Is it true that in Australia that there is a lot of venomous bugs and snakes and other animALS?
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That's why they call it the Lucky Country!\nWe have the most venomous jellyfish: Box jellyfish and Irukandji; Most venomous spiders: Sydney Funnelweb and Mous Spider\nMost venomous fish: Stonefish\nMost venomous tick: Paralysis tick Oxodes holocyclus\nMost venomous Octopus: Blue- ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena spp)\nMost venomous snakes: Fierce snake, Taipan, Death Adders, Brown snakes, Tiger snakes, Australian Copperheads\nMost venomous ants (Genus Myrmecia)\nMost venomous mammal (Male platypus)\nMost venomous tree (Giant Stinging Tree)\nAnd the only leader who invaded Iraq and maintained his popularity (although not with me).
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Prawns are eaten a lot in Australia because most people in Australia have access to fresh seafood, at a fairly affordable price. I don't really think that the women have a special dress, because Australia is such a multicultural country.
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Not all involve only animals.  There are important family and tribe values taught in some stories.  \nThe most famous involve a spider whom often gets into mischief because he does not think of others.  \nSome storied are explanations for the unknown (like many myths). (why the mosquitoes fly into ears, and why the sun and moon rise and set..)\nIf you want to pass you should go to the library.
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Good question, I would think so. Their venom is very poisonous. Here are a few websites on cobras and their venom, because I don't know much about them:\n\nhttp://cobra.ucsd.edu/Research/Cobra%20Venom.htm\nMostly about the chemical make-up of cobra venom, but not the best one. It's pretty short.\n\nhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/kingcobra/index-n.html\nThis one is really reliable, it is an actual National Geographic website! Click on the "Enter if you dare" thing and a pop-up will come up with an interactive cobra explaining the different features. It says the venom kills by stunning the nervous system and stopping your breathing! Also, some king cobras can stand up to look you in the eye.\n\nhttp://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/animalprojects/cobra.htm\nHere's just a short little site with information on cobras, king cobras namely.
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Venom is actively injected, while poison must be eaten or absorbed. So snakes and spiders have venom, because they typically use fangs to inject it into their victims. Some frogs, however, have poison, because one must touch their skin to absorb it.
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My assumption is that you're in Australia, because you mentioned being in the Far North.  There are 76 species of bats in Australia, including both Mircrochiroptera and Megachiroptera, so there is really no way to determine what bat species you are seeing without getting a closer look.  In general, bats do not bite or attack people unless they are sick (rabies or some other disease) or in defence if you bother them.  Small bats are usually insect-eaters, but they might also eat fruit, nectar, or maybe even blood.  Regardless of what they eat, it is very unlikely for a bat to attack someone who is not bothering them.  Even bats that drink blood usually choose farm animals (often cattle) to drink from, which they do while the animal is asleep.  The bats you see could be flying over the water for a couple of reasons - they are either eating insects that are also flying over the water, or they may be swooping down to the water and drinking.  Here are a couple of websites with some good general info about Australia's bats: http://rainforest-australia.com/bats.htm and http://www.sydneybats.org.au/cms/download.php?c8d7e0907cf9345121606ec3388f0619\n\nIf you want to find out more info about specific bats, you could probably buy a good field guide to mammals (or bats, specifically) online or at a good bookstore.  Hope this helps!
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Snakes often, but not always, have immunity to venom from the same species-they seem to develop this very early from interactions with sibling snakes, though that isnt completely clear.  It would depend on the kind of snake.
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Australia has a program to eliminate foxes (that are not native and were brought from England) to stop predation (foxes eating numbats) in WA (Western Australia).  There is also a program to start a new colony of numbats in southern Australia with some being bred in zoos as a reserve breeding program.
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why would anybody want to go to australia? spiders, snakes, absolutely no gun rights, and (no matter how much you hate it) you are still part of england. oh, at least we can claim we are independent from another country.
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Your question certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase "Down-Under" !! \n\nI don't know the legal answer - sorry about that. \nThinking it through, though ... I would say it depends on the land usage situation. \n\n(I'm puzzled by the previous post which imagines that Aussies have a hereditary monarchy, with unusual privileges and exemptions.) \n\nIt might be fine, actually, way out in a remote rural area. \nCommon sense tells you that a corpse would break down in useful ways, long before it contaminated the water supply or spread infection. \n\nOK, so far. But people don't die of nothing, and often of an infectious disease, and bodies were historically always taboo,  because the first stage of decomposition is to harmful bacteria, right? I suppose it depends what you intend to die of <g>. \n\nBut if you have a backyard, that means that you are part of a community, which has people living at close quarters to each other, and using their yards for common piping for water, electricity, gas, wiring. And some guys have to maintain that.\n\nMy friends live in a small town and they returned from a visit abroad to find sewage all over their garden - someone's sewage tank blew up and the effects spread through the system, terminating in their garden, throwing off the manhole cover with gross results. I would be worried about the feedback to the living. \n\nHaving said that, if you mean a backyard as in on the lands of a farm in the outback, well, who is going to know, why not? Have them dig you a grave as deep as you are tall - after you are dead, of course - and leave a few dollars in the will, to quench their thirst, mate! \n\nRest in peace : )
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brown recluse spiders and timber rattlers.  not sure what else but those are enough for me.  there are also many cases of rabies from rodent bites each year.
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Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of Indonesia.
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i think the in the seas near australia\nmany shark attacks have been reported from those parts
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Roaches, Snakes most of all. I also fear dogs that I don't know or don't know me. When I was younger around 7 or 8 my sister and I was walking when we were and out of no where came this dog out of no where and bit her on the leg. She had to have around 100 stitches inside and out, and she still has the scar of it to this day.
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The pits are poisoneous to most animals.
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There is the whole Death Meatal scene and the European Black Metal stuff from like Norway and Sweeden.  Also Australia has some Kick but dark metal.
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we have dragons in australia.....you must be foreign