSTRALIA) are completely harmless, and are actually one of the main predators of redbacks. Huntsman are maybe the freakiest of any spider in Australia, but are also completely harmless. Maybe still take it outside though, those things can grow as big as your hand.
I've heard about and seen them big ass ones the sizes of cats that LITERALLY CHASE YOU. Dude just burn the whole damn country and see the rest of the world lol 🛕🕌🏝🏔🏞
Australia really does make monsters, my uncle Fredrik moved there, and now he's a lawyer.
There needs to be a video on Cichlid fish and the evolutionary trip that species has been on! They've taken hold on almost every continent and are so incredibly diversified that there's a flavor for just about everyone!
Malawi and other rift lakes need more coverage. There are good vids on south american cichlids and other fish wild caught for the aquarium trade.
I really want to see this!
my cat ate my oscar :(
@@Oinker-Sploinker Lmao I'm so sorry :(
This video gets an automatic downvote for the mask.!
There's a reason why Bethesda doesn't make a fallout Australia, because if regular Australia is this scary imagination the things in this video getting a glow up by Rad's or FEV lol 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Forget fighting off rival factions. You would be far too busy fighting off all the freaky wildlife.
@awhellnah__ Eventually they have to bring Fallout to the land that gave us Mad Max. It only makes sense.
I want a Fallout Australia by Obsidian Games. It will definitely top New vegas. Imagine Death claws....but Australian 💀
@@rudhra5957 Australia is already bloody dangerous, and you want a Fallout version? It would be like Hell without the fire and brimstone.
Watching you on camera killed half of the magic of this channel for me.
especially since it was voiced over, you can tell he's not actually talking, and the mask is hella unneccessary. kills credibility imo.
As an aussie, I have woken up to a koala in one of my backyard trees. THE CLAWS ON IT- not as cuddly as you would think.
Walking under those trees at night ... is it an arboreal pig? Is it a mutant donkey? No, from how deep that voice is, it's gotta be a flying hippopotamus!
Lucky you! ❤ so rare to see these days
This video reminds of a recent lecture I had in one of my courses, my professor referenced a research journal called “island biogeography” and explained why species are often so strange on islands due to selected pressures. Essentially, the larger an island is and the closer the island is to a mainland continent is one of the major components of island biodiversity.
Madagascar
What class was this it sounds interesting?
@@sarahthivierge3387 any sort of intermediate ecology course would mention it
@@SlimeJime ok thanks
@@sarahthivierge3387 it was just an basic biodiversity course 😅. I’m a bio student
i bet Australia is gonna make fire breathing spiders soon
We have birds that will pick up burning branches from a bushfire and drop them somewhere else with long grass so all the small animals will run out where the birds can eat them - is that close enough?
"Spitfire" caterpillars don't actually spit fire, just acid, that burns skin and feels like fire.
The female spectre stick insects can fly with their wings but only very short distances. I used to keep the species and it was one of my favourite things about them, they look like little wooden dragons when they fly haha =)
The first one you showed wasn't a turtle frog. It was a puffy rain frog if I remember right. They look similar to a degree, big fat bodies. Only the puffy frog has some color to it. They're quite cute. Also. Kangaroos are just deer who went to jail. If you know the meme it's hilarious and looks really accurate.
Cmon mate, I only drowned 3 people
its a trimming
the photo of the Whites tree frog used under "what the world got" is actually a frog almost exclusive to Australia, with a small range in Indonesia.. like this channel, and i get its not about facts but more general subjects.. but sometimes the inaccuracy is just to great to ignore.. like this case, taking an animal that is almost exclusively Australian and saying its is not from Australia..
Haha yep, i just wrote a comment correcting them on something too. Yes, its entertaining but not always correct
As a Floridian... I'm mildly weary of Australia.... With the amount of travelers who've brought over many invasive species... We are aware we are vulnerable to ending up similar to Australia due to our environment.... But we can't be bothered until there is an actual issue🙄
😂😂😂😂😂
The kind of humans y’all got are enough reason to shut the state down
Did you mean you’re wary of Australia? Cause if so, there’s not a lot of reason to worry. The import/export laws of Australia are very VERY strict, and it’s unlikely any Australian flora/fauna would make its way to Florida and establish a population. 😊
@@skeletonqueenie5269 Im from florida lol Im honestly more worried about what comes on banana boats from south America! We have alot of invasive species here like the brazillian wandering spider that comes from the southern latin countries.
What about the species called "Florida man"?
Worry not, it won't let you become Australia
Australia is a place where every Pokemon transforms into its 2nd form
Pikachu definitely doesn't like being here😂
I often ask myself how indiginous australians survived, and I always reach the same conclution. They where fucking badass
Now for sake of your time, Here's a quick summary:
The reason why everyone say australia is a terrible place and full of dangerous animals, is because in australia has one of if not the most competitive and harshest ecosystem out there, so naturaly many animals there have to adapt to their environments and sometimes in a extreme ways to survive.
You can thank me later :)
So Australia is nothing more than a animal fight club cage match
So what you're telling me is, australia is the end game stage if life is a video game
As an Australian we don't talk about animal fight club.@@Swaggmire215
So Australia is basically, the ULTRA PVP Zone, that Only the best of the best and smartest overall and strongest animals could survive, So you had to have a unique ability or else, you would die or go extinct.
Nah, the most harshest environment title on earth probably goes to the DEEP SEA, ever saw those players down there? The meta down there is literally some eldritch horror
The amount of diversity and unique creatures that existed there (not just today but throughout history) Back in the day there were so many insane creatures. Like INSANE! Giant Komodo dragons, the list goes on. It's facinating.
The Aborigines have a story of a Giant Man Eating Salamander that terrorized them. Given the type of animal life that lives there, it’s believed this isn’t a fictional story like monsters in other cultures and was actually an animal that was very real and the memory of it was preserved by their ancient ancestors. It’s extinct now but they did live in Australia and the story was probably a real life account of ancient humans encountering these giant animals and passing down the story.
@@fist-of-doom487It was probably a Komodo dragon lol
sounds like a megalania (extinct giant komodo dragon)
Now we’ve got a smaller version called a goanna and there not that small and will rush you and climb you like a tree
@@fist-of-doom487 i bet the salamander could have existed. I mean have you seen the giant salamanders from Japan? It's mind blowing. I bet New Zealand had giant eels back in the days. These things just don't fossilize well or ever so it's difficult to find proof certain types of creatures existed.
Evolving against the harsh, competitive landscape will make you a beast
The Puerto Rican Coqui Frog also skipped the Tadpole stage, and also births super tiny fully formed Coqui frogs. And Puerto Rico located in the Caribbean and being hot too, does NOT have endemic venomous fauna, except for some spiders and fuzzy caterpillars.
The part about the insects made my whole body crawl
Australian mainland was home to many different species that are no longer on the mainland or are extinct outright. a lot of these species now are or were located in Tasmania. The culprit was the dingo that was introduced around 3000 yrs ago with the arrival of seafaring aboriginals. Some of the species that were wiped out from the Australian mainland were a number of Quall species, Tasmanian Devils and the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers).
As an Aussie, these are cute not monsters. 😊 I'm glad we don't have bears or wolves or anything like that. 😅 I go camping a lot and it's fine. 😊😊
I'd rather have wolves and bears than giant venomous spiders and snakes. At least you know where their territories are and easier to spot than a spider that can just hide in your house and bite in your sleep if you're unlucky. Also it would be still faster and probably even less painful than dying by the venom of one of Australia's creatures.
@@melonmusk8924 Nahhh, you just have to know how to use bug spray and make loud noises to scare away snakes, it's fiiine. 😆👍
@@melonmusk8924you can go to Indonesia. They have both you mentioned
@@tsuki_moon.1 As I memtioned. RATHER. I none of those close to me.
What about the stories of the big cats that people keep repeating? US soldiers released them and other rumors.
Im sorry did steve age up his voice in 24 hours?😂 now he sounds like a younger version of the narrator 😂
Actually prefer this new Steve voice
Yeah this voice is toned downed but before Steve's voice was way higher then now very annoying
He IS the narrator!
Really?
Three years ago, Steve was the narrator. They’re the same guy
Im never living in Australia. Imagine waking up from bed and having a giant ass insect attack you
I mean my sisters slept with a centipede on her bed somehow it just chose not to bite her
@@Worldly_Pitfall3 she's a special kind of human
I mean to be fair I've only ever had an insect/bug attack me a few times at most in my life (I'm Australian).
@@WyattOShea I'm sorry you have to live there
I'm not lol. It's great here. Good weather most of the year and is very safe for the most part.@@mr.austin8007
I was born in England but have family in Australia
I learned visiting Australia just dont touch anything
Spiders playing dead to try and bite you
Kangaroos are cute but can pack a kick
Tarantulas can find their way in to houses somehow
And cokatoos can rip out a piercing so have fun with that
Everyone should know about the blue ringed octopus
And if your a bit screamish the thrill lizard will give you a shock ..... ahhh I miss australia
You forgot to mention all the 'Joe Blakes'.... Taipan, Death Adder, Re-bellied Black snake, King Brown(kill you in 10 minutes) Copperhead, and some others I've forgotten. Then there is the Sydney Funnel Web (world's deadliest spider?) and lots of rutting camels and wild Buffs. Oh and the odd Salty (crocs) as big as a bus !
And with all the fauna and flora, the thing most likely to kill you in Australia is still the climate. Statistically, any time we have the sort of big bushfire that kills people, twice as many people will have died of heat in the weather leading up to the fire. So if 100 people died in the fire, another 200 died of heat and the news stories just didn't bother to mention them. Dying of heat isn't newsworthy here.
There's one creature that hasn't diversified its physical traits, (other than cosmetic), wherever it has turned up in the world... even in Australia they didn't get bigger, grow fangs, spikes or armored plates.... Humans.
Tbf humans have a pretty broken adaptation when you think about it.
@waterpicker technology... our brain trumps evolved offensive and defensive adaptations.
OH! There's that slurp!! Never been so excited about learning, just my style!!
The bugs are so big in Australia they have HP bars and stats
While Australia may not have the most venomous animals in terms of numbers of species; it does have 20 of the 25 most-venomous snakes, including the top 11 most-venomous. It's also host to several of the most-venomous spiders in the world, with the Funnel Web spider often described as the deadliest in the world; and 7/10 of the most deadly jellyfish.
Inland taipan raise your hand 🖐. Oh wait....
For many years no one has been killed from a spider bite so why need to say that?? Also on average it’s 1-1.5 people a year who die from snake venom so in other words pretty harmless to humans when comparing it to how many animals here have such deadly toxic venom.
U know why our snakes venom is so potent? And it’s just kinda clicked after so many years? It’s because the prey they eat needs to be sedated as quickly as possible so the snake isn’t harmed/scratched/bitten by said mammal cuz they got no limbs or ‘teeth’ to defend themselves with.
Also these amazing wonderful gorgeous snakes provide good nutrition to many of our other native animals, especially the snake babies!!
As a person who has been living in Australia for 10 years already, theyy ain't monsters, they're our children who are smart enough to defend themselves.
Steve definitely an animal from Australia he been going beast mode giving us all this good informative and entertaining content W Steve
If Australia was Gotham City, the turtle frog would DEF be The Penguin!!!!
Love these videos! Especially the coffee slurp at the beginning! But, dude doesn't look old enough for a voice like that! I pictured him different!
Great video though. Definitely want to move to Australia now!
The frog you used in the the first second of the video is native to Australia
loads of Australian native animals have a deep guttural hissing moaning cry. currently i have a mumma possum and her kid nesting under my floor. when they call it sounds like an evil hag laughing, or squealing like a 3pack a day demon
edit, btw tassie devils are tiny
If i heard something like that from under my porch, i'd lose control of all my bodily functions.
Not a fan of possums. They eat the fruit in ur garden and u can’t shoo them away! Good for snake food haha
So, animals in Australia have their own health bars and boss ost?
Hell yeah! Love these long form videos! And Steve seems to have gotten all quiet again... Do bugs scare him?
It's ironic that native Australian bees can't even sting you.
The scorpions are pretty meh too. They gave up the arms race millennia ago.
All of those dangerous critters there and yet the bees are harmless. The irony.
Imagine going back in time to walk through Australia, it would be a really short walk, much shorter then today! Also, megachunk and chonkosaurus, did they make an online pole to give them names?
We just name shit after a few beers.
@@Lucifurion Well, it is the proven method of naming things. I an the one to speak, I prefer to spark an owl and then repair people's PCs. I have no idea how I actually narrowed down 1/10000 problem but I do every time :D
…australia is almost the size of america.. i highly doubt its be a “really short walk”
@@dayj5221 They point is that something would kill you faster then it already does in the modern times. Not a native English speaker?
@@rexrip1080 i am. ur just not good at writing like a native speaker.
Nature ISOLATED crazy AUSTRALIA FOR A REASON, lets keep it that way
Yea, nature
Plate tectonics 🥶
Great country though :).
Interesting. I learned a lot.
Great video, and it's pretty entertaining too!
Ima subscribe. Lezzgoo!
always wondered why your notifications don't show but anyways glad to be back 🙃
If life was a video game, then Australia would be where all the prototype animals would be put
PTR
While Africa would be like a very competitive hardcore server.
Australia is the test server. Africa is the competitive, GSL server.
Please also make a video explain "why is Australia turning normal human into Australian"
Steve’s voice this time is much better.
great episode as always!
Awesome video! I absolutely love your channel!!!
I'm starting to think that Steve and Narrator are the same person. Anyone else?
How can I get my own WATOP face mask? Like the one Steve wears?
Imagine dying because you didn't know you were allergic to honey bee's.
Love Steve's new voice Know I enjoy even better the videos keep up the good work 👍
curious as to how the spider at 19:52 had 10 legs. Must be another Australian anomaly 🤣🤣
Intro 🔥🔥🔥
WATOP is always cool!
I wanna see Australia Vs. The Rain Forest because the rain forest is insane
If i go, it will be to see the night time stars that i never get to see from the northern part of the globe.
I love how the thumbnail implies that Australia is not apart of the normal world that we live in. Makes a lot of sense anyway.
HL1 scientist fear scream was a good touch.
Australia is one of the few land masses that didn't suffer from the flood. So its kept alot of its ancient species
West coat of Australia makes it seem to me like it got hit, just not as bad as everything else.
@@kyleellis1825 actually you are correct. There is a portion of land that was submerged and disconnected from the other continents. But a good land mass stayed in tact
@@kyleellis1825 and it's exactly west of the island I was thinking about
@@NinjutsuSeeker Do you mean Zealandia? The continent that New Zealand is just the peak of a mountain range for?
That's the East coast. I just assumed the other side of Australia got a super tsunami at one point since the west coast is pretty uninhabited/barren.
Those stick insects are bananas ! Could you imagine being in the States ,say Virginia🤷🏼♂️& stepping outside for a smoke & you catch something slowly moving outta the corner of your eye? You walk over to investigate & see one of those ? 😳it would freak me out for a second I’m sure …..I don’t think I’d get close enough to find out if it was harmless or not tho…..no thanks 🤨
There are stick insects in z states.
There are stick insects all around the World. They're all harmless and commonly kept as pets. Also the part about them eating the birds is total bs - they're unable to eat anything other than leaves, cannot even bite.
I got a chance to see the giant wombat fossils and skeletons in a cave tour, they’re massive!!!
Every time I watch your videos, I keep thinking "is this really your voice??". Anyway, I really like your channel, congratulations on the content. Hugs from Brazil (:
*_Nothing wrong here just Australia being Australia_*
Very well researched and made. The extinction of mega fauna was also around the time Lake Mungo dried up. The scientific debate about whether the Aboriginals caused their extinction or the environmental changes continues.... my bet is the environment as fridges etc did not exist and Aborigines only took what they immediately consumed.
but they burnt the land to hunt, changing the environment and killing off the fauna. No different to any other population when the encountered (invaded) a country
I'm little disappointed that you didn't include our owls. But there are so many that you be here at least 4ys. so pretty awesome vid.
That 4,500 year old sea grass is so cool. 4,500 years ago was when Noah's Flood happened. That plant may just be the only living thing to live through nearly all of human history.
Oh no, you are one of those
@@SL-wt8fm it's an fact that an extinction level flood happened, deal with it, nearly all cultures have it in their story's
@@stefthorman8548 floods are common natural disaster, it's not crazy to think many culture would portray it on their folklore. Also, written records should always be taken as a hint, because it is possible when reading a text, that it just may be a legend, or that someone modified the text, or that it uses weird metaphores, or simply, that the author lies. I'd be more impressed if you showed some fossil or geological records of the event to prove your point.
Could you do a video on what color insects’ blood is? I read their blood is clear but I must have smashed a mosquito because the liquid that came out of it was red. So it must have just fed. Since you have a lot of other insect aka “creepy crawling ew” videos I figured why not. Thank you for your time.
yeah mosquito blood is clear if its red thats not their blood its yours
@@melodypond215
That’s what I read. Ok thank you.
they are isolated and allowed to evolve in a large environment. basically generational battle royal.
Thank you for deepening the pitch of Steve’s voiceover
Everything just seems to be so perfect it’s amazing
were platypuses ever released in places outside of Australia?
You can find platypuses in the county of West Mead, Ireland.
Awesome video, I'm not all the way finished yet but just wanted to say I like your videos.
he forgot the bush that its sting will never go away and the pain is so bad it leads anyone who gets stung by it to either un alive themselves or amputate that limb, there was even recorded cases of Full sized male broncos coming into contact with the bush and throwing themselves off cliffs.
Thats so terrifying that gigantic insect. 😭
Steve I like seeing you. If you're going to co-narrate, please do so. I like hearing it. But don't just pitch up the narration audio!
relics of Gondwana exist through out Australia south America Africa Antartica New Zealand and Madagascar
0:04 fun fact: this adorable mammal is Australian, despite being labelled as ‘world’
ahahhahahah "This stick is haunting birds!!!" i loveeee your videosssss
Everytime i see that ancient map, that shows how close Australia was to Antarctica? I wonder if there was any creatures that existed on parts of Antarctica during specific times in global history? Now maybe we can't find evidence due to the drastic changes in the conditions of Antarctica?
Marsupials and other extant species of animals native to Australia, New Zealand and some parts of South America are likely the closest we'll ever come outside of fossils evidence found in Antarctica itself. There are however surviving species of trees and other plants that originally evolved in Antarctica and at one point would have been major components of the forests that used to cover the continent. You can find them specifically in the Valdivian Temperate and Magellanic Subpolar forests on the west side of the Andes in the southernmost parts of South America along with some forests in Australia and New Zealand for example.
Used to love machining 'Southland Siver Beech' timber from NZ Hard to find now. @@FireGeckos
There's good evidence the monotremes were native to Antarctica and that's why Australia only has the echidna and platypus. I guess we'll learn a lot more when global warming clears the ice off Antarctica - too bad about the cities that will be underwater, but we'll have access to a lot of cool fossils!
why are these pictures not upsidedown
good question
It was flipped for our viewing ease
have learnt more from you than any of my school teacher could teach Thanks. Just remember if you are tough you;ll survive. Btw Australia is the continent that time forgot. it took 50 for the Healesville sanctuary to breed ONE platypus. Cheers
Woah this vids alot longer than usual but im happy for it enjoy the influx of new subscribers and viewers :)
Tasmanian devils aren’t actually predators or aggressive at all. They are actually scavengers and prefer to eat already deceased animals and bugs and they will rarely actually hunt for their own prey. They are also pretty shy in the wild and just seem to be aggressive because of the growling noise they make, they are also becoming endangered due to a disease that is effecting their face and breathing, you can see this on the faces at 3:08.
Also the lizard shown at 28:08 is called the Stumpy tailed lizard, when it is threatened it will turn into a U shape and face it’s tail and head both at the predator, this gives it a 50% increase of survival as the predator will often believe that the tails is the head and rip the tail of rather than the head, they can also walk backwards to better this effect. The lizard shown at 27:25 is a Blue tongue lizard also btw
I saw a comment that said they spread tumors among themselves via biting, which at first I didn't think it was possible, but then I investigated, and yeah it's a real thing??? I've never heard of infectious cancer but somehow tasmanian devils made it work??? I'm still surprised by this
Devils aren't aggressive with humans who raise them in captivity, but in the wild, they constantly fight over scraps, territory, mates, everything. They can hunt or scavenge, just like most carnivores. The wounds are not the disease. They're from fighting. Sadly, the fighting spreads the disease that's killing them all.
@@carmandirda 💕
The ancient devils could have been effected by insular dwarfism well not just gigantism.
Maybe it's those venomous plants they polinate. 🐝
7:38 this clip just brought back all my childhood memories
Ice Age 4 mightve had to be my favorite movie back then
Australia really is overrated when comes to having scary animals… spiders and snakes are scary, sure. But personally I find mountain lions and grizzly bears to be much scarier
Yeah tbh Africa has a much more dangerous wildlife than Australia.
hey those small thing will kill just as easily as a mountain lion or bear if not easier and faster with no signs before hand so uh now imagine an Australian version of a bear or mountain lion
Lion or bears doesn't just appear randomly around you and at best it'll kill one two people before they got shot down.
Meanwhile venomous snake and spider can crawl to your bed or right into your toilet bowl and kill you when you're most vulnerable in a slow and painful death.
@@JeSt4m Honestly I'd rather die by venom than get eaten alive by hyenas or wild dogs.
@@JeSt4m Also here's someone's answer from Quora that I somehow can't link because UA-cam removes comments with links for some reason.
"Well…we don’t have lions, cheetah, elephants, rhinos, hippos, gorillaz, chimps, hyenas, and a whole host of large wild animals. These are amongst the most dangerous animals in the world, never mind Africa.
While our snakes are more venomous….we count deaths per year in single digits…one hand…. while the African Puff Adder I believe is about 32,000 deaths.
We have kangaroos, wallabies and ….wombats. I don’t believe anyone has been killed by a wombat unless it fell off a ladder and landed on someone.
We don’t have tsetse flies.
We don’t have malaria …. still the most dangerous organism to humans on the planet, at over 400,000 world wide.
The only thing I can say about Australia as being the most dangerous Australian creature is one that inhabits Australia’s most popular location….not going to the toilet…or drinking beer…or ….driving cars…but the beach. The Chironex Fleckeri or Box Jelly. Even a minor sting is bad enough but a major sting is fatal. It is so bad that the Ambulance and the Life Savers carry the anti-venene because every second counts.
The rest…well…they do try to avoid humans. Except crocs. Crocs will just march right through your front door and take you out while you’re munching on your Weet-Bix. But Africa has them too."
It's so incredible how many times humans make the exact same mistakes.
We don't make the same mistakes. We ARE the mistake!!
Seeing is believing
@@MMZ_ThumperNah, to say we are the mistake would be dramatizing, but I understand where you're coming from.
It is very clear tho that we will repeat nearly any faulty behavior.
We were given a good hand to play a major role and since the arrival of civilization, we abused it again and again.
@@MMZ_Thumper No, SOME humans are, like you.
Don't drag the rest of us down to your level.
Do an episode on box jellyfish, the chironex fleckeri, and their tiny cousins the irukanji.
Thanks for going back to making good videos
I'd like to see these relocation programs get planned for newly formed volcanic islands. Have the entire ecosystem planned out, only built using endangered species. That way the whole island is a back up plan for a bunch of plants/animals/fungus.
We would only mess it up lol
@@poz21983 So what? As long as we keep flying birds/long distance swimmer off the siland, no ecosystem is being harmed except a brand new one with absolutly nothing but volcanic rock on it.
They take centuries normally to even begin to have an ecosystem.
Its Australia
the common ancestor of the stick insect is tree beard, yeah from the lord of the rings
source: Wahlai would i ever lie to you?
Thanks again for sharing 😁