Australia does fierce creatures, again

Sure, pygmy possums look cute. But I'm locking my door at night if I know they're around.

Ozzie fauna: assume it wants to kill you, and you help your chances of surviving your visit.
"Simon," Suzie said, "that cute little thing is smaller than your thumb, what's to be afraid of?"

"The little buggers probably breed like penguins. They'll smother me, their tiny little claws all over my skin!"
 
"Simon," Suzie said, "that cute little thing is smaller than your thumb, what's to be afraid of?"

"The little buggers probably breed like penguins. They'll smother me, their tiny little claws all over my skin!"

It's the little evils that we often overlook, and that we should be mindful of.


Someday I'll visit Australia. But I'll be prepared, and constantly on the lookout.
 
Sure, pygmy possums look cute. But I'm locking my door at night if I know they're around.

Ozzie fauna: assume it wants to kill you, and you help your chances of surviving your visit.

They're like Chloe - they look cute and innocent, but will rip out your jugular if you look sideways at them.
 
We do spiders too. In fact, I recall reading something about a spider servicing the guests of some fantastic hotel…EB, do you know anything about it? ;)
 
They're like Chloe - they look cute and innocent, but will rip out your jugular if you look sideways at them.

Chloe?

I always figured she’d be more likely to blow your head off. She appears to belong to the lots and lots of great big guns school of thought.

That, or run you down with a great big truck.

Though ‘looks cute and innocent’ sounds spot-on. Like a blue-ringed octopus.

On the other hand, I’m still trying to figure out how a continent full of lethally venomous critters like Australia has trouble coping with invasive rabbits. I mean, come on - you’d think rabid wolverines would be overmatched by the native fauna.
 
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On the other hand, I’m still trying to figure out how a continent full of lethally venomous critters like Australia has trouble coping with invasive rabbits. I mean, come on - you’d think rabid wolverines would be overmatched by the native fauna.

Some idiot political type put up a fence to protect the rabbits from the rest of the country where the majority of the lethally venomous critters live.

Anyway, real bunnies, like plot bunnies, reproduce at an astonishing rate.
 
Some idiot political type put up a fence to protect the rabbits from the rest of the country where the majority of the lethally venomous critters live.

Anyway, real bunnies, like plot bunnies, reproduce at an astonishing rate.

And the rabbit-proof fence wasn't.
 
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