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Post by merkavah12 on May 8, 2009 21:49:25 GMT
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Post by noons on May 8, 2009 22:58:56 GMT
I didn't even need to click on the link to know what that was about.
Snakes, lizards, fine. But I honestly can't even look at anything bigger than my thumbnail with more than four legs.
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Post by unkleE on May 9, 2009 0:12:37 GMT
I'm an Australian poster - but not (unfortunately) an Australian poster boy! : )
I've never heard of nor seen spiders of that size, though we get similar looking ones, but about half the size, in our home on occasion. They seem quite lethargic, never aggressive or dangerous, and always run when we try to get rid of them. The really deadly spiders (funnel webs) are smaller but meaner looking, but they rarely kill anyone. I would think the average Aussie is more in danger of death by boredom or obesity than from the combined effect of sharks, spiders, snakes and alligators - but the truth would ruin the Crocodile Dundee myth of the tough hard-bitten (pun sort of intended) bronzed Aussie, and we wouldn't want to get in the way of a good story!
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Post by wraggy on May 9, 2009 1:37:35 GMT
There are huge bird eating spiders in the Aussie outback as well as the triantulars. But the ones that you have to watch are (as unklee said) the Funnel Web Spider and the smaller Red Back or Jockey Spider. They can kill you with one kiss.
But if you come to Australia I would be more worried about the Blue Ringed Platypus and the Great White Wombat. They are extremely agressive. Need I mention the Dropbears?
I would not worry too much about the huge sharks that we have over here as they don't venture more than about 30 miles inland anyway.
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Post by unkleE on May 9, 2009 3:28:23 GMT
Drop bears? What about hoop snakes? (Grasp their tail in their mouth, harden up their muscles so the form a hoop, and can roll faster than anyone can run. Only escape? Up a tree - hoops can't roll up trees!)
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Post by bernard on May 10, 2009 10:24:08 GMT
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Post by merkavah12 on May 10, 2009 17:57:11 GMT
Bernard,
EEEEEEK!
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