:australia: Australia's Fauna and Flora :australia:
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We all know that it's dangerous, and will try to kill you, of course. But we do not have a
threatthread for that, have we? So let me start this one.What do you think of centipede some 25 cm (10 inches) long, eating chicks? Here it is:
The giant centipede that devours fluffy baby seabirds
Nature - The voracious Phillip Island centipede eats enough chicks and other large prey to play an important part in its home ecosystem.
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Phillip Island also has the seagull snapping Vroomvroom.
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@BernieTheBernie said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :What do you think of centipede some 25 cm (10 inches) long, eating chicks?
At least it stops those chicks from growing up into adult birds that want to kill you.
Also, I'm very happy to be on the opposite side of the world.
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Come get your spicessss
Watch: 10-foot python surprises shoppers on supermarket shelf - UPI.com
Shoppers at a grocery store in Australia were shocked to discover a 10-foot python slithering across a shelf in the spice section.
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@JBert Would you rather expect it in the programming books section?
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@JBert photo by Max Fuckit.
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Also imports from other parts of the world quickly evolve into real Australians:
Australia’s cane toads evolved as cannibals with frightening speed
Nature - Study finds that the noxious pests have become so numerous, they’ve developed a taste for each other — as well as defences to ward off such attacks.
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@BernieTheBernie The embed doesn't capture this noteworthy sentence:
The list of ‘deadly animals in Australia’ just got a little weirder.
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@HardwareGeek said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@BernieTheBernie The embed doesn't capture this noteworthy sentence:
The list of ‘deadly animals in Australia’ just got a little weirder.
It's not true. The list is exactly as weird as it was before.
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Rating: Mostly Harmless
Australian farmer honors late aunt by arranging sheep into a heart - UPI.com
An Australian farmer arranged his sheep in the shape of a heart to pay tribute to his aunt when COVID-19 restrictions prevented him from attending her funeral.
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It's not just the fauna and flora...
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@boomzilla said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :It's not just the fauna and flora...
Australia, the nation of
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@boomzilla Now we know how Covid spreads in Australia: it managed to infect hailstones, too, as can be seen by virtue of their Corona spikes.
Hope that dangerous Australian variant stays in Australia only and won't start spreading all over the rest of the world.
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I am confused as to how the food chain works in Australia.
Really? It’s the simplest one there is—
everything is out to get you.
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Australia's food chain, illustrated:
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@boomzilla said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :California Warning:
Eating snakes may cause cancer in cows.
Drinking milk from cows which ate snakes may cancer in personx.
Eating steaks from cows which ate snakes may cancer in men.
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During the era of dinosaurs, Chile had close ties with Australia:
Bizarre tail weaponry in a transitional ankylosaur from subantarctic Chile
Nature - Stegouros elengassen, an ankylosaur from the late Cretaceous of Chile, has a large tail weapon, named a macuahuitl after the Aztec club, with a frond-like structure formed by seven pairs...
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Watch: Large spider interrupts Australian official's news conference - UPI.com
A health official in Queensland, Australia, had her COVID-19 news conference interrupted by a large huntsman spider.
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The first true millipede: new species with more than 1,000 legs discovered in Western Australia
Researchers named the subterranean animal Eumillipes persephone after the Greek goddess of the underworld
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@JBert said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :
Watch: Large spider interrupts Australian official's news conference - UPI.com
A health official in Queensland, Australia, had her COVID-19 news conference interrupted by a large huntsman spider.
Looks like a young'un — not yet the size of your hand.
I don't live in Australia, but huntsman spiders have managed to get into other places. I was staying with relatives in one of these places. It was the middle of winter and I woke up one especially cold night to find one had settled itself on my face.
A surprising amount of stuff can go through your mind when you find yourself in that situation.
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@BernieTheBernie said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :We all know that it's dangerous, and will try to kill you, of course. But we do not have a
threatthread for that, have we? So let me start this one.What do you think of centipede some 25 cm (10 inches) long, eating chicks? Here it is:
The giant centipede that devours fluffy baby seabirds
Nature - The voracious Phillip Island centipede eats enough chicks and other large prey to play an important part in its home ecosystem.
Nasty fuckers. This guy isn't quite as long (that's a 1' tile) but it decided to come into my living room when my son was about a year old. They sting like a strongish scorpion.
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@Watson You no doubt familiarized yourself with the instructions for the correct removal of said spider shortly after the event.
Mind filling the rest of us in on that too? Y'know, just in case.
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@acrow said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Watson You no doubt familiarized yourself with the instructions for the correct removal of said spider shortly after the event.
Mind filling the rest of us in on that too? Y'know, just in case.
Huntsmen are not dangerous, apart from their habit of leaping at people while driving cars, the people, not the huntsman. So I'd guess just any way will do. If it's a funnel web spider, fuck knows. With a flamethrower?
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@Carnage said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@acrow said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Watson You no doubt familiarized yourself with the instructions for the correct removal of said spider shortly after the event.
Mind filling the rest of us in on that too? Y'know, just in case.
Huntsmen are not dangerous, apart from their habit of leaping at people while driving cars, the people, not the huntsman. So I'd guess just any way will do. If it's a funnel web spider, fuck knows. With a flamethrower?
Hm, "systemic neurological toxin effects" and "bites usually do not require hospital treatment" doesn't sound super confidence inspiring.
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@LaoC said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Carnage said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@acrow said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Watson You no doubt familiarized yourself with the instructions for the correct removal of said spider shortly after the event.
Mind filling the rest of us in on that too? Y'know, just in case.
Huntsmen are not dangerous, apart from their habit of leaping at people while driving cars, the people, not the huntsman. So I'd guess just any way will do. If it's a funnel web spider, fuck knows. With a flamethrower?
Hm, "systemic neurological toxin effects" and "bites usually do not require hospital treatment" doesn't sound super confidence inspiring.
Huntsman Spiders
Australian Huntsman spiders belong to the Family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae) and are famed as being the hairy so-called 'tarantulas' on house walls that terrify people by scuttling out from behind curtains.
Danger to humans
A cold pack may relieve local pain. Seek medical attention if symptoms persist.
They are also reluctant to bite, so even though they eat snakes and rats, they are not dangerous to humans unless you have an allergic reaction to their bites. And they usually won't bite.
The funnel web spider, on the other hand, is both stupidly aggressive and it's poison can kill humans.
Funnel-web Spiders
Funnel-web spiders, the most notorious members of our spider fauna, are found in eastern Australia.
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@Carnage said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :the most notorious members of our spider fauna
And for Australia, that's saying something.
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@Carnage quoted in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :A cold pack may relieve local pain.
Beer makes everything better.
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@Zecc said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Carnage quoted in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :A cold pack may relieve local pain.
Beer makes everything better.
This being Australia, it's required.
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@Carnage said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :The funnel web spider, on the other hand, is both stupidly aggressive and it's poison can kill humans.
Funnel-web Spiders
Funnel-web spiders, the most notorious members of our spider fauna, are found in eastern Australia.
Speaking about funnel web spiders, apparently some anonymous (and crazy) "benefactor" caught a really big one which experts hadn't seen before:
Deadly and massive 'Megaspider' found in Australia has fangs that can puncture a fingernail
Funnel-web spiders are typically half the Megaspider's size.
This one measured 8 cm foot-to-foot, whereas they're normally 1-5 cm.
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@JBert said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :This one measured 8 cm foot-to-foot, whereas they're normally 1-5 cm.
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Australian woman finds scorpion in package of broccoli - UPI.com
An Australian woman said she was shocked to open a package of broccoli from a local supermarket to discover a live scorpion lurking inside.
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@JBert that is surprising, broccoli has enough moisture to support far larger and less aridity-adapted arthropod horrors.
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One more reason to avoid broccoli.
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@boomzilla you missed Bleeding Christ and Too Many Feet By Far. But well done on at least trying to warn us about Dave.
ed. what about the sorry duckdog?
I don't know what you're talking about, Ed. Just mammals and marsupials and birds and reptiles and such in this world. You can't combine fur and a cloaca in the same organism as you seem to be perversely suggesting.
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@boomzilla and that's no floof, that's a dropbear
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Did you expect a salt-water living crocodile to eat wild boars? With the wounderworld of Australia, it has become reality.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0676
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@dcon said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@JBert said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :This one measured 8 cm foot-to-foot, whereas they're normally 1-5 cm.
is he doing? That's dangerous!Repeat after me:
#6 shot or smaller indoors goddamnit!
Avoid needless property damage.
Not to mention he might miss the spider with that single bullet. #12 shot makes a nice, dense shot pattern up to 6 feet away. No more spider.
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@dcon said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@JBert said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :This one measured 8 cm foot-to-foot, whereas they're normally 1-5 cm.
Use a shotgun, ffs.
A rock salt round should be sufficient and does less damage to the wall.
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You have to remember that for the average person handguns are weak little things and shotguns blow people across the room, out the window and down the street.
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leave the spider the fuck alone.
Wait, this is Australia? Never mind, killitkillitkillit.
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@BernieTheBernie ah, the crocs are finally fighting back, I see.
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@Zecc said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :OR
leave the spider the fuck alone.
Wait, this is Australia? Never mind, killitkillitkillit.
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@Lathun said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :@Zecc said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :OR
leave the spider the fuck alone.
Wait, this is Australia? Never mind, killitkillitkillit.
They started it. By existing. Which they did first.
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@HardwareGeek said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :Yes, these would have done for the spider, too.
Filed under: intentional misunderstandings
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@Zecc said in
Australia's Fauna and Flora :Load up on guns
Briiing your friiiendsNot much fun to lose against that one, though.
Huntsman spider - Wikipedia
Load up on guns