Dangeraus, updated

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Larger, more accurate map of Australia

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[trpeal.livejournal.com]

"Feirce Snake"? Is that a name, or merely a description?

Also, what's an irukanji?

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

tis a name, and a description

and Irukanji is a type of jellyfish, IIRC... Slightly more dangerous then the box jellyfish.

[trpeal.livejournal.com]

Ah. Bad news all around, then. A critter best avoided, it seems.

[pipibluestockin]

Avoiding them is the hard part - they are no bigger than a finger tip.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Feirce Snake aka small-scaled taipan aka western taipan. No 1 most venomous snake.

Irukanji (http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/irukandji.htm)

No 1 most venomous snake.

[gatorofages.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes the africa folk argue with thier mambas on that one :-)

Re: No 1 most venomous snake.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The mamba is by far the most deadly killer. The fierce snake has more toxic venom but very few people have been killed by them.

Ah, and yeah, in that respect, they are more toxic

[gatorofages.livejournal.com]

I know alot depends on the venoms ld50 values....

I know the fierce (now properly called the inland taipan) is considered by most to be the most "toxic" snake in the world, but this is generally based on the murine affect tests. The amount of venom also has alot to do with it "deadlyness"-

(I am a snake nut, and Im jealous of OZ and glad at the same time I live in an easy country as far as hot snakes....here I don't really have to look twice, one glance tells me its either a viper, coral snake, or its generally harmless...)

http://www.venomdoc.com/LD50/LD50men.html

Re: Ah, and yeah, in that respect, they are more toxic

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I regular;y see eastern brown snakes and red-bellied black snakes around here. Both are on those lists. 8)

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Posters! Posters! We want Posters!!

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes we do.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Cassowaries are just big birds aren't they? Do they peck you to death, or is the green area the only safe place to hide? :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Cassowaries are highly territorial birds almost as large as emus, who will attack without warning and kick the crap out of you.

[jamesb]

... and they have a weapon that grows out of the top of their head ... and they're not afraid to use it.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

(got here from a friend's lj)

Cassowaries are velocorapters with feathers. They kill by kicking.

visiting...

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

And I want to visit you down there why? And where is Brisbane on that map - what do I have to watch out for?

Re: visiting...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Brisbane is a little below the Steve Irwin spot, halfway down the east coast.

Re: visiting...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

...and it's a nice place, really.

Re: visiting...

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Steve Irwin's ?? naww - it's just Disneyland with real instead of animatronic animals.

Now Brisbane on the other hand is wonderful, but then I'm biased..

http://oceans.anobviousdistraction.com/Australia/

Re: visiting...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I think he meant Irwin himself was the danger.

Re: visiting...

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Yep. And I've been to Brisbane and second the opinion of its wonderfulness.

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

So now you show me a bigger map? Are you really trying to scare me out of ever coming to Australia? And Alaska too? (since those animals will eat me, as you say). Gee, now I really am stumped. Must do some research. Maybe I should just go anyway and come prepared for the challenge. I mean REALLY prepared. Know what I mean?

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Start with Bill Bryson's advice from "In A Sunburned Country" - walk loud and carry a very big (long) stick... for poking in holes in the ground.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

All you need to remember is that the most embarrassing way to die is to get caught in a wombat hole when the wombat presses your head against the roof of the tunnel.

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

or being gummed to death by a wobegone 8-)

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about something with gunpowder. Maybe that's a little excessive. *Grins*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Near where I lived, one of the shopkeepers in a nearby small town (because there weren't nearby big towns) once lifted a case of cold drink off the dirt floor of his storage shed, turned to leave the shed, and glanced back to see a death adder resting just outside the imprint the case had made in the dirt.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

OMG STEVE IRWIN!

I was also going to ask about cassowaries, but I see you've answered that downthread. Interesting.

Makes America look positively safe, it does.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I dunno -- I liked the Sans Serif font better.

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

ahahahahaha!!! haaaaaaahahahahaha!!!! this is hilarious!! :-)

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Where are the emus? I got bit by an emu. Emu bites can be awfully nasty...

[humbleminion.livejournal.com]

Nice. I probably would have tried to make room for cone shells, stonefish, lionfish, and Portuguese men'o'war, though. And if you're including blizzards, bushfires would have to get a mention too..

[redbird]

"Poisonous Snakes found within black outlines" sums it up nicely.

[drcuriosity]

It's things like this that make me glad I live on the snakeless side of the Tasman.

Then again, my country is a mountainous crease along a fault line with a giant volcanic hole in the middle of the northern island, and some people are making bets as to when the Big One is going to hit and our capital city is going to slide into the sea...

...and that's not even getting into the risk potential of rugby fans.