Oh come ON! This is getting silly.

[den]

Now goannas produce venom.

And bearded dragons are venomous too. Not only that, the venom contains crotamine which is found in rattlesnakes.

The good news is the lizards don't have the venom delivery system found in snakes and gila monsters. They'll give you a nasty nip but that's about it. With goannas I'm more worried about the claws on their feet, as anyone should be after visiting a mate in hospital with 100 stitches in their back and head after having a frightened goanna run up them.

Will everyone please stop finding dangerous Australian animals? Pretty soon the only safe animals will be some of the sheep.

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There is that. All things considered, the weather here is pretty safe. Cyclones usually hit lightly populated areas, tornadoes are rare and we don't have state-stopping blizzards. There are the occasional floods but they're mostly slow moving and only destructive in a wet, muddy way; they don't wash houses and towns away.

We do have drough but that's a threat to animals, plants and bank accounts, not to human life.