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dasher65

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Yes Seamaiden the gum tree is a eucalypt. They're notorious for dropping huge limbs without warning. Just last year a female golfer died locally after a bough fell on her at a golf course.

Our wildlife depend on the fallen branches leaving hollows in the trunk for nesting so it's all part of the natural way. Unfortunately we humans have a knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time!
 
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noyd666

seamaiden hi, box jellyfish no fun, stung allup my arms untying moring ropes,stuck allover ropes ,everything,small bay full of them for days,arms stinging, my mates wife and kids were in water splashing around havin fun, until told to get out, luck they got a few stings that was all, tough in oz lol. and bloody pine trees pine cones. hate the bastards, no animals live in them that ive' seen.
 
dasher65

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I suppose we're raised to expect and respect the creatures around us. You're taught from very young to watch out for snakes, don't lift up bricks & stuff outside before checking for red backs, be careful of discarded tins & bottles in the sea in case of blue rings and especially keep an eye out for drop bears!!!

Then there's the bunyips...

Each Aussie kid and adult has a healthy respect for what can hurt you.
 
Kangativa

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I love snakes....as a 10yr old kid I used to go out and catch Tiger snakes, Dugites and Copper Heads and take them to the Royal Perth hospital for milking.....10 bucks a snake was good money in the 60's.

The myth buster......http://youtu.be/HJGNEu53Cyc
 
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noyd666

dasher65 said:
I suppose we're raised to expect and respect the creatures around us. You're taught from very young to watch out for snakes, don't lift up bricks & stuff outside before checking for red backs, be careful of discarded tins & bottles in the sea in case of blue rings and especially keep an eye out for drop bears!!!

Then there's the bunyips...

Each Aussie kid and adult has a healthy respect for what can hurt you.
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lol those drop bears could have blue rings.:moon:
 
Donald Mallard

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Kangativa said:
I love snakes....as a 10yr old kid I used to go out and catch Tiger snakes, Dugites and Copper Heads and take them to the Royal Perth hospital for milking.....10 bucks a snake was good money in the 60's.

The myth buster......http://youtu.be/HJGNEu53Cyc
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ive got love for them also kanga,
healthy respect , i know what they can do,
but im intrigued by them,
particularly the pythons,
they give off really nice calm vibes ...
 
mack 10

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Drop bear? wtf is one of them?
This is the only good thing about living in the Uk,
No killer snakes or spiders.
mack.
 
dasher65

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Ahh...drop bears!!!

They're a voracious carnivorous species of koala that hide in trees and drop onto their victim with razor sharp claws and teeth like a tiger. We tried to hunt them to extinction but isolated pockets survived. With humans encroaching into their territories there are more attacks occurring. Neighbor lost her Afghan Hound last week
 
Kangativa

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Donald Mallard said:
ive got love for them also kanga,
healthy respect , i know what they can do,
but im intrigued by them,
particularly the pythons,
they give off really nice calm vibes ...
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Yeah Wal you and me are built from the same genetics:huggg:

One day about 5 of us were watching 2 big Red belly Black males having a good old get together over a female and I was taking a video of it when I realized they were right next to me while I was squatting down so i just had to stay still so I didnt stop them.
Well they came right up between my legs all twirled together, then suddenly stopped looked up at me and hissed and went right back to doing what they were doing, I looked at the guys and they were just standing there with their mouths open not taking pics or anything.....had to slap them out for that....lol

One of the best things that has happened in my life around snakes.


Hey Mack they are parachuting Koala Bears.
 
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noyd666

now ,just reading about 16 year old girl in us stood on nest of rattlers, bit by mum, then 5 young rattlers, still in hosy ,scary stuff.
 
SneakySneaky

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SeaMaiden said:
Good Lord, great place to die is it. I wonder if taipan bites are as painless as rattlesnake bites.
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Being a herpetologist lemme clear this up. Rattle snake bites are EXTREMELY painful. My friend who trained me can vouch for this, as he got over 30 vials of antivenin and a fasciectomy from a bite from a Pygmy rattler in Oregon. I'll allow the late Bill Haast to describe what a bite from a similar species is like.

"***** 36,000 extractions annually. He was confident that cobra venom held the secret to curing or maybe even preventing

***** disease.

*********** His built-up immunity to snake venom certainly saved his own life.

*********** In 1954 he was bitten by a blue krait, a snake that comes from Asia. Drop for drop, the krait's venom is

***** many times more poisonous than a cobra's.

*********** ``I had never heard of a krait bite victim ever surviving,'' Haast says.

*********** ``I felt like the skin had been stripped from my body, like every nerve in my teeth was exposed, like my hair

***** was being ripped out of my head.''

*********** Haast survived, barely. The snake died 10 days later.

*********** The remarkable thing about Haast's encounter with the krait was that, despite his agony, he insisted on

***** making notes.

*********** He scribbled that he had a sore throat, sore jaw muscles, blurred vision, chest and stomach spasms. When,

***** three hours after the bite, he could no longer write, he dictated, noting his belief that the venom could not affect

***** every nerve in his body and not have some use in medicine.

*********** Indeed, his own blood has such a use.

*********** In 1969, he answered an emergency summons from Bob Elgin, director of the Des Moines Zoo in Iowa,

***** who had been bitten by a snake. Blood transfusions from Haast saved him. Haast keeps a letter from Elgin: ``Each* morning when the sun comes up, I think of you.''

********
Here's a link, http://www.cobras.org/article.htm
 
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dasher65

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Those snakes are simply stunning.

My mate keeps Colletts(?) and they're a pretty snake but yours are beautiful.

Shame Mrs. D won't have a reptile in the house
 
dasher65

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noyd666 said:
now ,just reading about 16 year old girl in us stood on nest of rattlers, bit by mum, then 5 young rattlers, still in hosy ,scary stuff.
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6 snakes bite the kid & she lives!!!

One bite from a taipan & the bloke's dead virtually before he hits the ground.

Goes to show taipans don't fuck around!!!

Seriously she's one lucky girl
 
baittis

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From Wikipedia:

Drop bear
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the fictional animal. For other uses, see Dropbear (disambiguation).

A drop bear (or dropbear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial.[1] Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas (although the koala is not a bear) that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or snipe hunt.

It is often suggested that doing ridiculous things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures.[3]

Highlighted a few points.
 
b00m

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I have the utmost respect for snakes, Living in the Cape York opened my eyes up to some of the biggest snakes I have ever seen, that includes pythons and venomous snakes.
 
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