Reaction To 50 Photos That Prove Australia Is Not Like Any Other Country
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This is my reaction to 50 Photos That Prove Australia Is Not Like Any Other Country
In this video I react to photographs showing why Australia is a unique country includes wildlife, animals, nature and other interesting things.
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Holding a blue ringed octopus on your bare hand is far more serious than just stupid. It is suicidal.
That's crazy they only get pretty when they are cranky , and they wouldn't feel the bite that will stop them breathing
@@ravenfeader but they get a great insta photo 🙄
Not wrong if you can see the blue rings then it’s already in defence mode and ready to bite
That happened 6 plus years ago and some change
When I was a kid (in the 50s and 60s) we occasionally found a blue ringed octopus at the beach and would play with it getting it to display the blue rings. Then we heard a scuba diver put one in his wetsuit against his stomach to bring back and it bit him. We were sternly told by our mothers to never handle them again.
I’ve lived in Australia most of my life and camped and hiked extensively. Never had a problem with wildlife. Been living in the US for ten years and also hiked and camped. Coyotes, bears, truly aggressive rattle snakes that come right at you…
Lived in the city in Australia then champ? Camping and hiking is not like living in the bush. Ever been chased by a Tiger Snake?
the wildlife in Australia is a fallacy. I spent 17 years living within 100m of the bush and saw a red belly black snake once.
Australians don't think or care about wildlife, it's foreigners that hype it up. Mind you, there is no shortage of shit that can kill you here.
@nickvegas2459 .....we're taking the piss out of the yanks and it keeps em away
The unusual looking tree is a strangler fig. It starts as a seed that gets dropped in a fork in a tree by a bird. It drops roots down to the ground. It grows quickly because it gets access to sunlight from being perched up high from the start, whereas other trees that start on the forest floor are in shade. As the roots get thicker, it strangles the original tree (hence the name), the original tree dies and the strangler fig remains. There are some huge ones in the rainforests of northern NSW and QLD.
Those megabats, flying foxes, have a lot of similarities with a primate - forward facing eyes, binocular vision, that hand-like limb (with a type of "thumb" extending onto the length of the wing), etc. Biologically, they are somewhat similar to lemurs rather than other bats. They are actually quite sweet (hence nickname "sky puppies").
So they're more related to primates than vampire bats? They may be sweet in nature but they still carry the lyssavirus that is related to rabies
There really cute too when you see there faces
They are not so cute when they fly over and dump a piss down the front of your shirt. Happened to my son only a couple of hours ago while we were walking the dogs. I am still laughing. @@4kays160
Agree - they chose the most terrifying photo of one 😂 but if you google “spectacle flying fox” they’re actually very cute.
To fruit farmers, they're flying vermin.
So proud to be an Aussie
Australian here, 😂the look on your face is priceless 😂😂😂🎉thanks for sharing, this made my day
The first photo of the goana was taken ouside my house in Cairns Australia, there is a video also that I took of it on the screen outside my bathroom window with a kangaroo in the backyard and my freaked out cat.
Big lizard is a Perente also known as a Bungarra . Australia's biggest monitor and second biggest in the world .EDIT - the blue ringed octopus usually , but not always , makes its markings more apparent when stressed or about to bite . Its venom is lethal . Aussies dont mess with the Blue ring Occy . We leave that to the uninformed tourists .
Yeah could almost put money on the fact that it's tourists holding the blue ring.. or just dumb ass aussies as we have our fair share of those too 😂
it's a lace monitor not a perentie and bungarra is aboriginal for sand goanna in the perth region of western australia. also the prentie is the 5th largest monitor lizard in the world the lace monitor is the 7th largest.
Correct about the blue-ringed octopus, but incorrect on the lizard. It's a lace monitor.
The perentie is desert specialist and has very different markings.
The strange moth with the weird extra legs is a Creatonotos gangis, found in South East Asia (so keep an eye out for it) and Australia. Those "extra legs" are inflatable appendages (also called coremata or hair-pencils) that the moth pumps up, and are used to spread pheromones that the lady moths find attractive.
That is the stuff of nightmares for me 😱
@@Amanda-kd3cm Yeah, they are kind of freaky. But then, if you were a lady moth, you'd find them irresistible.
Look up emu egg carving, there are multiple colours throughout the shell
That weird feeling you're having is called panic
The high price of cigarettes has caused the habit of smoking to decrease, especially amongst school aged kids where the habit used to traditionally start. Also almost zero cigarette butts to be seen on the ground. Untold reduction in bushfires due to butts, ash and sparks flying out of car windows over vast distances and remote areas. Also news items of house fires and deaths caused by smokers falling asleep are a long distant memory ( and I'm 66). Far easier for migrants from heavy smoking countries to give up cigarettes due to less smokers around to tempt them either directly or with the presence of cigarette smoke wafting up their nostrils. Less hospital beds taken up by smoking related diseases and the extra money paid by those that do smoke is contributed direct to add to hospital funding for further constructions and equipment. Plus, on a personal note, no more cigarette smoke irritating sinuses and eyes of those who don't smoke. I remember going to work on trains, trams and buses during the 70's and being in a sea of choking smoke when living Melbourne. Now I can detect someone smoking in a stopped line of traffic about 15 to 20 cars along with no wind assistance. Makes me realise how far germs on the breath can be carried along on smoke plumes.
Gack!!
Cane toads are an introduced species. They're a huge problem in north Queensland and are spreading further south. North Queenslanders swerve across the road deliberately to mow them down so they can hear the huge popping noise as the cane toads explode. Gross but true 😅
Yeh they arrived at our place in nth NSW a couple of years ago. Damn pain they are. Some of the large wild birds are taking care of them though. But have to check the yard every night.
12:20 that is a strangler fig, it pretty much does what the name suggests. It climbs up the host tree as a vine and closes around it. There are different types of strangler fig, some just eat the host tree as pictured, while others actually provide extra support for the host tree to help in strong winds.
Thank you. My grandparents used to live in Wingham, NSW and my mum took me out to Wingham Brush and we saw these trees. I couldn't remember the name of them.
We don't get the Komodo Dragon here in OZ but we get Goanna's 😊!
The large lizards are Goanna's found over most of Oz. The tree in the Daintree is actually a Strangler Fig Vine that used a tree as its host to climb on. Sometimes the tree dies and rots but
the vine lives on having developed its own trunk to support its weight. These sights are not uncommon in many far northern tropical forests.
I live in Bellthorpe (mountain range bewteen Woodford and Maleny in Sunshine Coast hinterland), in a forest that is semi-rainforest and we have one amazing one at the creek that you can climb inside. It must be pretty old because when the vines are incredibly thin when they first start growing on a tree.
There was a news story a few years back about a fella in Indonesia. He checked to make sure there was nothing in the toilet bowl, but as soon as the poor bugger sat down a massive python shot through the pipe and grabbed hold of his crown jewels and wouldn't let go. He was stuck on the dunny for something ridiculous like 17 hours, until someone heard his cries for help and rescued him.
A lot of the bigger creatures are located in the tropics or in Queensland...which is only a smaller portion of Australia in the north.
We also get them inland as well.
Yes, we have the 18 foot long prehistoric Earthworms.
Unfortunately the most biodiverse lowland tropical rainforest was cleared years ago. Mainly for unproductive cane fields and cattle grazing. We can also thank the cane growers for bringing in the bloody cane toads against the advice of scientists and nature experts at the time. Those ignorant attitudes still around today. Within One Nation and the National Party.
and that 'smaller' portion of AU is about 5 times the size of the UK
This is a genuine suggestion, and something I'd guess you've never heard of.
Australia once lost a civil war, against Emus.
We don't mention THAT war....
You amaze me how much interest you have in Australia . You are a lovely person .
I've had a big goanna ( a type of giant lizard) nearly 2 metres long chase, me angry and hissing (the goanna) because I tried to shoo it away from near the house in Mid-Gippsland, Victoria. I have never run so fast in all my life! Also, in West Gippsland there are giant earth worms that grow up to 3 metres long.
I am born & bred in Australia & I still get shocked & scared by the sizes of things! So I can only imagine what other countries think when they see these images 😮 I love watching the reactions!!! Best country in the world though! Every day is an adventure 😂
The last two birds were a Scrub Turkey (fairly harmless but makes a mess raking the garden looking for food or to build a nest) and a White Ibis (commonly called a bin chicken because it literally goes through rubbish bins looking for food and throws trash everywhere or it steals food directly from the table)
One night only: The final battle, between the bush chook & the plucky bin chicken.
Trash Turkey, Bin Chook, Rubbish Raptor.
My mates old man used to call ibis “dump ducks”. ❤️🇦🇺
@Tuokool great minds an fools, don’t forget the fools!❤️🇦🇺
@@thejam69I grew up with, “great minds think alike. Idiots seldom differ” 🤣
I know about a male truckie (truck driver) who was interviewed on national tv after a snake bit him in his equipment. He was in the middle of nowhere and desperate on night. He stopped at a public toilet. He didn't know there was a venomous snake in the toilet bowl until he tried using it. Fortunately he made it to hospital in enough time to save his life. Of course he didn't show people where he was bitten during his interview.
Tbf as Australian I never see most of these things,
Trust me the tiny geko wants to kill you. It just cant.
😂
The food thing is not true, we pay a fortune for food now days
50grams of tobacco is around $120aud
It sucks doesn't it!! The last time I bought 50 grams of Drum rolly tobacco in Sydney in the very early 1970s it was 80 cents!!!! A pack of 20 Marlboro Reds was 30 cents!
@@davidbrown9015 dam right 90+% tax on ciggys is aus its friggen crazy and yes i remember paying around the same in the early 80's. showing our age hahaha
A packet of 40 cigarettes will cost you $80.00 and for 30's $60, Australia has one of the highest cost of tobacco in the world, when I worked in the N.T. I got up from the couch to find a brown snake right where my feet had been so I got a pair of kitchen tongs and grabbed it behind the head and threw it out my back door, it's ok I got the tongs back the next morning
@michaelrogers2080 depends on which state you are in as well, I was quoting S.A. prices, in the N.T. if you go remote you can expect to go much higher
@michaelrogers2080 winfield red 50 mg tabacco is $140.00, i live in Brisbane..
@@nathaliepenney might try them lol, Peter Jackson Original Blue cost me $79.95
Bond Street 30s $45 Canberra. @@nathaliepenney
The python fighting and then eating a croc actually happened at Lake Moondarra just out of Mt Isa in north west Queensland.
The croc was a small freshwater croc so it wasn't a big saltie. There is a video on YT of it happening.
I have been swimming in Lake Moondarah (Mt. Isa) many times and yes, the fresh water crocodiles at nothing to be afraid of.
@@tinytenor I grew up in Mt Isa as a kid in the 60s. Lost count of the number of times I swam in Lake Moondarra.
One day while swimming there I felt something brush my back, turned around to see a 12’ water python continue on its journey. Wasn’t interested in me. Must have had a big barramundi for lunch. 😎
Dampier was a DH, we think we are all Blessed in Australia, The Animals are Unique.
The Dutch bumped into Australia dozens of times before Captain Cook and never claimed it
I live in Australia a pack of cigarettes cost me in Cairns Queensland Australia are $32.50 Australian dollars 😢
Most of the giant sized creatures are found in far North Queensland and above. A packet of 30’s (cigarettes) I think cost around $60.
As an Aussie, I call bs on the pack of ciggies. That’s about 1.2 million dollars worth of food at our supermarket.
😂 Have you bought fags lately? They are close to a million bucks each.
Those birds in the last photo are Ibises, but we call ‘em; Bin Chickens, because they infest areas around fast food joints and tear into the rubbish bins looking for a feed. Emus can be extremely deadly, as they have huge talons on their feet, with which they can easily disembowel you if you’re not careful. Kangaroos can do some damage too though, so propbably they’re equally dangerous if they decide to attack you. Thankfully that isn’t often. About 20 years ago some lunatic in the UK got a whole lot of people over there up in arms about how Kangaroos were in danger of extinction because we hunt them too much. Biggest load of bollocks ever man!
We had some relatives of friends of ours come from Glasgow for a visit and they were saying over dinner how sad this was, so after dinner we took them next door to see the wild ones that lived in the vineyard, then to a farm about half a mile away to see the mob that hung around there, and to one or two more places where we knew there are wild Kangaroos. We lived about 40 miles from the centre of Melbourne city back then, in a place called the Yarra Valley. We though it was hilarious that they actually believed that Kangaroos were an endangered species, but now I just think how dangerous it is that the Media can convince people of the most outrageously untrue things, simply because most people never think that the Media would EVER make stuff up.
I was born in England, grew up in NZ, and have lived here in Victoria Australia for the past 42 years. In those four decades, I have only seen a few (less than 6) snakes in the wild and like I said, we lived in the countryside. I've never seen a Funnel Web spider, or Blue Ringed Octopus, so it’s not exactly like we see these things daily. Kangaroos are probably the most commonly seen wild animals here, which makes the whole ‘endangered species’ thing even sillier.
There are many wildlife carers in Australia, and many of them look after orphaned baby kangaroos. I know all baby animals are cute but there is nothing so cute as a baby kangaroo. Just heart-meltingly lovely. Once they get bigger they’re introduced to other kangaroos so that they can go out and live in the wild.
I paid 94$ for a 40 pack of JPS red in Moranbah about 2 months ago. Most expensive pack of smokes I’ve ever bought.
It is a emu egg
2:45 Cane Toads an invasive species of toad native to South America. There are no true toads native to Australia. Plenty of frog species even some that resemble toads but no true toads. Introduced to Australia to try and control the Cane Beetle population. Unfortunately they were successful against the beetle but then became an even bigger problem. Cane Toads are a serious problem in northern Queensland.
Toads are a problem all over the top half of aus now mate.
Plot twist .. children in Australia actually look like bats 🙃
Only until they turn 18 then they slowly start coming human and by 60 odd they’re fine ....
The tree is a vine that has covered & killed the tree inside
I'd be more concerned of a Cassowary than an Emu!
I had an Eastern Brown in my bathroom 3 days ago, neighbour had a red-billed black cruise through his house. It is an "oh shit" moment, but then its remaining calm ie. everyone except tourists know not to fuck with them. :) Love your reactions mate.. Im 6 hours off the coast in NSW. If you ever make it, drop in. :)
I woke up with a python on my bedside table earlier this year.
@@thisgirl5539 Tis the season . .stay safe :)
My dog, a mini foxie,bought a brown into the lounge room one afternoon a while ago. Fun time.
William Dampier = ancient trip advisor 😂
You maybe interested to know that koalas are the only non primate mammal to have fingerprints almost identical to humans.
Emu vs Kangaroo, idk. Could go either way. But The Kangaroo and The Emu are both on our Coat of Arms. It has some latin, that means ‘Always Moving Forward’. These two Animals represent our Coat of Arms because both animals can only walk forwards, they cannot go backwards, hence the always moving forward quote, and the reason they were chosen to be on our Coat of Arms.
That thing you couldn't identify is called a feather star, they look super majestic in the water
What is more important than checking your shoes prior to putting them on is checking your full face motorcycle helmet for Hunstman spiders.................trust me, I've learnt from experience.
As an Australian I have not seen that bad, and big lizards are rare. I never see insects that big tbh, those would be rare
Rare? All over the top half of aus.
I turned over a rock looking for gold on the edge of a massive mine and accidentally woke up 2 of those barking geckos and they tried to attack me😂. I never knew what they were called though
Yes its an EMU egg, you can buy them for eating, cooking, roughly about $30. Just like a duck egg. as it has a large yolk, they usually lay in August. got no idea how long it takes to boil them, but I hear that 1 can make 3 cakes.
One single cigarette costs almost $2 aud. That’s approximately $2.50 American
A lot of us are obviously taking the piss. The colour of the blue ringed octopus was stupidly wrong.
Its all true .
We try to avoid, avoid hurting these neighbours.
If we come across any , they have right of way.
How much is a 50 pack of Horizon cigarettes?
Horizon Blue 50s
Price $99.99 . Peace out.
Americans have “Trash Pandas”, in Australia we have the common “Bin Chicken”, or the common Ibis😊🥳😳😎
Crazy thing is the slow moving millipedes you'll find when you wake in the morning on the ceiling. I just shake my head n laugh ,l mean an animal so dumb and pointless( sure God has a place and purpose for them though)...just let it be and try not to tread on it or take it outside😂
Dude that flying fox is cuuuuuuttte. I would love to see one up that close. They just eat fruit and pollen and flowers. Adorable.
A packet of 20 cigarettes in the 90s were under $3 dollars now theyre around $50 dollars. A 50 gram pack of tobacco is over $90 these days high end tobaccoin 50 grams is over $110.
Roos aren't TOO bad when you hit them, do lots of damage sure especially to cars. It's the flippin wombats that scare the truckies - those buggers can rip the front suspension clean off if you hit them hard enough....... oh, and echidnas. How to ruin brand new rubber, get one of those quills stuck in your wheel...............
What about an animal that looks like a beaver ...has a beak...lays eggs...suckles its young in a pouch... has venomous spurs on its rear legs....and lives in rivers and creeks....
LOL, "That's the scariest thing" about a flying fox. One pissed on my son a couple of hours ago while we were out walking the dogs, straight down his front as it flew over us. We see dozens in a walk.
25 pack of ciggies is around $50, and a 50 pack is around $75? this is what friends have told me (I don't smoke)
This video highlights the reason the vast majority of the population live in Melbourne and Sydney. Lol
Most of these creatures live up Nth in the tropics.
I don't know why I comment on your channel. I have followed you for over two years and make normal, non reactionary comments once or twice a month and you never even thumbs p, let alone comment but anyways....
I have spent my entire 51 years DIRECTLY on the Australian east Cost as my father did and his father going back seven or eight generations and have been around Blue Ringed Octopus since I could walk and have never picked one up - because I'm not a complete retard.
Not sure that you mentioned the Cassowary, another very large flightless bird here in tropical North Queensland, Australia, has a very bad attitude and is more than capable of disembowelling humans. Extreme caution required !!
A pack of rothman gold 40s costs me $72aud. Absolute fucking joke, not even meth dealers have that much mark up
With the exception of sharks and crocodiles in certain areas, nothing in Australia is going to actually attack and maul you, they will only attack if they have no other option. Wearing good boots with thick soles, gloves where necessary, just generally being aware, you'll be pretty well protected. There are no bears, wolves, big cats, hippos, elephants. If you were trapped in a zoo and all the animals broke loose it wouldn't be the Australian animals that would hunt you down.
3:30 atm for a pack of 30, $54 at the supermarket, fuel station $60ish or more, tobbaco is rather expensive these days but go further but still it's expensive because tax reasons, considering buying smokes from other countries duty free is like $10 at most sooo yeah
Cigarettes in Australia are exorbitant prices about $50au for a pack of 30. I gave them up years ago thankfully
A pack-a-day smoker will be spending over $900 a month or $10,000 per year.
You'd be surprised at how rarely we actually see these things, you know? It's like telling you to beware of squirrels or grouse. I mean, yep they live in the same country as you but you don't see them often. The 1 insect I despise but leave alone because they aren't venomous is the large Huntsman Spider.... and that is because they eat other insects like roaches or little animals like geckos (which poop and pee on everything, they're disgusting critters).
That said, I can go across the street and if I time it right (depending on the season) I will see as many as 10 koalas within about a 1 km walk near the creek by my house. Since it's an area left wild, I see cockatoos and lorikeets at sunset, galahs in the morning, bats late in the afternoon or evening, possums crawl on my fence, and blue tongue lizards live in our rock retaining wall. None of those animals are dangerous (well, you don't want to pet the bats because of the possibility of disease transmission but they're cool to watch) .
I'm only guessing, but I reckon that half of those snake are nonvenomous. The one you couldn't even pee into the toilet was by the look of it a carpet python. I've seen a carpet python that was just shy of 4m long & as think as coke can. Absolutely beautiful serpents. I live for a brief time in a caravan in a van park. Under my van lived an old rock python. I'd see him every day, until he killed & ate a guests' Maltese dog. Of course I had to back the snake & blamed the dog's owner. 😪
I'm in northern NSW. I have just about all of them in and out of my house right now Dec 23. So far we have removed 7 pythons (relocated.) Frogs live in 2nd shower with hole in fly screen to go in and out at night. Woke up a few nights ago with one of those giant spiders a few inches from my face. . I took a photo of one drinking milk from a glass. We feed the possums so they don't come inside also the bandicoots and the water dragons (lizards). There is usually enough fruit on the trees to feed the large bats and enough insects for the microbats. Not far enough north for the crocs thank goodness. lol
Flying Foxes or literally just sky puppies, they're adorable and super, super important for the ecosystem. We have them fly over our house at night, and sometimes they hang around in the trees near our place as well. There's colonies of them you can visit and it's amazing. We stan the sky puppies in this home. :D
You know they carry the lyssavirus (related to rabies) right?
@@XaviRonaldo0 Yes, which is why I don't try and handle them, and if I found one injured there are trained and vaccinated wildlife rescue workers I can call. :)
There is a huge colony of them in Commonwealth Park,right in the middle of Canberra. I doubt Lyssa is a real concern. @@claireeyles7560
@@XaviRonaldo0 Ive copied and pasted this from another comment on this video i replied to
moved from WA to Victoria, got bitten by a fruit bat and found out 8 days later (so far too late) thats one of the only two animals in aus to go get a rabies shot if they bite you
(This happened as a woman approached me on the street in hysterics about an animal in her car, after checkin it out she had the fruit bat holding onto her steering column so i wrapped it in a towel, and it still managed to bite me, then set it on a tree and it flew off happy as larry) But yeah growing up in WA i was always told nothing in australia carries rabies, nothing happened but I will say, if you are within arms reach of fruitbats they smell like the worst pile of vomit you've ever smelled in ya life.
@@minirampchronicles yeah we technically don't have rabies but lyssavirus is related. I'm not sure if it's fatal though like rabies is.
I live in Australia, Superwog was on free tv for a short time,but they stopped. Where are these guys now,on you tube.?
Raising tax on beer and ciggies
Could cost labour the next election. It adds to inflation as well. Dumb move.
Supermarket 1 pkt of Winfield 25s $47.50
Bloody Goanna scared the shit out of me goldfields wa l was walking to carpark as l walked through the gate the top of fence cast a shadow l almost stepped on a 2 MRT Goanna that took of throwing rocks and dust i jumped 6 ft in the air when I calmed down some blokes were laughing hysterically who seen what happened they hang around the camp mess hall the cooks feed them left over chooks 😮😂😂😂😂
We lived way out on the land when I was a kid, and we had a pet Carpet Python that lived in the roof. The huge living area had large wooden beams across the roof. He would come down and wrap himself around it to watch tv, or listen to us talking or playing music. Come to think of it, we never gave him a name. Can anyone suggest one? We just smiled and either said good morning, or afternoon etc, whatever was relevant. We never had a mouse or rat problem, if you can believe that😆
I was sitting in a cafe in Aussie, Quensland, and just out the window were some houses, one had a small tree by the front hedge, and what looked like a tennis ball came down from the top of the tree on a web and dangled for a while wiggling its legs, yep I thought, I've arrived.
They were unaware tourists picking up the poisonous octopus. Lucky to still be alive.
Strangler figs grow up and around other trees which eventually die leaving the naturally grown scaffolding of the fig standing.
4:03 that packet of smokes (packet of 40 smokes) cost about 50-60 dollars.
in the last pic we have the "bin chicken" aka a white ibis , commonly found raiding garbage bins and a black rooster ,obviously an open air diner but where ? no idea , but they get food somewhere nearby ,if not from the leftovers on plates
That blue ringed octopus is either a plastic one or the hand is plastic or the guy is dead. The blue rings are fired up as a warning. This is exactly how blue ringed octopus have killed every victim. Oh isn't that cute let me pick him up. You don't even feel the bite. There is no cure but it doesn't matter if there was, because you wont even make it out of the water alive, the only creature more venomous in Australia is a species of cone shell, also with no cure
That last shot. A “Bin chicken” vs a “Scrub turkey” fukn funny
8:29 One of the worst things about the blue ring octopus is the blue rings mean it's agitated ad likely to bite. The next worse bit is you can't feel if you got bitten. The worst part is you are likely to die if you don't get treatment fast.
Don't touch em ever.
Gosh you made me laugh. All those ittyy bitty creatures. And the hairy legs. Mostly though, Australian wildlife is not out to get you and will only bite/ sting in slf defence. A big red too might though!
yes. an emu egg Always check your shoes, especially if left outside.
England's biggest problem is they kept all the Gentlemen and sent all the Real Men out to Australia.
Come to Tassie! We don’t have many/any of these animals. Just spiders and poisonous snakes.
Imagining that fighting Bush Turkey and Ibis bin chicken insulting each other in Oz accents and that other bin chicken on the table calling for bets to be laid.
The tree is a kind of strangler fig. Basically, a bird eats the fruit and poops the seeds while flying. The seed falls onto an existing tree and germinates in the canopy. It grows down towards the ground enveloping the tree as it grows. Eventually it grows to surround the tree and slowly strangles it to death. The host tree dies and rots away leaving the hollow, lattice like tree that you see in the photo.
Flying foxes are actually pretty friendly and cute. Kind of like dogs or cats
Aussie born and bred and I kid you not, I had no idea a Galah was called something else. SMH
Honestly these are real shots but most aussies rarely see most of these. It is illegal to hand raise aussie fauna unless you are a "wires"( wildlife rescue volunteer or approved by same)(it does happen though)
emus and kangeroo's are about the same danger level they'll both disembowel you if they're threatened enough
When i quit smoking cigarettes they were about $55 for 25 cigarettes but it goes up every year
That tree was a strangler fig. What happens is that the tree grows up wrapping itself around another one. Looks like two of them wrapped around each other!