For the record

[den]

That danger map could be made for any country. Everywhere has dangerous animals.

Except New Zealand. The most dangerous thing there are eldery bowls ladies in Toyota Crowns.

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Saskatchewan vs Australia

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Saskatchewan is flat and thousands of miles from oceans, (almost) no earthquakes and middle of a plate so no volcanos BUT we have lots of poisonous snakes and spiders - one species each but there are lots of them. Twice I had a confirmed black widow (closely related to those red backed spiders) crawling on me and several other times I was quite sure it was one (the red hour-glass spot on black widows is on the belly so you have to flip the little guys over to see for sure). I have unintentionally touched rattle-snakes more then once (OK twice). This week we had two bear maulings in the prairies. Saskatchewan has been known to have bear attacks from 4 different species of bear (black, brown, grizzly, and polar - polar are quite rare but they go after boaters in the remote northern lakes). Cougars, scorpions, mad moose, more tornadoes than anywhere else, blizzards, some of the coldest recorded temperatures AND the highest, biggest hail stones (basket ball sized), Lots of lightning strikes on humans (likely a record of some sort)

So, why are Saskatchewan people one of the longest lived populations on the planet?