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Snake eats crocodile after battle. This is not encouraging me ever to visit Australia.

In other news, my giant project has temporarily lifted allowing me to deal with the giant backlog of stuff left in its wake, the days really are getting significantly longer (especially when not cloudy), which is lovely, and I have bought a pair of red shoes. As this is the time of year when I am utterly bored of my work wardrobe, this is excellent, as it allows me to do something new without significant effort.

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Date: 2014-03-03 10:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] antisoppist
I dunno, at least the snakes and crocodiles are too busy attacking each other to bother attacking anyone else.

Red shoes are good. Unless you are in Hans Christian Andersen.

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Date: 2014-03-04 12:56 am (UTC)
quillori: illustration of an ichthyosaurus (primeval: ichthyosaurus)
From: [personal profile] quillori
Of course, a while back we had Crocodile eats shark - now all we need is 'shark eats snake' and we'll have a nice game of rock paper scissors going on. But seriously, Australia is absolutely marvellous, and has several non-deadly native creatures! Just avoid salt water, fresh water, anywhere there could be snakes and anywhere there could be spiders, and you'll be just fine! (Except for being injured by kangaroos, koalas, magpies, goannas, Australian drivers...)

The red shoes sound lovely.

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Date: 2014-03-04 09:50 am (UTC)
clanwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] clanwilliam
Apparently Australian possums buck the trend and are harmless, but US ones are vicious little buggers.

That snake has probably been killed by a spider now.

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Date: 2014-03-04 06:14 am (UTC)
sgac: heart made from crumpled paper (Default)
From: [personal profile] sgac
The latest thing in my neck of the bush is snake repeller devices. They're little mushroom-shaped things that you stick in the ground in your garden and they beep. Beeep beeep beeep every thirty seconds. It's the new soundtrack to summer.

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Date: 2014-03-04 09:07 am (UTC)
sgac: heart made from crumpled paper (Default)
From: [personal profile] sgac
How do you tell? Only by negative data. We've not seen one yet, but for every snake you see, there's more you don't see.

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Date: 2014-03-03 10:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com
I was going to say "I have visited Australia and it was fine so far as wildlife goes", but just remembered the daughter of family friends whom we stayed with, who had been bitten by a redback spider. (She was fine; apparently it had probably bitten something else not long before, so didn't have a full load of venom. That's not something I ever want to have to worry about.)

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Date: 2014-03-04 08:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
And you're not even safe inside your house/hotel room! Though according to Wikipedia, the replacement of outhouses by plumbed indoor toilets has reduced the incidence of bites to the genitals....

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Date: 2014-03-05 12:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bsg-aussiegirl.livejournal.com
Funnelwebs are a much worse prospect than a redback.

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Date: 2014-03-05 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Neither sounds good to me!

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Date: 2014-03-03 11:49 pm (UTC)
ext_422737: uncle hallway (Hallway)
From: [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
The site I use for my morning weather report always plasters stories like that across the top. I've learned to scroll down to the temperature without looking. I don't want to know.

On the other hand, red shoes make everything better :)

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Date: 2014-03-04 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
I find that sort of thing quite interesting - just as long as its happening no-where near me. Sometimes it is good to live in a country with relatively harmless wildlife and landscape features.

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Date: 2014-03-04 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com
Eek! I read an interview with Cate Blanchett the other day in which she said she was scared of spiders and anyone who wasn't scared of spiders didn't live in Australia. But the thought of being slowly wrestled to death by a snake in water over the course of five hours is even scarier.

The longer days are such a boost to the spirits. I can quite see why a pair of new red shoes was just the thing.

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Date: 2014-03-04 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
I suspect that if it were me vs. the snake, it would be over in a lot less than five hours. Not that this is much comfort.

I am wearing my new red shoes today! It is sunny as well, so I hope the combination will be inspiring.

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Date: 2014-03-04 08:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sonetka.livejournal.com
I have to admire the sang-froid of the people who stuck around taking photos instead of immediately fleeing the scene before catching either animal's eye. (Incidentally, I trust you've heard this relevant song on the subject? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I)

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Date: 2014-03-04 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
One can only hope they had telephoto lenses.

I was not aware of that song, thank you!

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Date: 2014-03-05 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-t-rain.livejournal.com
Come on, Australia is awesome! And most of the things that can kill you are more scared of you than you are of them.

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Date: 2014-03-05 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
This is not helpful if their response to being scared of me is to bite/sting/otherwise poison!

Though my main reason for never having been to Australia nor likely to go in the immediate future is that it is a very long way away.

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Date: 2014-03-05 12:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bsg-aussiegirl.livejournal.com
LOL I love that that clip has gone viral! Of course, it must be a fresh water croc. Nothing takes on a saltie and survives, I'd say.

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Date: 2014-03-05 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
They are pictures that deserve to be known!

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