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.

Comments

New study shows: Aussie sheep's wool fibers are really venom delivery systems

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Hee. At least, this time, it's not JUST Aussie lizards, it's the whole genus of monitors.

Have the best

-=TK

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

"Pretty soon the only safe animals will be some of the sheep"

Only *some* of the sheep? Eeep! :-)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Two words:

Killer Sheep (http://www.shawnbehrens.de/kilsheep/photo.htm)

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Except the really cute sheep.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

My poor Batty, you're starting to sound paranoid. Well, at least your home territory doesn't regularly try to freeze you to death. :)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Pretty soon the only safe animals will be some of the sheep.

I thought that already was the case?

*grin, duck, run*

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

"He's that most dangerous of creatures- a clever sheep!" :D

They seemed to be focused on the land species. Let's not remind them about the ocean!

[claire.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be bloody surprised if we spontaneously developed venomous sheep. Of course, then we could export them to NZ. *ponders*

Yeesh!

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

You blokes sure know how to make a tourist or potential immigrant feel welcome, don't ya?

Come to Australia, where everything can kill ya!