Is Australia Trying to Kill You?
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
- Australia: An entire continent so infested with deadly creepy crawlies and creatures of all kinds, it seems like it’s actively trying to kill you. But is the natural world really any more dangerous down under than anywhere else?
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Sources:
Living Hazards Database
“Here are the animals REALLY most likely to kill you in Australia”, Australian Geographic
"Inland Taipan", Australian Museum
“What are the world’s deadliest animals?”, BBC
A 2008 review in the scientific journal PLoS
"The truth about white-tail spiders", Australian Geographic
“World’s deadliest spider: the funnel web,” Australian Geographic
“What is the most venomous marine animal?”, National Ocean Service
“Welcome to Australia, a land of creatures out to kill you… maybe”, The Conversation
“An Update on Fatalities Due to Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the United States (2008-2015).” Forrester, Weiser, and Forrester 2018.
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We should never have allowed kangaroos to drive.
We must stop the roos from getting their drivers licence
Hahahaha this just made my day😂😂😂
They just kick the accelerator too hard.
Ther're prone to road rage with all the steroids those buff bucks take 😂
Those kangaroo bars attached to the front of cars don't help either! Booze bus for humans, bars for roos :S
This seems like something an inland taipan would say...
Im not falling for the inland tipan propaganda
My thoughts exactly!
like your username and pic, hilarious
Hahahaha
+
_Laughs upside down_
*laughs in australian*
Go away
Laughs at the fact that people seemed to have missed the opportunity to use the dislike button upside down in this whole thread
I see you everywhere in comments XD how much time do you actually have!? XD
@@ulfstag4834 Well considering that the dislike button no longer works, what's the point?
In Australia, the reason there isn’t that many deaths is because we are aware of the dangers and don’t put ourselves in a situation where we can encounter these animals. For example, no one goes swimming in our northern rivers because you 100% will be eaten but a croc. No one goes swimming in box jellyfish waters, but we do ride kangaroos.
I remember going on vacation and there are signs everywhere keeping you from doing stupid things
This seems suspiciously like what I think Australia would want me to think... right before it kills me.
You can fall into the sun too
Or into Ms. Piggy
kremit the frog The danger of falling into the sun is minimal if you exercise sensible precautions.
@Ungregistered User Yeah but Australia is closest and going to burn up first. Australia regularly hits 14-15 on the UV index. Before you ask, yes they are using the same scale that America uses except ours ends at 12+ and to hit anything above a 13 you need to climb the Rocky Mountains. For reference a 15 on the UV index means your average european skin tone will burn in less than 15 minutes without protection and Pale Folks and Infants will burn in less than 5.
They are falling into the sun.
omg
Kremit you silly
the animals play with psychological warfare
The animals play with chemical warfare in Australia!
@@gazzah1607 , I'm pretty sure he means that this whole video is a ploy by Australian Animals to get you to drop your guard.
Did the studies include injuries or attacks or just deaths?
Sounds like deaths are rare but bad injuries are more common
I second this question
I agree. There are much more injuries and attack reports then there are deaths from animals in Australia.
If it flies and is black and white it will attack you. If its wings make sound when it flies it will attack you.
If it has more than 2 legs it will attack you, if it has 2 legs and 2 fore limbs it will attack you, if it has no legs it will attack you.
Some of the sheep are ok.
To be fair that’s not the topic of this video. I agree that would be interesting to discuss and probably should be, but injury isn’t death
The interesting numbers to compare would be tourist death v citizen deaths. It's also rare for Aussies to get attacked because we leave them alone! Tourists see a spider in their bedroom & freak out & start trying to kill it & in the process piss it off & get themselves bitten. Aussies see the same spider & give it a name to make it seem friendly & leave a door open so it can go outside on it's own when it's ready (might take a week or 2, but if it does, it means you had a cockroach issue that is now resolved). Most Aussie critters can bite & cause serious harm if they want to, but all Aussies, even the animals, generally just say "she'll be right mate" & move on
Hey, sci show, thanks for making the tourists complacent again so we can get back to our annual slaughter! You’ll find the money deposited into your account.
Cheers,
Australian Fauna.
Wait did I say that out loud?
:p
No you didn't say it out loud, but now we've got a signed confession.
Just got back from Australia and still alive! My daughter has lived there for 5 yrs. and is very active in hiking and going to wilderness areas. The Sun is probably more dangerous to your health than the animals in Australia.
yep
And drowning.
@@brontewcatschools in Australia do swimming lessons for all of primary school. So it's not really a problem unless you're a tourist.
@@dingdongmcnugget So why do far more people die from drowning each year than from any of our so called dangerous animals.
@@dingdongmcnugget Just so you know - 339 people died from drowning in Australia last year (2022) and nearly 890 had non-fatal drowning incident. That is over 1000 people.
I think it is a problem.
And you forgot about the thousands of deaths per week caused by drop bears
quick take your post down the more tourists we let them eat the less likely they are to come after us
yeah I don't get why they forgot about drop bears tbh
Drop bears? What’s that? 😬
@Miles Franklin Oh my god you are so full of it!
Drop bears get to about 90kg MAXIMUM!!
They are only dangerous during the mating season (March to December).
Most injuries are caused by them being SCARED and upset from falling, less than 10% are proven man-eaters.
Most people who have died from dropbears did so from contracting dropbear fever or Siqunt disease.
Get ya facts right !!!
Miles Franklin I’ve heard that koala bears can be quite vicious!
It's fine
A fish already walked on land and threatened to destroy Australia
Yeah but then it met the crawlies that liivr here..
Theres 90% of the continent that is a dry waterless sunblasted hellhole. Oh it's trying to kill you allright - and in the Outback it def DOES kill.
**clings to the coast**
@AGASTHYA depends on where you live. some places teach 7 continents, some 6 some 5 etc.
@AGASTHYA The outer shell of the earth, the lithosphere, is broken up into tectonic plates. The seven major plates are the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, Pacific plate and South American plate
AGASTHYA || Are you joking?
@AGASTHYA Australia has always been classified as a continent...
Can't kill me if it doesn't exist
I wish you were right.
DROP BEARS ARE REAL, DAMMIT
I am an actor payed to pretend i am living in Australia, i can confirm the place doesn't exist.
The Queen: Excuse me Sir, Did you even read the contract?,
This isn't Finland.
I feel like one of the major issues not considered in this is that the only cases that were considered were deaths, what about treated cases? Since they do have more animals that CAN kill you, it is also logical that they will have more antivenom, so rather than looking at straight up deaths, it would have been more logical to look at the treated and reported cases that COULD have resulted in the deaths had it not been treated.
so true if you live out back you are likely to have your own supply of antivenom that can you can buy from a farm stock suppler because it is so common and dont forget the thousands of dogs that die from getting in between their owner and snake before we see them in time
I hear that Muscle Hank was actually raised by Australian wildlife
Muscle Hank is just a Red Kangaroo wearing Hank's skin.
Try not to imagine that in gruesome detail.
martial art training from roos, physical conditioning from wombats
Marco Pohl did you mean to say wombat combat?
Hang on. Such an incredibly high number of people in Australia are dying from _Kangaroo_ attacks... and this is related to _cars?_ 🤔🤨 Kangaroos drive _cars?_
Kangaroos are the equivalent of deers or other such animals around the world.
Roos would be the equivalent of deers. They have about the same intelligence as a rabbit, so they're not good at all at realising when something's about to hit them - people generally try to swerve out of the way to avoid them, so it's easy to see where the accidents come from
Yeah dude I had one cut me off coming onto the highway this morning, old mate didn't even shoulder check!
Stupid kangaroo cut me off on the highway and smashed my headlight. He called the insurance company and hopped away.
Had a bugger come in front of me at night but lucky i slowed down enough and he made it across...
Until he did a sudden 180 back into my car for no reason.
I've seen OS tourist set up camp on the banks of a creek literally next to a saltwater crocodile warning sign...
Fortune favours the foolish sometimes I guess.
PS Yes, we stopped to warn them that it wasn't the smartest idea, they just shrugged and continued to set up camp.
That is the best profile pic I’ve ever seen ! Fellow Brisbanite (or Fitzroy)
Here is a joke for all my people in Australia. When is a bear not a bear?
If he doesn't have the right koalifications.
When its a drop bear.
Where's Statler and Waldorf when you need them. Fozzy Bear approves this joke.
when it's a koala or a drop bear lol
Why do I need a koalification, when the koala isn't a bear at all? I ask for an ice bear.
Drop bear dropped out of high school.
I can’t believe they actually made Australia a real thing.
The magpies are deadly :(
And knows who you are
Only if you're a Carlton supporter....:)
Magpies if you live in the south.
Those yellow crested daemons if you live in the north.
I few years ago I had the pleasure of visiting Australia. Arrived in Townsville, saw gorgeous white sand beaches under perfect blue skies with tons of people on the beach, some playing volleyball others sunning or playing games, but NO ONE was in the water. I asked why and was told that it was due to box jellyfish, that “they can kill you.” Now, at the Jersey Shore we have jellyfish, and their stings can hurt, but the won’t *kill* you. The next morning I was walking from my hotel in to town, walking along a canal. Noticed a saltie (crocodile) eyeing me... I crossed to the other side of the road, ‘cause, ya know, “they can kill you.” We have both alligators and crocodiles in Florida but they generally *won’t* kill you. Next day took a tour through the rain forest and something that looked like a ladybird beetle landed on me. The tour guide noticed and quickly brushed it off me, explaining that “it probably wouldn’t kill you but would be very painful.” I guess that it “probably” wouldn’t kill me is an improvement, but still... not many insects in the US are even especially painful (mostly bees and wasps) and are only deadly when there is an allergic reaction.
I trust SciShow, and believe their statistics, but I think it remains reasonable to see Australia as a country home to a variety of potentially deadly creatures.
I believe you are confusing "danger" with "risk."
Those funnel spiders are terrifying.
Years back, there was a classic news broadcast oops about a ""Woman bitten on the funnel a finger web spider".
The white tail spider bit was wrong. I've known of 2 people (known them personally) who have been bitten by a white tail spider and one of them had such a horrible looking area of infection that the skin looked like it was sort of rotting. So much exposed oozing flesh. It was disgusting to look at. My Uncle however bathed his hand in epsom salts so he never suffered the same consequences as my other friend but it was very, very painful he said.
Yeah I was bitten as a kid an I had to have surgery on a foot ulcer caused by the bite
That wasn't from the venom but the bacteria, white tails are known to sometimes carry a necrotic bacteria that lives in the soil.
As a Queenslander living in one of the areas of Australia filled with animals and living less than 15minutes from the Irwin's Australia zoo. I can fully confirm that this is the most accurate video about Aussie animal dangers I've seen in a long while.
I've been living in Australia for two months now, and the only animal danger that I've had so far was a spider that I found in my coffee.
Wyrda Welp that confirms it. 😑
Wait for Magpie swooping season. Those birds are little assholes.
The way you flow information is good.
"but is it really more dangerous down under?"
Well... where I live, the most dangerous things (the _only_ dangerous things, really) are the Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders. In Australia: "Oh yeah... yeah, I think we have some things that venomous. Most are worse, though. Those ones don't kill you every time."
i live in Australia , and just wanted to point out i know at least 5 people who have been stung by a white tail spider and yes it DOES cause the "gangrene-like necrotic ulcers" described at 1:49, 1 guy nearly lost his whole thumb (doctors barely stopped the rot, and he still doesn't have proper use if it 5 years later)
"You know what's deadlier than nature? *The void* is deadlier than nature."
~CGP Grey
I'm still impressed that I've watched two Australian UA-camrs for the past year.How do they avoid threats and practice violin at the same time everyday?
We have a better healthcare system than the States, you get bit by a snake or a spider, or tore up by a roo, you got to hospital and bam, you get better without selling your house to pay for it. We don't have people running around with automatic weapons or hand guns, thats a nice thing. We have an inbuilt sense of comradery and mateship, so if you get hurt people instinctively stop to help. Australia is a country of people that, of most, escaped hardship and horrors to get here, it's hard to kill people like that.
Unfortunately, there's less of the mateship going around in Australia, with major demographics being excluded by some 'Australians' these days. But I whole-heartedly agree with everything else! I've managed to survive several decades without a spider bite, snake, bite, jellyfish sting, or much else. I have been chased and trampled by a horse though, lol, I'm that statistic in the video.
@@firstname405 you are right, sadly. When you meet someone with nasty ass views, tell them they are a dickhead.
And people dumped there to die by a government trying to get rid of people.
@@bigdaddyhank5134 yeah I try to correct horrible behaviour more than I used to. There's no need for that anywhere in the world
@@tristanband4003 Yep, that's how we started.
0:08 "...that's an alligator." (Still love you, SciShow
What isn't trying to kill me over there?
Just Another Guy With A Moustache you look like someone I know...
AR 15's
"Some of the sheep"
(Kudos to anyone who knows where that quote is from)
@@tylerleighthomas
That applies to everywhere.
Machine guns, also no school shooters so not the students either 😂
SciShow, what are you doing :P
This is one of our best memes!
Plus you didn't even mention drop bears!
They didn't really address the issue; is Australia TRYING to kill you, not how often it is successful. To consider the idea actually squashed I'd need to see hospitalization rates comparatively, wildlife attacks and injuries per capita and generally, not just deaths. They've lived with this wildlife since forever so of course the medical community down there has worked tirelessly to ensure people don't die from the wildlife.
Like, come on scishow, you should know better.
"Only 250 people killed by animals in Australia! Eh, also we have 10x the population they do, but whatever."
WHAT.
That completely changes everything, and they were just like "Eh whatever this doesn't matter"
@@Szanth America (328 million) has about 13 times Australia's population (25 million). However, what people neglect in these discussions is the population's geographic distribution. Very few people know that Australia is one of the most urbanised countries on the planet - 90.1% of that 25 million are urban according to Worldometers (when I was at school we were taught that 85% of our population lived in the ten major cities). 90% of 25 million is 22.5 million, which leaves maybe 2.5 million people distributed over a country the size of America's 48 contiguous states. So, the nasties are out there but hardly any people are. America, OTOH, is less urbanised and has something we don't have, huge semi-rural belts of small towns that are more likely to encounter wild animals than people in cities. Thus you get proportionately more incidents in America, not because its nasties are nastier but simply because they have access to more potential victims. Australia is trying to kill you, it just needs to be more patient about it.
I personally know of a number of people who've been bitten by white tail spiders and had extremely serious necrotic damage. One had an arm swollen twice it's size for more than 6 months, requiring ongoing treatment. He had permanent scarring and nerve damage.
We're also having issues with pets being bitten and killed by snakes in suburban areas of Adelaide, South Australia.
💯 AGREE...I've been bitten & my flesh was eaten...took ages to heal...who ever did the new study..is NUTS ‼️‼️😬😬
North America doesn’t have nearly that level of bitey things
Ever see a grizzly bear?
R.A Williams No, in fact.
woodfur00 And I’ve never seen an inland taipan. Shrug. There’s reasons why Aussies live in the 10% of the continent we do.
Faultty Touché.
Entitled parents children... a lot of those these days.
This video came out at a perfect time, with the bushfires in Victoria and all that...
Seriously though, this is a great place, even better when you get one of those rare occasions when the weather isn’t terribly broken.
Notice how he conveniently FORGOT to mention the Funnel-Box Salty?
I do a lot of work in remote areas of northern Australia and I can tell you, the only animals we should actually be scared of up there is feral cows and pigs (they will charge you and kill you), crocodiles (no swimming unless it's dipping into a very shallow clear water hole or stream), the Green tree ants (hundreds will swarm you and bite under your clothes if you touch their nests, but the bites don't hurt afterwards), blue centipedes (they are rare but aggressive and will send you to hospital in pain), and the many species of venomous snakes (you'll be fine if you're not trying to be quiet, and if you wear long pants. They're scared of big movements and will dissappear before you even know they're there).
I still don't trust Australia.
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Good we don't trust you
Don't, if your not born here you are by definition not trustworthy and we reciprocate.
2 questions I need you to answer please.
1. Why do our bodies get welts on them? When we bump or bruise we have welts?
2. What can babies see in the first year of life? New mom here and I'd like to know my baby's eye development.
Thanks for the videos.
At least animals don't shool up schools.
Shishimaru or toilets.
I also believe that education of people who live here keeps that number low too. We are taught about the dangers of these animals all through school, and we're very well aware of where not to go and what not to do. A LOT of the deaths associated with Australian wildlife are tourist related. Swimming in unmarked beaches, bothering blue ringed octopus, swerving to miss a Roo on the road (srsly, it’s safer to hit them than swerve. They tend to hang out on highway, and cars at speed will flip and roll. Hit the roo, don’t swerve.) Almost none of the animals are actively aggressive, even the crocs would rather you leave them alone, wastes too much energy to chase if they don’t plan on eating you, so don’t make it easy for them by getting close and bothering them.
RIP Steve Irwin
1:23 The inland taipan lives in remote areas. Or to put it another way, nobody has dared build a city anywhere close to where the inland taipan lives.
The animals don't kill them but nature definitely does. There only seems to be two seasons in Australia: killer drought and killer floods.
Three actually.
Drought, flood and fire.
@@Bladelols27 And currently at the same time.
About time someone made this vid
I live in Australia and do agree with this episode. I would like to say though that the most dangerous thing in Australia could be the blue ringed octopus, this is an incredibly small octopus but when disturbed or frightened has these vivid blue rings around its body, and as it lives in rock pools it would be very easy for a child or foreigner to be fascinated and pick it up and its bight is nasty.
What about the common kingslayer ?
It's smaller than the octopus AND invisible.
And it wants to kill you.
Ok, I watch Rake on Acorn tv and the last episode I've seen showed Cleaver Green(e) going in the ocean and popping up covered in things that I thought might be the blue ringed octopus/octopi. Have you ever seen the show? If so, do you know the scene I'm asking about? 😊 Thanks.
the out back it self is most likely the deadliest part of Australia. there is just nothing for days and days in any direction.
I'd say Australia is bringing evolution back to the human species. Gradeschool biology 101: don't mess with brightly coloured animals, they look that way because they can ruin anyone's day. If you didn't listen to that lesson, odds are evolution will happen if you ever travel to Australia.
Did you see the video of the tourists playing with one? I'm amazed they're still alive.
Side note as an Aussie: Speaking form personal experience, being brought up in WA, but reckon other states are definitely the same, we are brought up to understand and respect the hazards and potential harm our local animals could cause. I have a feeling this local and native understanding and respect for the environment is what keeps fatal incidents under control.
People could be stupid and hospitals could be ignorant, but that just isn't the case, too much study has gone into this place
Maybe they're just hard as nails down there...
I see what you did there, Tim. ;)
This lines up with what my Australian friend was telling me when i asked him about how he can live in such a dangerous country, were venomous spiders and snakes can be lurking everywhere, he told me that in all his life, hes never encountered such animals. and he is 30+ years old.
in australia even the strawberries are dangerous
It's not just the animals that are dangerous. A lot of plants can kill you if you touch them or eat their fruit. And if that's not enough, the weather is also pretty bad.
"Australia isn't trying to kill you!"
Sounds like the kind of thing an Australian animal would say..
Yeah I am not buying it, nice try Australia.
I've been teaching a mate from overseas to swim. Brown and Red Bellied Black snakes sunning in the car park to play with.. Blue ringed octopus to poke at the rock pools, and sharks 70m off shore to check out and pat if ya feeling brave. Sounds scary but you odds of dying are bugger all. made for some great pics though :)
Australia doesn't exist also why isn't this upside down
Let me ask a person from Canada. Oh wait that place doesn’t exist either.
@@FabledThunder We exist, but Newfoundland is definitely fictional. Who would be stupid enough to think such a ridiculous place could be real?
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@@TonboIV The road following the north coast of the St.Lawrence stops just before we could take a glimpse at Newfoundland. Coincidence?
kinda late to the party, but as an aussie, THANK YOU. i honestly get tired of everyone acting like your gambling with your life if you come here. lived here my whole life, could count the number of snakes ive seen on one hand. Granted im in a more urban area, but thats where most ppl live
what about injuries or statistics relating to visitors instead of natives? low fatalities could simply be a matter a good medical system and local awareness. How about relating injuries and deaths to people concentrations? Not a very scientifically sound video.
Yeah, Austrians may just be a lot better at the skills needed to not be killed by a hostile environment (both preventative and treatment).
Compare injury rates and severities of tourists to and from Australia if you want me to take it at all seriously, and even that's just a start.
Sure, Aussies might mistake a skunk for a stray cat or look silly as they gawk in wonder at deer, but I'd take an embarrassing/stinky blunder over what the random stuff in Australia could do to you if you're not familiar with how to survive there.
I hear what you're saying, but I'd venture to state that this makes the title alone misleading. The content of the actual video wasn't aimed to diagnose the issues of knowledge or healthcare, merely death counts, which I believe it did so in a scientific manner. It did also mention the population density, and tourists would have been included in death tolls from the environment too. Not saying you're wrong, just throwing my stance in :)
@@masonskorup4311 thing is, tourists are going to make up too small a proportion of the population to not be lost in the "noise" in the data, and if you're not controlling for a population possibly being more resistant to getting killed, then you're not really studying how dangerous the location is.
That's part of why I suggested comparing tourists visiting Australia to Australian tourists visiting other nationalities, rather than comparing tourists in Australia to the native population.
Studying attempts (to "kill you" or anything else) by only looking at success rates is _really_ bad science.
Idk the reality for sure either, but the presented conclusions don't follow from the data as there has been basically no efforts made to isolate variables.
Everything was you dead, everything! Seriously everything will attack you unless it has worked out your a source of food, in which case they steal from you instead. Basically don't touch it, don't get withing 6 feet and you will be fine. Magpies are black and white birds that attack from behind, watch out, they learn faces and once one decides your a threat they pass that on to all in the area.
@@dynamicworlds1 Very much agreed. It's hard for us to know exactly because we weren't there when the data was collected or interpreted, but these are very good points. Thank you for giving clear points backed up by logic. Honestly, this made my day better
I think more to the point, there are isolated safe zones, predominately on the east and southern coast which are pretty safe.
Leave them at your own peril.
Though even when people do leave them, they usually stay in their cars for the vast majority of the journey until they reach another safe zone, which tends to keep you safe from most critters. Just not from the roos.
No wonder why prisoners were used to be sent there ⚡⚡
Actually convicts were sent here because of the Americans. Britain previously sent convicts to their American colonies, but after they lost the War of Independence to the Americans they needed to establish a new penal colony.
@@woodypigeon You want Starcraft? cuz that's how you get Starcraft
Video finishes, breathes a sigh of relief. "Ahh, I love my coun- AaaaRGgGHhH!!!!............."
Challenge- walk outside in Australia for 2 minutes without getting bitten by a venomous animal
I do it every day here in Sydney, for hours ... :0)
Also hours in Perth every day :0)
Same here in Brisbane
done it everyday for hours straight for roughly 20 years now. what do I win?
thanks for taking my fears away man
Hmm, let’s think and watch the rest of your videos, oh yeah YES
i can personally vouch for the white tail spiders. got bitten on my groin back in school and still have the large scar to show for it.
As an Aussie, I don't know how I feel about this video 😂
@Ungregistered User nah f that, they're crazy dangerous
Thank you! I will stay out of remote areas! 😏 I've been wandering the hills for years as a photographer and the worst thing I've ever come across was a tick. And one bee. Great report!
Thank you. I get a little tired of the ”Australia is dangerous” cry. It's patently not true.
Yeah if you swim in the wrong place and ignore the numerous warning signs about crocodiles and jellyfish you may well have a problem. But the same goes for moose or grizzlies. One thing, there are no large predators on land in Australia. Unless you count politicians.
It's true to an extent. Pissing off the wildlife is probably more likely to get you killed here than a lot of other places. But if you don't antagonize it, it probably won't try and off you, either.
Ooooooh sick burn
You were saying everything is expensive because products have to be brought in! My niece lived in Australia for 22 year and has two children. she likes to take care of her skin. Now skin care products are very very expensive. So between her mother and I we send all her skin care to Australia. Lots of products everything she would possible need !! Well before we sent her products 8 years ago her skin was dry beginning to wrinkle and she was only in her early 30's, She uses her products deligently and her skin is gorgeous. She looks amazing!! no sun for her! Her friends aren't so lucky with relatives in Canada! , The products we send her arent available in Australia!! most are 4-5 times the price here.
What tis this Australia you speak of?
It is a land down under
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Where beer does flow and men chunder.
I feel this misrepresents the dangers the trees pose in Australia, from dropping branches to encouraging bushfires...not to mention the heat, lack of water, thunderstorm asthma, sheer distance, etcetc. With that said: no rabies.
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How just How did you do that?
Nevyn of OZ 1973
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Australia is basically just setting life to "Hard Mode"
You also got your ozone hole that increases the chance of skin cancer
“There’s a hole in your ozone layer”
@@randomuser5443 Our ozone layer. Its apparently not as big now as it used to be.
@@julesmasseffectmusic it's improving tho, in the next 40-50 years it might entirely regenerate
You forgot the drop-bears, the kanga-wally-fox and the combat- wombat!! 👍
Nice try but Australia doesn't exist
Australian here: Yes, it's true that much of our nasties are shy, or live in remote areas. However, you missed a fairly major point: If you don't know exactly what something is, leave it the hell alone! There are plenty of fairly small things that will mess you right up if you give them cause - so don't.
Should be pointed out that at school in Australia you learn how to splint snake bites, you learn to check your shoes for spiders, you have your house sprayed to stop insects from coming in and Australia has free health care so if you do get injured, there's no hesitation from going to hospital.
“There are dangerous animals in Australia, like Funnel-Web spiders - ”
*Tosses tablet out the window*
Yeah there are dangerous things in Australia. But we’re also pretty good at mitigating the risks, warning people about blue bottle sightings or when crocs are in the region. And if you’re sticking to the cities or being sensible on the beach or in rural and regional areas your risk is pretty minimal.
Yep, can confirm. live stock is the most cause of injury followed by roos jumping out in front of cars.
I think more tourists get in trouble getting caught in rips at the beach or getting severely sunburnt than encountering a deadly animal. They do warrant caution in the right situations though
Ok, I like the thesis, but I'm still unconvinced. We got total numbers but what about per-capita? If the peaceful venomous dangernoodles are less common, what about, out of the number of encounters with them, how many ended up with a bite/death?
It's kind of like saying that a three foot area which definitely has landmines has only killed 2 people, but so many more people die in open fields which might possibly have mines. There are simply more open fields.
Although Aus isn't as dangerous as we like to make out, it isn't uncommon to see dangerous wildlife. There are still quite a number of brown snakes, funnel webs and redbacks around suburban Sydney but people are generally well educated on the risks.
Often it isn't the flashy, rare wildlife that's the most dangerous. For example, the blue ring octopus is deadly but pretty infamous and easy to spot. The bigger threat would be the smaller jellyfish, or more rarely, cone shells.
Me: Dies
Australia: Laughs in Didgeridoo
I mean we don't have bears or big cats here. We don't have rattle snakes and most of the time the deadly snakes are in unpopulated areas or they are fleeing snakes.
The white tail has bacteria (sometimes) that can get in when they bite which causes the infection
As an Australian, dropbears are unfairly maligned. They usually won’t kill you, they normally just maim you and run up a huge credit card debt in your name.
Thanks for not putting a close up of a large and spooky spider on my screen !
Just a note, at least one image, the white-tailed spider, was completely covered by text so we couldn’t see this interesting creature you were talking about.
It probably helps that we are brought up knowing what to touch and what not to touch / go near. A tourist is more likely to die from an animal here then a local.
A White tip spiders bit my son when he was young and it took many months for the wound to heal. It has been said that each spider varies in the potential severity of its bite becuse it stores up the venom of other smaller spiders that it eats. This is only rumour. Its favourite food is Daddy Long leg spiders
You’ve especially gotta watch out for those bloody drop bears mate!
Me: oh ok Australia don't sound so bad after all.
>First day in Australia
>Puts on shoes
>Gets bit by a brown recluse spider chilling in the shoe
I would guess part of the reason there are so few deaths from creatures here in Aus is that we're raised on how to avoid or deal with them. We're all taught that if you go into the bush you should try and make some noise to let stuff like Snakes know you're coming, or that you shouldn't stick your hand anywhere you can't see, that you just plain shouldn't go swimming in certain places or how to deal with a snake bite etc.
When I was in school we had some exchange students from Europe and one of the first things they did was rush off into the bush and start touching ad turning over things, we were horrified lol. But they just weren't used to being cautious about those types of things. If I went to America I'd have no idea how to deal with Wolves, Coyotes or Bears etc.
In Australia You can’t go swimming in any waterhole because there’s always something that might kill you in them… the reason people don’t die as often in Australia is because people know to just stay away from the bushes so they don’t really enjoy their parks or nice hikes.
@Uncle Joe you just prove my point.
The safest part of Australia is that the sharks and crocs are NOT VENOMOUS.
I read in Bill Bryson's book that if you made a list of the top 20 most venomous [fill-in-the-blanks], the top 18 would come from Australia.
I don't know what research went into this episode but my mother lost a third of her finger due to a white tail, they believe it spat its poison as my mother swiped the spider of a blue tarpaulin where my mother may have had a small cut on her finger and a friend of my family got bitten on his thigh and it went horribly gangrenous, there is a hole in his thigh that you can fit a fist or base ball in to, both these times white tails had been identified and the doctors knew from dead tissue it was a white tail.
Also the brown snake is something like the second most venomous snake and doesn't kill often because every hospital in actually stocks antivenom