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To: kenth
"Most places man is top of the food chain. In the ocean, he drops a few notches. In Australia, he’s lucky to make the top 100."

Isn't that the truth. Between the Great Whites, the salt-water crocs, the funnel web spiders, the box jelly fish, the banded sea snake and the blue ring octopi, man barely makes it in the top ten, and that's before he gets past the beach.

5 posted on 06/23/2010 9:42:32 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

I’m from Australia.

Nothing scares me worse than the Brown Recluse Spider that crawls all over the southern United States.

There’s also a version of it which is even more vicious - necrotic wounds are caused by its bites, and can frequently cause flesh wounds the size of tennis balls. The spider is tiny and very non-threatening in appearance, and this makes it much more dangerous.


7 posted on 06/23/2010 9:52:45 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: OldDeckHand

You forgot the tai-pan and brown snake.


11 posted on 06/23/2010 10:04:50 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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