I currently have a huntsman spider sitting on my kitchen wall as I'm watching this and he's bigger than my hand. I call him Fred. He's just chilling there, waiting for a mosquito dinner
My wife and I went to Australia onholiday, it is beautiful country. We found a beautiful beach and my wife decided to have a swim. She was a bit nervous about what was in ocean so she was entered cautiously. There was a Cocodile Dundee type character sat by the sea so she asked him "are there many sharks in this area"? In a slow drawl he replied " not many in this area". Feeling encouraged she waded further out when the man spoke again, " Used to have a lot of sharks in the area, but the salt water crocs ate them all".
Fun fact: Modern crocodiles are almost identical to crocodiles from 200 million years ago, meaning they cracked the code for the perfect apex predator build for their environment and have stayed basically the same since
If you're going to meet an Australian spider, or have one in your house, you want a Huntsman spider! They eat the other spiders and insects, no messy webs and almost always run away from you. The scariest thing they do is jump. They are a hunter who ambush their prey, an unsuspecting bug strolls past and BAM, they pounce and no more bug. Super handy for if you live in the bush and are prone to insects making their way inside.
Totally, I've got one hanging around now and I'm fine with it. We call it Harry. However, once you're sitting on the toilet and it wanders by your feet it gets put outside. :)
Ive had a few huntsmen come inside .. I think they like houses because outside is frost and magpies and stuff. Ive never really made friends with one, but some people can get them to walk on thier shoulders and etc.
Huntsmen are fast, jump to run away from you, and play possum if you try to kill them. It can look dead on the ground and you go to get something to pick it up - when you come back it's gone and you'll find it on a wall a week later. Honestly a lot of Aussies name them and just let them hang out in their houses.
Yes, but I live in Qld. We have a tonne of geckos here. They live in your house, they run away from you, and they eat all spiders and insects and they are not scary. Spiders do not last long inside here. Geckos are the House Insect King.
One of the first known fatalities from a blue ringed octopus was a visiting American sailor who saw the cute little fella on the beach and picked it up, he died within 7 mins.
There is something else related to deadly animals that we don’t have in Australia. We don’t have rabies. It’s one of the many reasons our animal quarantine laws are so strict, we want to keep it out because it’s nice knowing some random animal isn’t going to suddenly turn deadly.
@@dangelnut no, some bats carry bat lyssavirus which is related, but we have no rabies. If a bat bites you should go to hospital but you should do that with any animal bite because of bacteria.
Bat lyssavirus is closely related to rabies enough that the rabies vaccine is used to prevent and treat it. If you touch a bat, even if it doesn't break the skin as far as you know, you have to go through the whole rabies vaccine fuckery or risk a horrific death. A kid died in 2008 because he picked up an injured bat and helped it, it didn't even scratch him. Once you get rabies/bat lyssavirus it is incurable. It is 100% fatal. NEVER touch a bat.
Alyssavirus is a cousin of rabies ....acts like rabies, it's good enough for me for it to be called rabies . (Smells like a duck,quacks like a duck....sorta thing) there's been a few people die from it qld. Mt Morgan and Brisbane. Ask the families about the symptoms.....
Had to laugh when they explained that it was hard to make a living in the desert areas. The miners might disagree with that. Sure, it’s inhospitable, but there is plenty of money to be made. FIFO makes it much more bearable.
They didn't talk about the irukanji jellyfish. I personally have been stung by a bluebottle and that made me lose vision so i was lucky as a child to be on a busy beach with surf lifesavers! They used vinegar on it.
Yes, my mate was stung by irukandji, a mo th in intensive care, 6 months on morphine and his central nervous system compromised, when it happened and before the rescue chopper arrived he was given 3 shots of morphine within 30 minutes.
Our family did a 4wd trip up to kakadu national park in Northern Territory when I was a kid. We had carried an 11ft dinghy/tinny/boat on the roof and launched it in to a river on the way. My mum fell out of it as we pulled into sure. She laughed and struggled to get out of the water and we thought little of it. In the next town we were told those waters had crocs. Still haunts me. Later we saw crocs twice the length and the same width as the boat.
Oh wow, I guess you could say ignorance is bliss in this instance. I visited Kakadu 7 years ago. Gorgeous place, but you wouldn't see people taking small boats into a river like that lol.
In my town if the croc is too big, around the 4-5 metre mark, they’ll actually remove it because we have rowers and people who love to fish. Our crocodile in our zoo is 5ish metres and he was fished out of our local river. His name is The Kernel. The others would usually go to The Crocodile Farm.
@@kylegibson5933 North of the barrage in Rockhampton is an international standard stretch of rowing water. If memory serves correctly, some international teams trained there before the 2000 Olympics. I could be wrong though.
I got bitten by a redback spider 🕷️ and had trouble breathing so had to go to hospital to have the antivenin. A few hours later I was discharged. It wasn’t that big of a deal. I went to a party that night and got to show off my wound and tell everyone my story which got better every time I told it haha
@@OzSkitzo fangs on it like a snake and the bastard chased me around the garage hunting me down until it got those 60cm fangs deep into my hand. It was then imbedded in me and had to be surgically removed. I almost died on the operating table 😂
Maybe you were bitten by the male redback...it is the female that is much more potent or deadly. She has a larger red mark on her back than the male. I have been told that once the male & female mate...then female will kill the male.....
The reason there so little saltwater crocodile attacks is because people are so careful and cautious about them, and another thing in australia, in our summers when the stingers (jellyfish) are out, we have stinger nets that are on the beach which are giant nets that people swim in that stop any jellyfish from getting in where the people are, not sure if that is common in other parts of the world but thought it was interesting
I had an Inland Taipan rear up ready to strike me. I was working at a remote town that had a medical clinic that was only staffed once every two weeks by nurses and sometimes a doctor who flew in. The Taipan was reacting to me chasing it, which I needed to do as it went to hide under drums of chemicals we needed to load onto aircraft (crop dusters spraying for a locust plague). I kept a shovel between myself and it and fortunately didn't need to kill it (which is illegal and also mostly unnecessary). The only plus side we had, was the multiple spotter aircraft at our disposal. If I did get bitten, myself (the aircraft refueler) and the chemical loader had first aid training so we'd have wrapped it up and called in one of the aircraft to fly me to the nearest hospital (about 3 hours drive or about 1.5 hours flying). The venom from our snakes moves via the lymphatic system, so if you keep still (particular the limb that is bitten) it only moves slowly. So staying calm, wrapping with a pressure immobilisation bandage and not moving about means you can have HOURS before you start to get sick. There are stories of Aboriginal peoples getting bitten and just laying down right away and staying still for a day or two, then getting up and walking away. I'm not sure how true those stories are, but hospitals often will not give you the antivenom until they see a certain level of effect from the venom. And whilst it may have enough venom to kill 100 people, it does not mean it will use that venom. Snakes may "dry bite" as a warning whilst not wasting their venom on something they can't eat.
I learnt about the immobilisation and dry bites at this reptile centre in Alice Springs. It's true that in the unlikely event you're bitten by a snake there are things you can do to dramatically increase your survival - you aren't immediately screwed.
had a neighbour with a special licence years ago allowing him to breed taipans. when i was 12 he had newly hatched inland taipans before they had their fangs and i was given the chance to hold them. craziest thing ive done
@@pepperonii2013 snakes don't nurture their young. I've always believed from the time they take their first breath they're fanged up ready to make perceived kills.
I live in Melbourne, never see snakes, hardly ever see spiders, even then they're harmless. You really have to go looking for dangerous critters, and most live in the outback, tropical or sub-tropical climes.
Had a huntsman on my windscreen of my car the other night .... Better on the outside than the in I suppose .... Bloody thing hung on to the car for two half hour trips up and down the freeway. Silly thing was on my side as I tried to get out a few knocks on the door sent it scurrying so I could get out .... They are harmless ... But I don't want one on me.
Brisbane isnt too bad, but I’ve ran into a couple funnel webs, eastern browns, red bellies, and red backs. Never had any problems with em tho, just don’t bug them lmao
I’ve got a Sydney funny web in my garden, she’s harmless as long as we leave her alone , but any disturbance by her nest and she’s out ready for a scrap 😂 , in my garage I have a small huntsman, only about 4 inches across, that’s made itself at home in there & moves around the whole garage hunting other spiders , bugs etc it’s totally harmless though. Had an eastern brown on my doorstep a few weeks ago , that was kinder scary but it moved on after a while. I love Aussie wildlife ❤
I remember the story about the guy getting killed by a bull shark. He was fleeing from police when he jumped into the river. He called for help but they couldnt save him. They found him a few days later. It was kinda tragic to be honest, I dont even think his crimes were that bad (though Im not certain).
Doesn't matter about the relative badness of his crimes ... we don't have capital punishment here in Australia. Getting done by a shark was harsh way to go. Must have been horrific for his family and for police at the scene. Poor guy RIP
@@zoeolsson5683 well it does. If the crim had harmed little children or was a predator of females and/or kiddies then I'd call it Divine justice. If his crimes were of a non-violent nature however then I'd agree with your sentiments.
Most spiders will enter through the roof.. And a lot will just crawl under the front back door. Honestly window is less likely as that where they would rather hang web to catch flys bouncing of the window screens.
He missed a few deadly animals. Yearly fatalities are as follows; Dogs 53, Kangaroos 37, Snakes 37, Bees 31. The reason Kangaroos are so high on the list is that the stupid bastards jump out in front of cars when you least expect it (usually at night, but particularly at dawn and dusk).
Those numbers are legit mate, you just missed a couple of the other most dangerous and their kill tally.. Drop bears are responsible for a fatality every 48mins in Australia on average, and I was on the Tactical Response team that was called in to take out that Quokka that went on the mass shooting on Rottnest Island last month killing 19 people.. The government just controls the news and keeps all the real figures secret! 😑😶🤣
My understanding is that there are way more horse-related injuries and deaths in Australia than all other animals combined. You can look up the report "Horse-related injury in Australia" ISSN: 1037 1591 Cat. no: INJ 26 Pages: 20
When I was a kid I went into the ocean, about a hundred feet out from shore. Right in front of me near my neck was a blue ringed octopus, pulsating blue rings. That means it was ready for defensive action. I moved away very slowly not wanting to drag it closer and I turned around wanting to get the hell away from it and then saw a cluster of about six or seven of them right near me. Inches away a crescent moon of these beautiful death calamari barring my way to shore. I took a deep breath and crawled a few metres along the sandy floor and then swam as fast as I could out of there. You want to know about the Blue Ringed Octopus, better to find out any other way than I did. I'm just relieved that as a local I know that you just don't touch them because they look awesome. In fact, once bitten you have about four minutes before the toxin makes it impossible to breath unassisted. Oh yeah I almost forgot, there's no antidote.
On the topic of sharks. In the film JAWS, the footage of the huge great white sharks was filmed here in South Australia 🇦🇺 I remember as a kid having to get out of the water when the patrol helicopter sounded its sirens. Doesn’t really work like that anymore tho. I know at bondi beach the lifeguards sound a siren from their tower. You just don’t see that many anymore unless you’re swimming where there is fishing like York peninsula where they catch tuna from, sharks be all over that joint trying to get a feed. They are so friggin big. Scary
56 years on this earth living in Australia the only 2 things besides mosquitoes to bite/sting me is a bee I stepped on and bull ants I also stepped on their nest! If you don't fuck with them our animals won't fuck with you!
I like how quite a few of us Aussie’s had pet huntsman’s that just showed up one day. I called mine Mr. Spidey (I was 8 or 9 years old), he was missing a leg and he lived at the top of my bedroom wall for about 6ish months till he disappeared one day. The funny thing is I’m terrified of spiders and have been since I was a toddler.
I love how positive your vibes are towards Australia! Yeah we have crazy deadly animals but it’s such an amazing beautiful country, love your uploads 😊❤
lol vinegar is an acid ph not alkaline , also urine. Have you heard of urinic acid omfg where did you learn. chemistry. If your urine is the alkaline base go and get help..Urea another example acid based supplements for soil when hydrated with water increases nitrogen, why peeing on a fruit tree is loved by them . CARBAMIDE
Yeah scary before they had venom. We found a few around the pool under floating toys. They'd rare up. Fangs ready to strike. Mum would build kettle and poor it over them. Effective but best done at a distance. They love having a go.
Yeah, of all those animals, the one that freaks me out the most is definitely the Crocodiles (especially Saltwater Crocodiles). With all those other animals, an encounter can be a little scary but there’s a strong likelihood you won’t get attacked. Completely different ball game when it comes to Crocodiles as they will not only defend their territory, but actively seek you out as a potential food source. The other animal that freaks me out is the Stonefish. Never encountered one but definitely not interested in stepping on one.
Talk to anyone who works at a reptile park or zoo and they'll tell you that the saltwater crocs are the most dangerous. Take alligators for example, as scary and as dangerous as they may well be, they will not hunt a man until they're much much bigger than an adult. [Corner one or go near its nest and they will attack of course] Salties on the other hand, when they're smaller than a man they'll grab several of their mates and work as a team to hunt down a man. Really scary animals.
In 2011 a bull shark was seen swimming up the main street of Ipswich (near Brisbane) during a flood, which chased the local butcher (Steven Bateman) into his shop. After an hour he came out to wade to his car and was confronted by an Easter Brown snake swimming toward him, followed by a number of plate-sized Huntsman spiders. A mate of mine (Jack Sloss) competed in a contest out West at croc-infested 'Martin's Waterhole' with 16 blokes. The first test was a race around it, second test was a swimming race THROUGH it. ('They pretty harmless.' Jack told me. 'Its the salties you have to watch.' ) My old grandma-neighbour leaned over the fence one day and said; 'If you go out to the front garden you'll see a carpet snake (python) sunning itself. It lives in my back garden usually.They do bite ... but they're not poisonous.' Brisbane.
I was travelling around Australia in my early 20s (born and raised here)... I was in the top end NT and decided to go swimming in the local hot spring, there were signs everywhere stating that fresh water crocs regularly swim through there, well that didnt phase anyone, we'd just move to the side, let him pass and then continue swimming... but while I was there having a few drinks with mates, a salty came through, and no one realised it was one until it got closer to the clearer parts (after it passed us)... there was also a sink hole further down, and everyone jumped into the water from a cliff there, and I nearly jumped straight onto a freshies head...
A University of Sydney study a few years ago analysed kelpie DNA and found no traces of dingo DNA. The allegation that dingos were bred with kelpies over a hundred years ago was from a book written by a shearer, but there’s no genetic evidence of this ever happening.
The other thing to remember is that it’s all about location!!! Crocs like it warm so they only really show up in the wild from about half way up Queensland, and get more common the further north you go. Sharks can be anywhere but they mostly show up on the west coast and where the surfers are, so if you’re swimming between the flags near the shore then you’re very unlikely to see one. Jellyfish are also usually in the north but we’ve got stinger suits and nets now so they’re rarely an issue these days. As for the snakes, spiders, lizards and other creepy crawlies, they’re mostly all inland in the bush, which is easy enough to avoid! Just use your common sense! You leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone ❤️ It’s as simple as ‘don’t poke the bear.’ (A commonly used phrase despite the fact that we have no bears whatsoever 😜😂)
We actually have what’s called the royal flying doctor service. They have small planes so they can reach the more rural towns when emergencies happen. Essentially a flying ambulance. We only use helicopters to transport those closer to cities.
Here in Australia we grow up knowing what to stay away from. I think i was 15 when our school took us on an aboriginal camp where we learned to kill snakes, kangaroos and small game but also what to stay away from and how to spot certain things like plants but also make use of everything so we learned to cook and to this day like 18 years later i still know which spiders i can pick up and play with and which ones i cant. We pass down what we know and hope the next generation can keep that tradition going.
Wildlife related deaths in Australia: less than 250 in a 10 year period, caused mostly by Horses, Dogs and Cows. Horses showing to be the overwhelming winner for deaths caused.
I walked into my sisters room last night and saw a mid sized huntsman spider sitting on some sheets and said hello, and told her, and my sister said “oh it’s all good.” Huntsman spiders are amazing for keeping other bugs at bay during spring g and summer.
I've seen blue ringed octopi in the wild. They're surprisingly small and very, very cute looking. The rings only light up if they're agitated or feel threatened.
Note you cant legally have dingoes as "pets". You can only have them if have a particular permit. Or if you run a sanctuary zoo wildlife park etc. Same with every native animal. And isolated is a state of mind. Aussies travel everywhere all the time
@@sean2407Getting the permits might be easy but technically, in NSW you can only have a part or full dingo if theyve been bred in captivity. You cant remove one from the wild to keep as a pet. In Queensland theyre classed as an invasive species under the Biosecurity Act so you cant "move feed keep give away sell or release" them. If theyre being kept as pets against local legislation thats on those owners.
@@kerrydoutch5104 You can't go catch fish and take them home for pets either or lizards, birds, rocks, dirt and plants. That's not because dingos are heavily restricted or hard to get. You may aswell have said "note: theft is bad"
@@kari2570 adult snakes are able to control how much venom they inject. Black snakes are deadly so it sounds like the snake held back from envenomating you. That's what's called a 'bugger off' bite. It would not surprise me if it was a red-belly black snake that are not aggressive unless cornered or attacked.
In Australia we have giant Orb weaver spiders hanging out the front of our house, whereas in the UK you're lucky if you see a house spider, mainly just harmless Garden Spiders, big downside of living in Australia for sure.
I have a wolf spider sitting above my beer fridge, we have an agreement, she watches my beers and I leave her alone…. No one else wants to go to my fridge lol
You have far more deadly animals in the USA than there are in Australia, if you go for a walk in the Australian bush you won't encounter any bears, cougars or wolves, if you have a swim in Australian creeks you won't be bitten by a water moccasin or a snapping turtle, you might meet the occasional snake but the USA has its fair share of rattlesnakes and other venomous varieties. Of course if anybody is stupid enough to swim in creeks and rivers in the far north of Australia they can expect to be eaten by crocs, you also have alligators in the wetlands of southern USA. The most dangerous animal you'll meet in the USA is the human animal, most of them carry guns and they'll use them without provocation.
I live in east Arnhem Land in the NT. We do not swim in the sea due to box jelly fish, crocs and sharks. They don’t worry me but when you come across a NT tarantula, that’s a different story, they are the size of a bush rat! I believe they are not venomous, they can give you a nasty bite if you annoy them. They are about 6cm in body and longer legs. Shared the crap out of me!
I live in a semi rural country town surrounded by bushland and 20 minutes from many beaches. We get it all here. As long as you follow simple rules of checking under bedsheets each night, tapping shoes for spiders before putting them on (we get a lot of funnel web spiders here and brown snakes) and not leaving towels, clothes on floor and never pick anything up in the yard without checking first then you’ll be fine. Our local beach here is also the second biggest shark nesting sites too but we still swim.
Irukandji jellyfish were the ones i was iffy about i think they are related to the box jellyfish but are only about the size of your pinky finger nail 1cm³ and they cause irukandji syndrome, which can be fatal and difficult to immediately recognize due to the delayed effects of the venom.
Kangaroos get hit by cars all the time and people have been killed and injured. But its not common. The car and the roo are usually toast. More people are killed here by cattle and horses than from our wildlife. Except from drop bears. And hoop snakes. Theyre lethal
@@Mr_ducky_378 you wont see them coming .... just be careful stay out from under trees and smear vegemite behind your ears. They dont like that. Oh and apparently theyre mostly ok if they hear ozzie accents but not foreign accents.
Obviously the list isnt everything but as a kid in Australia I was aware of some others too, such as the stonefish, blue bottles, lion fish, death adder snake, red belly black snake, copperhead snake, tiger snaker, ticks, redback spider, and some ants and even centipedes! But its safe here I swear 😂
Great Video guys. When I was 14 we went around Australia as a family- my dad gave us a note to take 3 months off school and it was awesome. We stayed at a place called Geikie Gorge in Western Australia. The three of us teenage boys would sleep outside on camp stretchers. When we woke up in the morning there were crocodile footprints all through the camp and some of them were fairly big. We stopped at a place called Wyndham where they held the largest crocodile in captivity- a Saltwater crocodile that was 27 feet long!
i moved to western australia from overseas 12 years ago. never seen those spiders. infact apart from the odd snake out in the country roads, ive never seen any of those creatures
Yes it’s over exaggerated. Yes they are here, but they aren’t roaming the streets ready to attack us lol. I’ve been bitten by one spider, ouch, a white tail, but didn’t kill me.
Redbacks are everywhere. We had three one day on the passage wall. I've found them in a filing cabinet, a dresser drawer, hiding in the rung of a ladder. Nests along the sunroom wall and others in the cracks of bricks. When we first came to Australia in 1968 my brother had one crawl under the car he was fixing and we found others in the outdoor toilet ( the dunny). My husband was hospitalised aged 11 when he was bitten by a redback on a scout outing; he woke up unable to move the next morning and spent several days in hospital. Redbacks are easy to deal with; wack them with your shoe or a nearby book. Huntsmen spiders are daily visitors but harmless. I've seen Cassowaries in Far North Queensland around Cairns, none of them full grown and we didn't approach them so as not to stress the animal. Also in Cairns we had encounters with 10 snakes in six weeks. One death adder lying sunning on the road ( my daughter nearly stepped on it) One taipan that tried to get into the house via the front door. We also had a smaller snake which followed my husband into the house, and he kicked it back outside. One tree python which came out of a pile of shoes and climbed the screen door of a house my husband was dropping our daughter at for a birthday party ( lots of screaming) ... and the others we couldn't identify.
I know a guy who was working in the outback near Woomera replacing telegraph poles. He was with a crew on a truck loaded with new poles,he went to pull a pole off the back and there was a king brown in the poles that bit him,they were 200 km from the closest medical care,but fortunately,they had all been drinking beer,and were quite pissed , he started vomiting red fluid ,not blood,turned out to be the poison from the king brown reacting with the alcohol in his blood,and that’s what saved him
The shark attack he talked about in the river was 2 mins from where I live, a teenage girl jumped in the water cause she seen a pod of dolphins and wanted to swim with them! Not long before that another guy was attacked not far from where she died and the bull shark hit this guy with such force it broke his hip, he survived.
This is why we admired Stevie Irwin because he was brave enough to jump on a full grown croc alone. Also by the time you viewed this video there has been 2 more fatal shark attacks on our shores. Sam's was the worst though as it was caught on camera..
I’ve had a few male Sydney funnel web spiders walk through my garage while I was in there. They go walk about looking for females. Put a container just in front of them and they walk straight in. Then just put out in the garden 😊
Australia's response to remote emergencies is the Flying Doctor Service. Remote places all over the country have landing strips to allow the Flying Doctors to land small planes like ambulances.
Most of the shark fatalities are surfers when they are sitting waiting for a wave .Where I live is a large saltwater lake and the local council has been stuffing around with the shoreline so now it's becoming a perfect area for Blue ring octopuses. Another good reaction men.
The most deadly animal in australia - the horse. More people die from being thrown from horses than all of the animals in this video combined, then multiplied several times. I have a nice huntsman spider in my home. A permanently lit led strip attracts other insects and the huntsman hangs around it and eats well lol
It's interesting to note that the inland taipan was really only discovered in 1972, a fact put down to its isolated habitat, and how deadly its is. Another intriguing point to note is that while our snakes remain the most poisonous, and just as as likely to bite, our level of health care, world leading anti-venom, and the fact that we are well versed in how to respond to a snake encounter and snake first aid, has meant that our snakes are no longer the deadliest in the world, simply we generally know how to survive them. Even more interestingly (although not really surprising) is that Indigenous Australians also excelled in snake first aid: where I live they would bury the body of the person bitten in sand, which kept them still and provided pressure to the bite. in the Northern Territory they would drop to the ground and not move for three days. Both of which reduce lymphatic flow and thus the spread of the venom, dramatically increasing a persons chance of survival. To keep going with a Aussie animal facts, a croc handler once informed me that it was fairly safe to handle a 6 month old alligater, but a 6 week old croc is likely to take your finger off.
really enjoying your thoughts and comments guys. I live in the blue mountains national park just west of sydney so we are constantly engaging in possible health risky wildlife interactions... come over and embrace the fear ! Its totally worth it.
We're from Melbourne, but once, staying in Sydney, our boys were playing basketball with the boys next door. The ball knocked a downpipe and out popped a funnelweb ! They used up practically a whole can of bug spray on it, but it was still walking around. So then they lit it on fire and it was this little flaming blob walking ..... until it finally dropped!
Dingoes are beautiful intelligent animals. Some people keep them as pets, but they need special fencing. An 8 foot fence does not keep them in and they will go 30kms to get their prey and be back before you know they are gone. When I was younger, my girlfriends and I got a shepard/labrador/dingo from the pound to take travelling with us. We had him 6 weeks before we heard him bark, but he was more likely to howl....the house we lived in was haunted. He was so smart and we could trust him not to take food out of a babies hand. He was excellent. We would sneak him onto the trains in Sydney and he was so good!
They are good pets but the wild ones will size you up. I had one in my tent at Uluru a couple of years before Azaria Chamberlain was taken. I was with two friends we were 13 years old and the dog was thinking of having a go. It was pitch black and it frighten us but I knew I had to take charge and act bigger and braver than I felt. I'm not scared of dogs and always thought they were placid but it was hungry and really considered attacking. If I was alone it may have tried. That poor mother endured the wrath of the nation. I knew she was telling the truth but at the time everyione believed they were harmless. They now know dens surround the rock.
I see the occasional huntsman, a lot of wolf spiders and redbacks around my house though. Most beaches have jellyfish but they kinda come and go through the seasons. Only seen a couple of blue ring octopus in my life, they are absolutly gorgeous but definatly dont touch them. There are a lot more aggresive things here than mentioned in that video though. Im enjoying your videos reacting to aussie stuff. Keep it up bois.
My mate spent a month in intensive care after an irukanji sting, 6 months on morphine and he was never the same as his central nervous system was compromised due to the toxin. They are incredibly dangerous and deadly.
i must say guys, please don`t be too afraid of our wild life, most you never see and if you do "don`t touch". Not that their dangerous ,some are, butt just leave them alone. Most people do not come across the most lethal or deadly in every day life here, butt out of the cities, in the country or the outback they will. let them do what they do and they will let you do what you. Don`t Fuck with them , they will not bother you. Australia down under. love your stuff keep it up .
People do have Dingoes as pets... The reviewed video signficantly lacks any historical data. I can count on one hand the amount of "oh fuck no" snakes/spiders I've seen in my life since being born barely after 1981 and living here. Bull Sharks are the more cheeky bastards here even though Whites have the better K:D. Bull Sharks can go in salt/fresh water, so whilst not chalking up the fatalities they can still significantly maim in various water bodies of folks tryint to escape the heat - but still rare. Box Jellyfish are also called Irukandji in their native name - they're not fun but they're in certain locations which are also typically signed at the beach themself so farely easy to avoid too.
They may have them but they're not supposed to. The council rangers years ago used to destroy the animal if you were caught. I went to a barbecue in Freo as a teenager in 1979, and the hosts owned a dingo; he was very quiet and stand-offish; otherwise he seemed like a domestic dog to me. I occasionally see dingo crosses advertised online on 'gumtree'.
In Australia there are 2 or 3 snake bite fatalities each year. Bites most often happen when people try to pick them up or kill them. All a snake wants to do is get away from you. I live in prime eastern brown habitat and I’ve only seen one once, and that was its back half as it was rushing to get out of my way. And as for the inland taipan, yes the venom is crazily toxic, but there is no record of anyone being killed by one. I’d be much more worried if I lived in a place where I might meet a mountain lion or bear.
One thing they didn't mention is the Irukandji - it is an extremely venomous jellyfish around 1cm long (yes a little over 1/4 inch) and it can be fatal - apparently, we recently found out that they actively hunt prey too. They are usually in the warmer waters, but have been slowly moving south and have now been found around Fraser Island off the Queensland coast.
@@swiimports5210 yes very different - a box jellyfish is quite large (up to 30cm across and with 3m long tentacles) whereas an irukandji is about 1cm across.
People get so scared to come to Aus but realistically you almost never see any of these animals unless you live in the Northern Territory or further inland
Box jelly fish are no joke. It's not common for fatalities because people know not to be in those waters. They have been known to end people's live in less than 30 seconds. Salt water crocs are dinosaurs and get bigger and more aggressive than any alligator.
Brisbane to Perth is like Baltimore to LA, except about 3 hours after driving out of Baltimore, you're in Nevada, and you stay in Nevada until you reach Sacramento. Then it's southern california for the last 3 hours.
I think the narrator underplayed the fact that the deadly ‘brown snakes’ are found not only in bushland and parks but also in gardens in the suburbs as well. It’s scary if you come across them unexpectedly, they’ll more than likely just slither off unless you accidentally stand on them then they’ll definitely bite to protect themselves.
I currently have a huntsman spider sitting on my kitchen wall as I'm watching this and he's bigger than my hand. I call him Fred. He's just chilling there, waiting for a mosquito dinner
What's his name ?
@@macman1469I thought they were always frank or fred...
I have one to he comes and goes when he wants, I even named him harry the huntsman.
The last huntsman I had my mate ate it drunk..
@@macman1469
My mother called all our Huntsman Harry lol.
NOPE! 😂
My wife and I went to Australia onholiday, it is beautiful country. We found a beautiful beach and my wife decided to have a swim. She was a bit nervous about what was in ocean so she was entered cautiously. There was a Cocodile Dundee type character sat by the sea so she asked him "are there many sharks in this area"? In a slow drawl he replied " not many in this area". Feeling encouraged she waded further out when the man spoke again, " Used to have a lot of sharks in the area, but the salt water crocs ate them all".
Aussie humour is great isn't it?
The most Aussie response to a tourist
Yeah, I remember the 4 X beer ad that had that joke in it 30 years ago.
😂
And you were probably in NSW at the time. 🤣
Sharks aren't the issue. Irukanji, blue ringed octopus or box jellyfish fish are.
Fun fact: Modern crocodiles are almost identical to crocodiles from 200 million years ago, meaning they cracked the code for the perfect apex predator build for their environment and have stayed basically the same since
I was going to say this glad I scrolled first I hate repeating comments
Well, Sarcosuchus are almost identical other than size, strength and obvious typical movement...
If you're going to meet an Australian spider, or have one in your house, you want a Huntsman spider!
They eat the other spiders and insects, no messy webs and almost always run away from you. The scariest thing they do is jump.
They are a hunter who ambush their prey, an unsuspecting bug strolls past and BAM, they pounce and no more bug. Super handy for if you live in the bush and are prone to insects making their way inside.
Totally, I've got one hanging around now and I'm fine with it. We call it Harry. However, once you're sitting on the toilet and it wanders by your feet it gets put outside. :)
@@David_Beames
You're a Spider, Harry !!!!!!!
Ive had a few huntsmen come inside .. I think they like houses because outside is frost and magpies and stuff. Ive never really made friends with one, but some people can get them to walk on thier shoulders and etc.
Huntsmen are fast, jump to run away from you, and play possum if you try to kill them. It can look dead on the ground and you go to get something to pick it up - when you come back it's gone and you'll find it on a wall a week later. Honestly a lot of Aussies name them and just let them hang out in their houses.
Yes, but I live in Qld. We have a tonne of geckos here. They live in your house, they run away from you, and they eat all spiders and insects and they are not scary. Spiders do not last long inside here. Geckos are the House Insect King.
One of the first known fatalities from a blue ringed octopus was a visiting American sailor who saw the cute little fella on the beach and picked it up, he died within 7 mins.
There is something else related to deadly animals that we don’t have in Australia. We don’t have rabies. It’s one of the many reasons our animal quarantine laws are so strict, we want to keep it out because it’s nice knowing some random animal isn’t going to suddenly turn deadly.
ah we do actually have it so if you get bitten u should always go to the hospital
@@dangelnut no, some bats carry bat lyssavirus which is related, but we have no rabies. If a bat bites you should go to hospital but you should do that with any animal bite because of bacteria.
@@dangelnutI'd say if any exotic animal bites you, you should go to the hospital
Bat lyssavirus is closely related to rabies enough that the rabies vaccine is used to prevent and treat it. If you touch a bat, even if it doesn't break the skin as far as you know, you have to go through the whole rabies vaccine fuckery or risk a horrific death. A kid died in 2008 because he picked up an injured bat and helped it, it didn't even scratch him. Once you get rabies/bat lyssavirus it is incurable. It is 100% fatal. NEVER touch a bat.
Alyssavirus is a cousin of rabies ....acts like rabies, it's good enough for me for it to be called rabies . (Smells like a duck,quacks like a duck....sorta thing) there's been a few people die from it qld. Mt Morgan and Brisbane. Ask the families about the symptoms.....
Had to laugh when they explained that it was hard to make a living in the desert areas. The miners might disagree with that. Sure, it’s inhospitable, but there is plenty of money to be made. FIFO makes it much more bearable.
I'm watching this in my room at Eloise mine site 50 klms south of Cloncurry in NW QLD.
More money to be made in the desert than on the coast if you're prepared to work for it.
Ha yeah, you can make a lot more money in the remote regions, if you're willing to work there.
Us farmers do alright too. Lol
We just need an Aussie Las Vegas to liven the desert up a bit! 😂
They didn't talk about the irukanji jellyfish. I personally have been stung by a bluebottle and that made me lose vision so i was lucky as a child to be on a busy beach with surf lifesavers! They used vinegar on it.
Yes, my mate was stung by irukandji, a mo th in intensive care, 6 months on morphine and his central nervous system compromised, when it happened and before the rescue chopper arrived he was given 3 shots of morphine within 30 minutes.
Yeah I'm an Aussie and I am shit scared of Irukanji
Yep. f'in Irukanji. Those things are so small.
Our family did a 4wd trip up to kakadu national park in Northern Territory when I was a kid. We had carried an 11ft dinghy/tinny/boat on the roof and launched it in to a river on the way. My mum fell out of it as we pulled into sure. She laughed and struggled to get out of the water and we thought little of it. In the next town we were told those waters had crocs. Still haunts me. Later we saw crocs twice the length and the same width as the boat.
You and your whole family are insane.
Oh wow, I guess you could say ignorance is bliss in this instance. I visited Kakadu 7 years ago. Gorgeous place, but you wouldn't see people taking small boats into a river like that lol.
The smaller the boat, the bigger the risk. Dunno why you would put a small boat like that in the river.
How funny as I’m watching this a huntsman goes running across the floor. I just look at it and keep watching this 😂
As an indigenous Australian, I really enjoy these vids. Pls don't stop ❤
In my town if the croc is too big, around the 4-5 metre mark, they’ll actually remove it because we have rowers and people who love to fish. Our crocodile in our zoo is 5ish metres and he was fished out of our local river. His name is The Kernel. The others would usually go to The Crocodile Farm.
@nelliesmith5699 Sounds like you live in Rocky. I spent 22 years in Rockhampton. Moved there in '88/9 and left in 2011.
i love Colonel!! he's always my first and last stop at the zoo!!
Who the fuck Rows in croc water 😂 you asking for it, that's a silver platter.
@@kylegibson5933 North of the barrage in Rockhampton is an international standard stretch of rowing water. If memory serves correctly, some international teams trained there before the 2000 Olympics. I could be wrong though.
Magpie's have also claimed a few lives over the years too. For a small bird they are ferocious when it comes to Spring.
I got bitten by a redback spider 🕷️ and had trouble breathing so had to go to hospital to have the antivenin. A few hours later I was discharged. It wasn’t that big of a deal. I went to a party that night and got to show off my wound and tell everyone my story which got better every time I told it haha
Biggest Red Back ever seen, as big as your fist?
or so the legend goes lol
@@OzSkitzo fangs on it like a snake and the bastard chased me around the garage hunting me down until it got those 60cm fangs deep into my hand. It was then imbedded in me and had to be surgically removed. I almost died on the operating table 😂
@@user-gd5rm4ud8k any spiderman-ish symptoms? I hear they can be radioactive.
Maybe you were bitten by the male redback...it is the female that is much more potent or deadly.
She has a larger red mark on her back than the male. I have been told that once the male & female mate...then female will kill the male.....
The reason there so little saltwater crocodile attacks is because people are so careful and cautious about them, and another thing in australia, in our summers when the stingers (jellyfish) are out, we have stinger nets that are on the beach which are giant nets that people swim in that stop any jellyfish from getting in where the people are, not sure if that is common in other parts of the world but thought it was interesting
I had an Inland Taipan rear up ready to strike me.
I was working at a remote town that had a medical clinic that was only staffed once every two weeks by nurses and sometimes a doctor who flew in.
The Taipan was reacting to me chasing it, which I needed to do as it went to hide under drums of chemicals we needed to load onto aircraft (crop dusters spraying for a locust plague).
I kept a shovel between myself and it and fortunately didn't need to kill it (which is illegal and also mostly unnecessary).
The only plus side we had, was the multiple spotter aircraft at our disposal.
If I did get bitten, myself (the aircraft refueler) and the chemical loader had first aid training so we'd have wrapped it up and called in one of the aircraft to fly me to the nearest hospital (about 3 hours drive or about 1.5 hours flying).
The venom from our snakes moves via the lymphatic system, so if you keep still (particular the limb that is bitten) it only moves slowly.
So staying calm, wrapping with a pressure immobilisation bandage and not moving about means you can have HOURS before you start to get sick.
There are stories of Aboriginal peoples getting bitten and just laying down right away and staying still for a day or two, then getting up and walking away.
I'm not sure how true those stories are, but hospitals often will not give you the antivenom until they see a certain level of effect from the venom.
And whilst it may have enough venom to kill 100 people, it does not mean it will use that venom.
Snakes may "dry bite" as a warning whilst not wasting their venom on something they can't eat.
Seeing they hunt in mouse dens and kill every mouse before they can escape they are capable of striking numerous times in rapid succession.
I learnt about the immobilisation and dry bites at this reptile centre in Alice Springs. It's true that in the unlikely event you're bitten by a snake there are things you can do to dramatically increase your survival - you aren't immediately screwed.
@@benrobinson375did you check out the desert park as well while you were here? 🤙🏼
had a neighbour with a special licence years ago allowing him to breed taipans. when i was 12 he had newly hatched inland taipans before they had their fangs and i was given the chance to hold them. craziest thing ive done
@@pepperonii2013 snakes don't nurture their young. I've always believed from the time they take their first breath they're fanged up ready to make perceived kills.
I live in Melbourne, never see snakes, hardly ever see spiders, even then they're harmless.
You really have to go looking for dangerous critters, and most live in the outback, tropical or sub-tropical climes.
True. Most Australians are rarely, if ever, going to encounter these animals in the wild.
Redbacks?
Had a huntsman on my windscreen of my car the other night .... Better on the outside than the in I suppose .... Bloody thing hung on to the car for two half hour trips up and down the freeway. Silly thing was on my side as I tried to get out a few knocks on the door sent it scurrying so I could get out .... They are harmless ... But I don't want one on me.
Brisbane isnt too bad, but I’ve ran into a couple funnel webs, eastern browns, red bellies, and red backs. Never had any problems with em tho, just don’t bug them lmao
I live in Melbourne too, and the only time I saw a snake was when I was about 8 years old. Never seen a spider expect for the zoo's..
My Huntsman mate is just called Geoffrey! 😂 He's alright and eats the mozzies and dangerous spiders.
George for us 😂
What are mozzies?
@@irenemiller9958 mosquito
@@kevo6190 oh, ok. Thanks! Hi from Oregon! 🤗
@@irenemiller9958 G'day from Melbourne
I’ve got a Sydney funny web in my garden, she’s harmless as long as we leave her alone , but any disturbance by her nest and she’s out ready for a scrap 😂 , in my garage I have a small huntsman, only about 4 inches across, that’s made itself at home in there & moves around the whole garage hunting other spiders , bugs etc it’s totally harmless though. Had an eastern brown on my doorstep a few weeks ago , that was kinder scary but it moved on after a while. I love Aussie wildlife ❤
I remember the story about the guy getting killed by a bull shark. He was fleeing from police when he jumped into the river. He called for help but they couldnt save him. They found him a few days later. It was kinda tragic to be honest, I dont even think his crimes were that bad (though Im not certain).
Doesn't matter about the relative badness of his crimes ... we don't have capital punishment here in Australia.
Getting done by a shark was harsh way to go. Must have been horrific for his family and for police at the scene. Poor guy RIP
@@zoeolsson5683 well it does. If the crim had harmed little children or was a predator of females and/or kiddies then I'd call it Divine justice.
If his crimes were of a non-violent nature however then I'd agree with your sentiments.
I freak out if I ever have a small house spider running around - I have window screens fitted to stop them from getting in.
Most spiders will enter through the roof.. And a lot will just crawl under the front back door.
Honestly window is less likely as that where they would rather hang web to catch flys bouncing of the window screens.
He missed a few deadly animals. Yearly fatalities are as follows; Dogs 53, Kangaroos 37, Snakes 37, Bees 31. The reason Kangaroos are so high on the list is that the stupid bastards jump out in front of cars when you least expect it (usually at night, but particularly at dawn and dusk).
Lol where did you get these stats? Not even close to real.
@@chrisdef15 Yep, total fiction. Horses kill more than all the animals in the video combined though.
Those numbers are legit mate, you just missed a couple of the other most dangerous and their kill tally..
Drop bears are responsible for a fatality every 48mins in Australia on average, and I was on the Tactical Response team that was called in to take out that Quokka that went on the mass shooting on Rottnest Island last month killing 19 people..
The government just controls the news and keeps all the real figures secret! 😑😶🤣
My understanding is that there are way more horse-related injuries and deaths in Australia than all other animals combined. You can look up the report "Horse-related injury in Australia" ISSN: 1037 1591
Cat. no: INJ 26
Pages: 20
The most animal related fatalities per year are caused by horses, then it's by cows, then dogs.
"As long as your not an absolute idiot and not looking for trouble you will probably be fine" - nailed it.
When I was a kid I went into the ocean, about a hundred feet out from shore. Right in front of me near my neck was a blue ringed octopus, pulsating blue rings. That means it was ready for defensive action. I moved away very slowly not wanting to drag it closer and I turned around wanting to get the hell away from it and then saw a cluster of about six or seven of them right near me. Inches away a crescent moon of these beautiful death calamari barring my way to shore. I took a deep breath and crawled a few metres along the sandy floor and then swam as fast as I could out of there.
You want to know about the Blue Ringed Octopus, better to find out any other way than I did. I'm just relieved that as a local I know that you just don't touch them because they look awesome. In fact, once bitten you have about four minutes before the toxin makes it impossible to breath unassisted. Oh yeah I almost forgot, there's no antidote.
On the topic of sharks. In the film JAWS, the footage of the huge great white sharks was filmed here in South Australia 🇦🇺 I remember as a kid having to get out of the water when the patrol helicopter sounded its sirens. Doesn’t really work like that anymore tho. I know at bondi beach the lifeguards sound a siren from their tower. You just don’t see that many anymore unless you’re swimming where there is fishing like York peninsula where they catch tuna from, sharks be all over that joint trying to get a feed. They are so friggin big. Scary
The largest Saltwater crocodile ever measured was 20'3" long and weighed 2,370 lbs.
Ah, yes ! Let’s activate the arachnophobia within some of us, shall we?
No need to be activated for me LOL
Just remember this video as you are trying to go to sleep, spiders will be crawling out of your bedsheets hahaha
@@scatterman13 Thanks
@@PokhrajRoy. I'm here to help haha
56 years on this earth living in Australia the only 2 things besides mosquitoes to bite/sting me is a bee I stepped on and bull ants I also stepped on their nest! If you don't fuck with them our animals won't fuck with you!
the dingos are not dangerous to "humans" but to children :DDDDDDDDDD children no human anymore hahaha wtf 01:47
Huntsman spiders, Orb weavers, House spiders and Red Backs most common
I like how quite a few of us Aussie’s had pet huntsman’s that just showed up one day. I called mine Mr. Spidey (I was 8 or 9 years old), he was missing a leg and he lived at the top of my bedroom wall for about 6ish months till he disappeared one day. The funny thing is I’m terrified of spiders and have been since I was a toddler.
I love how positive your vibes are towards Australia! Yeah we have crazy deadly animals but it’s such an amazing beautiful country, love your uploads 😊❤
Arturo is right: Dingo does low-key remind me of Shiba Inu.
Yes i live in Australia and have seen and been up close with every single one of them.
Not piss, warm water or vinegar. It stops the stinging cells from firing or withdrawing their stingers.
Not vinegar either, piss and vinegar are both alkaline and will cause the stingers to fire - plain old water is best.
@@thearmchairjournalist566 thanks mate, need to be reminded like the good ol' rub sand over the bluebottle stings.
lol vinegar is an acid ph not alkaline , also urine. Have you heard of urinic acid omfg where did you learn. chemistry. If your urine is the alkaline base go and get help..Urea another example acid based supplements for soil when hydrated with water increases nitrogen, why peeing on a fruit tree is loved by them . CARBAMIDE
Sydney Funnel Web spider is honestly the most haunting things I’ve ever seen.
Yeah scary before they had venom. We found a few around the pool under floating toys. They'd rare up. Fangs ready to strike. Mum would build kettle and poor it over them. Effective but best done at a distance. They love having a go.
They're aggressive little bastards that will chase you if you dare exist in their space(most of the time your house or backyard)
Have an issue with ~3 of these beasts on a reasonably regular basis, but rarely are they a danger. Tallarook.
Yeah, of all those animals, the one that freaks me out the most is definitely the Crocodiles (especially Saltwater Crocodiles). With all those other animals, an encounter can be a little scary but there’s a strong likelihood you won’t get attacked. Completely different ball game when it comes to Crocodiles as they will not only defend their territory, but actively seek you out as a potential food source.
The other animal that freaks me out is the Stonefish. Never encountered one but definitely not interested in stepping on one.
Talk to anyone who works at a reptile park or zoo and they'll tell you that the saltwater crocs are the most dangerous. Take alligators for example, as scary and as dangerous as they may well be, they will not hunt a man until they're much much bigger than an adult. [Corner one or go near its nest and they will attack of course]
Salties on the other hand, when they're smaller than a man they'll grab several of their mates and work as a team to hunt down a man. Really scary animals.
Had a wolf spider chilling next to me wrapping Xmas presents yesterday haha pretty chill with spiders when you're an Aussie
In 2011 a bull shark was seen swimming up the main street of Ipswich (near Brisbane) during a flood, which chased the local butcher (Steven Bateman) into his shop. After an hour he came out to wade to his car and was confronted by an Easter Brown snake swimming toward him, followed by a number of plate-sized Huntsman spiders. A mate of mine (Jack Sloss) competed in a contest out West at croc-infested 'Martin's Waterhole' with 16 blokes. The first test was a race around it, second test was a swimming race THROUGH it. ('They pretty harmless.' Jack told me. 'Its the salties you have to watch.' ) My old grandma-neighbour leaned over the fence one day and said; 'If you go out to the front garden you'll see a carpet snake (python) sunning itself. It lives in my back garden usually.They do bite ... but they're not poisonous.' Brisbane.
Western Australia doesn't have the Funnel Web Spider or the Cassowary.
Funnel Web is Sydney NSW.
Cassowaries are found in Far North Queensland and New Guinea.
We're pretty much alright over here. Just gotta dodge the emus and roos on those long drives.
Funnel Web can be found in Victoria , Queensland and there is a species in Tassie and South Australia too
Shark attack 3 days ago its been about 1 a month
I raised orphaned Dingo pups for 40 years. Amazing animals. They are a direct cousin to your Carolina Dog.
I was travelling around Australia in my early 20s (born and raised here)... I was in the top end NT and decided to go swimming in the local hot spring, there were signs everywhere stating that fresh water crocs regularly swim through there, well that didnt phase anyone, we'd just move to the side, let him pass and then continue swimming... but while I was there having a few drinks with mates, a salty came through, and no one realised it was one until it got closer to the clearer parts (after it passed us)... there was also a sink hole further down, and everyone jumped into the water from a cliff there, and I nearly jumped straight onto a freshies head...
kelpies are a breed of dog that was created in Oz and has dingo DNA
A University of Sydney study a few years ago analysed kelpie DNA and found no traces of dingo DNA. The allegation that dingos were bred with kelpies over a hundred years ago was from a book written by a shearer, but there’s no genetic evidence of this ever happening.
The other thing to remember is that it’s all about location!!!
Crocs like it warm so they only really show up in the wild from about half way up Queensland, and get more common the further north you go.
Sharks can be anywhere but they mostly show up on the west coast and where the surfers are, so if you’re swimming between the flags near the shore then you’re very unlikely to see one.
Jellyfish are also usually in the north but we’ve got stinger suits and nets now so they’re rarely an issue these days.
As for the snakes, spiders, lizards and other creepy crawlies, they’re mostly all inland in the bush, which is easy enough to avoid!
Just use your common sense! You leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone ❤️
It’s as simple as ‘don’t poke the bear.’ (A commonly used phrase despite the fact that we have no bears whatsoever 😜😂)
We actually have what’s called the royal flying doctor service. They have small planes so they can reach the more rural towns when emergencies happen. Essentially a flying ambulance. We only use helicopters to transport those closer to cities.
Here in Australia we grow up knowing what to stay away from. I think i was 15 when our school took us on an aboriginal camp where we learned to kill snakes, kangaroos and small game but also what to stay away from and how to spot certain things like plants but also make use of everything so we learned to cook and to this day like 18 years later i still know which spiders i can pick up and play with and which ones i cant. We pass down what we know and hope the next generation can keep that tradition going.
Wildlife related deaths in Australia: less than 250 in a 10 year period, caused mostly by Horses, Dogs and Cows. Horses showing to be the overwhelming winner for deaths caused.
With a taipan bite you have about 20-,40 minutes to get to a hospital.
I walked into my sisters room last night and saw a mid sized huntsman spider sitting on some sheets and said hello, and told her, and my sister said “oh it’s all good.”
Huntsman spiders are amazing for keeping other bugs at bay during spring g and summer.
I've seen blue ringed octopi in the wild. They're surprisingly small and very, very cute looking. The rings only light up if they're agitated or feel threatened.
Don’t know the figures, but fatalities from road accidents caused by kangaroos, I’m sure would be more than sharks, spiders or snake bites every year.
Note you cant legally have dingoes as "pets". You can only have them if have a particular permit. Or if you run a sanctuary zoo wildlife park etc. Same with every native animal. And isolated is a state of mind. Aussies travel everywhere all the time
Dingos can be legally owned without a licence and the permits/licence for most animals isn't hard to get either way.
@@sean2407Getting the permits might be easy but technically, in NSW you can only have a part or full dingo if theyve been bred in captivity. You cant remove one from the wild to keep as a pet. In Queensland theyre classed as an invasive species under the Biosecurity Act so you cant "move feed keep give away sell or release" them. If theyre being kept as pets against local legislation thats on those owners.
@@kerrydoutch5104 You can't go catch fish and take them home for pets either or lizards, birds, rocks, dirt and plants. That's not because dingos are heavily restricted or hard to get. You may aswell have said "note: theft is bad"
@@sean2407 ok
Let's see more bro, love watching the difference and reactions as an Aussie! Keep up the good work mate!
We only had warnings about tourists picking up blue ring octopus last week on the news here in West Aus.
I've been bitten by a snake before, the venom was nothing, it was the infection that left me in pain for about a month.
As is often the case. Bacteria from a snakes mouth is nasty.
What species of snake was it?
@@paulgrey8028 it was a black snake, hidden among the leaves in my backyard, I must have stepped on it, or too close to it, it got me on the ankle.
@@kari2570 adult snakes are able to control how much venom they inject.
Black snakes are deadly so it sounds like the snake held back from envenomating you.
That's what's called a 'bugger off' bite. It would not surprise me if it was a red-belly black snake that are not aggressive unless cornered or attacked.
In Australia we have giant Orb weaver spiders hanging out the front of our house, whereas in the UK you're lucky if you see a house spider, mainly just harmless Garden Spiders, big downside of living in Australia for sure.
Yeah but the giant creepy buggers are harmless. I do me best to let them be
hahah thats very true and i never hurt them. But I have ridiculous arachnophobia
also I am terrified of crickets. @@benolsthoorn5898
I have a wolf spider sitting above my beer fridge, we have an agreement, she watches my beers and I leave her alone…. No one else wants to go to my fridge lol
You have far more deadly animals in the USA than there are in Australia, if you go for a walk in the Australian bush you won't encounter any bears, cougars or wolves, if you have a swim in Australian creeks you won't be bitten by a water moccasin or a snapping turtle, you might meet the occasional snake but the USA has its fair share of rattlesnakes and other venomous varieties.
Of course if anybody is stupid enough to swim in creeks and rivers in the far north of Australia they can expect to be eaten by crocs, you also have alligators in the wetlands of southern USA.
The most dangerous animal you'll meet in the USA is the human animal, most of them carry guns and they'll use them without provocation.
Salties dont evolve to deal with shit. The rest of the universe evolves to survive salties.
I live in east Arnhem Land in the NT. We do not swim in the sea due to box jelly fish, crocs and sharks. They don’t worry me but when you come across a NT tarantula, that’s a different story, they are the size of a bush rat! I believe they are not venomous, they can give you a nasty bite if you annoy them. They are about 6cm in body and longer legs. Shared the crap out of me!
I live in a semi rural country town surrounded by bushland and 20 minutes from many beaches. We get it all here. As long as you follow simple rules of checking under bedsheets each night, tapping shoes for spiders before putting them on (we get a lot of funnel web spiders here and brown snakes) and not leaving towels, clothes on floor and never pick anything up in the yard without checking first then you’ll be fine. Our local beach here is also the second biggest shark nesting sites too but we still swim.
Irukandji jellyfish were the ones i was iffy about i think they are related to the box jellyfish but are only about the size of your pinky finger nail 1cm³ and they cause irukandji syndrome, which can be fatal and difficult to immediately recognize due to the delayed effects of the venom.
I'm going to guess kangaroos are actually responsible for the most deaths because of all the car accidents they cause.
Kangaroos get hit by cars all the time and people have been killed and injured. But its not common. The car and the roo are usually toast. More people are killed here by cattle and horses than from our wildlife. Except from drop bears. And hoop snakes. Theyre lethal
@@kerrydoutch5104every time I go into a bush im constantly turning my head out of caution for drop bears
@@Mr_ducky_378 you wont see them coming .... just be careful stay out from under trees and smear vegemite behind your ears. They dont like that. Oh and apparently theyre mostly ok if they hear ozzie accents but not foreign accents.
Actually it's by horses, then cows, then dogs.
When are boys going to come over I recon you would love it and probably won’t want to leave
Obviously the list isnt everything but as a kid in Australia I was aware of some others too, such as the stonefish, blue bottles, lion fish, death adder snake, red belly black snake, copperhead snake, tiger snaker, ticks, redback spider, and some ants and even centipedes! But its safe here I swear 😂
Great Video guys. When I was 14 we went around Australia as a family- my dad gave us a note to take 3 months off school and it was awesome. We stayed at a place called Geikie Gorge in Western Australia. The three of us teenage boys would sleep outside on camp stretchers. When we woke up in the morning there were crocodile footprints all through the camp and some of them were fairly big.
We stopped at a place called Wyndham where they held the largest crocodile in captivity- a Saltwater crocodile that was 27 feet long!
i moved to western australia from overseas 12 years ago. never seen those spiders. infact apart from the odd snake out in the country roads, ive never seen any of those creatures
Yes it’s over exaggerated. Yes they are here, but they aren’t roaming the streets ready to attack us lol. I’ve been bitten by one spider, ouch, a white tail, but didn’t kill me.
Redbacks are everywhere.
We had three one day on the passage wall.
I've found them in a filing cabinet, a dresser drawer, hiding in the rung of a ladder. Nests along the sunroom wall and others in the cracks of bricks.
When we first came to Australia in 1968 my brother had one crawl under the car he was fixing and we found others in the outdoor toilet ( the dunny).
My husband was hospitalised aged 11 when he was bitten by a redback on a scout outing; he woke up unable to move the next morning and spent several days in hospital.
Redbacks are easy to deal with; wack them with your shoe or a nearby book.
Huntsmen spiders are daily visitors but harmless.
I've seen Cassowaries in Far North Queensland around Cairns, none of them full grown and we didn't approach them so as not to stress the animal.
Also in Cairns we had encounters with 10 snakes in six weeks.
One death adder lying sunning on the road ( my daughter nearly stepped on it)
One taipan that tried to get into the house via the front door.
We also had a smaller snake which followed my husband into the house, and he kicked it back outside.
One tree python which came out of a pile of shoes and climbed the screen door of a house my husband was dropping our daughter at for a birthday party ( lots of screaming) ... and the others we couldn't identify.
And we in Australia, don't need to worry about school shootings..
I know a guy who was working in the outback near Woomera replacing telegraph poles.
He was with a crew on a truck loaded with new poles,he went to pull a pole off the back and there was a king brown in the poles that bit him,they were 200 km from the closest medical care,but fortunately,they had all been drinking beer,and were quite pissed , he started vomiting red fluid ,not blood,turned out to be the poison from the king brown reacting with the alcohol in his blood,and that’s what saved him
The shark attack he talked about in the river was 2 mins from where I live, a teenage girl jumped in the water cause she seen a pod of dolphins and wanted to swim with them! Not long before that another guy was attacked not far from where she died and the bull shark hit this guy with such force it broke his hip, he survived.
When are you getting your arse down here anyways??
Hopefullyya couple years . He has college still. And been going UK Europe first
LOL. you kids are like 2 stoner's. enjoying life ..yous gave me a good laugh ..
Stoners had a different meaning in the US.
@@marydavis5234 what does it mean then
This is why we admired Stevie Irwin because he was brave enough to jump on a full grown croc alone.
Also by the time you viewed this video there has been 2 more fatal shark attacks on our shores. Sam's was the worst though as it was caught on camera..
I’ve had a few male Sydney funnel web spiders walk through my garage while I was in there. They go walk about looking for females. Put a container just in front of them and they walk straight in. Then just put out in the garden 😊
my 8 yr old dumbass chased a massive goanna while a national park
dunno where you at homie, I'm from north qld australia. i walk through the bush at night time with 0 worries. fuck bears and all that bullshit
Australia's response to remote emergencies is the Flying Doctor Service. Remote places all over the country have landing strips to allow the Flying Doctors to land small planes like ambulances.
Love the content mate, your friend is also a good addition to your channel.
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Most of the shark fatalities are surfers when they are sitting waiting for a wave .Where I live is a large saltwater lake and the local council has been stuffing around with the shoreline so now it's becoming a perfect area for Blue ring octopuses. Another good reaction men.
The most deadly animal in australia - the horse. More people die from being thrown from horses than all of the animals in this video combined, then multiplied several times.
I have a nice huntsman spider in my home. A permanently lit led strip attracts other insects and the huntsman hangs around it and eats well lol
I've been stung by a Box Jellyfish if you get enough vinegar or salt water you can survive
It's interesting to note that the inland taipan was really only discovered in 1972, a fact put down to its isolated habitat, and how deadly its is. Another intriguing point to note is that while our snakes remain the most poisonous, and just as as likely to bite, our level of health care, world leading anti-venom, and the fact that we are well versed in how to respond to a snake encounter and snake first aid, has meant that our snakes are no longer the deadliest in the world, simply we generally know how to survive them. Even more interestingly (although not really surprising) is that Indigenous Australians also excelled in snake first aid: where I live they would bury the body of the person bitten in sand, which kept them still and provided pressure to the bite. in the Northern Territory they would drop to the ground and not move for three days. Both of which reduce lymphatic flow and thus the spread of the venom, dramatically increasing a persons chance of survival.
To keep going with a Aussie animal facts, a croc handler once informed me that it was fairly safe to handle a 6 month old alligater, but a 6 week old croc is likely to take your finger off.
really enjoying your thoughts and comments guys. I live in the blue mountains national park just west of sydney so we are constantly engaging in possible health risky wildlife interactions... come over and embrace the fear ! Its totally worth it.
We're from Melbourne, but once, staying in Sydney, our boys were playing basketball with the boys next door. The ball knocked a downpipe and out popped a funnelweb ! They used up practically a whole can of bug spray on it, but it was still walking around. So then they lit it on fire and it was this little flaming blob walking ..... until it finally dropped!
Dingoes are beautiful intelligent animals. Some people keep them as pets, but they need special fencing. An 8 foot fence does not keep them in and they will go 30kms to get their prey and be back before you know they are gone. When I was younger, my girlfriends and I got a shepard/labrador/dingo from the pound to take travelling with us. We had him 6 weeks before we heard him bark, but he was more likely to howl....the house we lived in was haunted. He was so smart and we could trust him not to take food out of a babies hand. He was excellent. We would sneak him onto the trains in Sydney and he was so good!
They are good pets but the wild ones will size you up. I had one in my tent at Uluru a couple of years before Azaria Chamberlain was taken. I was with two friends we were 13 years old and the dog was thinking of having a go. It was pitch black and it frighten us but I knew I had to take charge and act bigger and braver than I felt. I'm not scared of dogs and always thought they were placid but it was hungry and really considered attacking. If I was alone it may have tried. That poor mother endured the wrath of the nation. I knew she was telling the truth but at the time everyione believed they were harmless. They now know dens surround the rock.
I see the occasional huntsman, a lot of wolf spiders and redbacks around my house though. Most beaches have jellyfish but they kinda come and go through the seasons. Only seen a couple of blue ring octopus in my life, they are absolutly gorgeous but definatly dont touch them. There are a lot more aggresive things here than mentioned in that video though. Im enjoying your videos reacting to aussie stuff. Keep it up bois.
My mate spent a month in intensive care after an irukanji sting, 6 months on morphine and he was never the same as his central nervous system was compromised due to the toxin. They are incredibly dangerous and deadly.
i must say guys, please don`t be too afraid of our wild life, most you never see and if you do "don`t touch". Not that their dangerous ,some are, butt just leave them alone. Most people do not come across the most lethal or deadly in every day life here, butt out of the cities, in the country or the outback they will. let them do what they do and they will let you do what you. Don`t Fuck with them , they will not bother you. Australia down under. love your stuff keep it up .
People do have Dingoes as pets... The reviewed video signficantly lacks any historical data. I can count on one hand the amount of "oh fuck no" snakes/spiders I've seen in my life since being born barely after 1981 and living here. Bull Sharks are the more cheeky bastards here even though Whites have the better K:D. Bull Sharks can go in salt/fresh water, so whilst not chalking up the fatalities they can still significantly maim in various water bodies of folks tryint to escape the heat - but still rare. Box Jellyfish are also called Irukandji in their native name - they're not fun but they're in certain locations which are also typically signed at the beach themself so farely easy to avoid too.
They may have them but they're not supposed to.
The council rangers years ago used to destroy the animal if you were caught.
I went to a barbecue in Freo as a teenager in 1979, and the hosts owned a dingo; he was very quiet and stand-offish; otherwise he seemed like a domestic dog to me.
I occasionally see dingo crosses advertised online on 'gumtree'.
In Australia there are 2 or 3 snake bite fatalities each year. Bites most often happen when people try to pick them up or kill them. All a snake wants to do is get away from you. I live in prime eastern brown habitat and I’ve only seen one once, and that was its back half as it was rushing to get out of my way. And as for the inland taipan, yes the venom is crazily toxic, but there is no record of anyone being killed by one. I’d be much more worried if I lived in a place where I might meet a mountain lion or bear.
Gargle salt water for your cough and santize surfaces especially keyboards
One thing they didn't mention is the Irukandji - it is an extremely venomous jellyfish around 1cm long (yes a little over 1/4 inch) and it can be fatal - apparently, we recently found out that they actively hunt prey too. They are usually in the warmer waters, but have been slowly moving south and have now been found around Fraser Island off the Queensland coast.
I was waiting for someone to iri is same as box jellyfish...... 2 diff things. But similar
@@swiimports5210 yes very different - a box jellyfish is quite large (up to 30cm across and with 3m long tentacles) whereas an irukandji is about 1cm across.
People get so scared to come to Aus but realistically you almost never see any of these animals unless you live in the Northern Territory or further inland
I've seen a perentie charge a bus! He was chasing the shade under the bus so not uber aggressive but still funny to see!
Box jelly fish are no joke. It's not common for fatalities because people know not to be in those waters. They have been known to end people's live in less than 30 seconds.
Salt water crocs are dinosaurs and get bigger and more aggressive than any alligator.
Brisbane to Perth is like Baltimore to LA, except about 3 hours after driving out of Baltimore, you're in Nevada, and you stay in Nevada until you reach Sacramento. Then it's southern california for the last 3 hours.
Fun fact: trapdoor spiders or funnel web spiders (forgot which one) can swim, make sure to check pools if your in an area with lots of ‘em.
I think the narrator underplayed the fact that the deadly ‘brown snakes’ are found not only in bushland and parks but also in gardens in the suburbs as well. It’s scary if you come across them unexpectedly, they’ll more than likely just slither off unless you accidentally stand on them then they’ll definitely bite to protect themselves.