Yup, I"m just watching a video about a kid in the US who knocked on the wrong door & an 84 year old man shot him multiple times, including in the head because he knocked on his door & was black! I kinda hope that honour role kid & his doctor aunt who's looking after him move to Australia to escape the violence & PTSD he'll no doubt suffer after that. Imagine being shot in the head cause you confused which house you were meant to go to & knocked on the wrong one!
As an Aussie, I find it hilarious. We don't have bears, wolves, lions, tigers, etc. True, crocks will eat you, but you've just gotta stay out of their home. And they're only up north. Nobody same lives there.
I literally was giving a lecture about deadly Australian animals an hour or two before seeing this video, so a few clarifications - Cassowaries are only documented to have killed two people - one was in the US where the owner of a private zoo was attacked. There are apocryphal stories of hundreds of Japanese soldiers being killed in New Guinea by the birds (disemboweled by the claws) but no evidence to back this up. The bump on the head is called a crest, casque, crown or helmet. I was regularly visited by a family of cassowaries while staying in a cabin in far north Queensland. Anti-venom is free for people (well, paid for by our taxes), but you have to pay if it is for an animal. The cost per ampoule is $1000 or more - several may be needed. Vets have called the hospital where I work asking for expired anti-venom to save dogs on the cheap. There has been only one recorded death from a cone shell in Australia. Australia is generally pretty safe ... until it isn't!
Absolutely Mark. You just have to be careful. No different knowing where wolves, bears, coyotes, or bob-cats might be and taking the precautions you know you should. Always amazes me that countries that have animals that can and will tear you limb from limb are afraid of Australia.
The second death was when a bird was cornered by a couple of kids who were belting it with branches. Cassowary decided to fight back and one kid died. Can't say I'm sorry about that.
Respect the animals which inhabit the country, no matter where it is. Australia is no worse than anywhere else. I have met a few funnel webs in the swimming pool and garden. Seen a few things in rock tidal pools, you look, but commonsense tells you not to touch.
Except tiger snakes, those suckers are awesome swimmers and jus down right b@sterds and hunt you down. When I was a kid, my neighbor (brave kiwi friend) thought oh we're on the other side of the river and a long sweeping bend. Started throwing stones at one trying to drink, got it attention, I was already climbing the cliff as I knew what was coming, the tiger snake swam straight across at him. And they lie when they say Kiwis cannot fly ;)
@@Arko1112 my hubby lived north west Queensland where crocodile Dundee was filmed...they were out droving north to gulf probably 300 to 400 miles up and all sleep in sleeping bags and 1 had got into his mums bedding and bit her..no mobile fones or close to another property and til day she died she never forgot the horrorific pain she endured...about 1960...she knew most bush medicine but nothing to help that pain...funny you hear about lots of bites but not those centipedes..so glad you mentioned it...and know exactly how u felt
Venom deaths are super rare here, with a few common sense rules. The northern Australian beaches are closed that have the deadly jellyfish, lots of open free swimming pools in northern cities instead. Cassowaries only in far north. Deadly spiders are rare inside… this is why we cultivate huntsman spiders in houses, to keep the deadlies out. Stay out of long grass and wear hiking boots outside of cities and snakes aren’t a problem. Almost everything will leave you alone if you leave it. You’re never going to see most spiders let alone be bit. Bring a good flashlight per person while camping and all will be well. Don’t leave shoes outside. Cows and horse deaths are way more common than any of these. No spider deaths for over 20 years.
Koalas have chlamydia. They are dying from it in large numbers and probably wont last another 15 years in the wild. This number has been suggested due to the hundreds of thousands that also died in the bushfires a few years ago. But they were in serious trouble before that.
One of the few recognised colonies free from infection is at Wedderburn NSW just south of Campbelltown and the Army range. First time visiting there walked out the back door (all acreages) and did a double take on a koala just seating in the small tree in front of me.
Cassowaries are so unique! We actually love them. Deadly, but beautiful. They are actually necessary for the survival of the Daintree rainforest - they eat fruits whole and contribute to the distribution of plants through their poo! Unfortunately due to habitat destruction and being injured by cars on roads they are endangered. The reason they remind you of an emu is because they are both part of the ratite bird family - together with ostriches, rhea (from South America) and the kiwi and extinct Moa from New Zealand! :)
Don't be mistaken, going behind a tree wont make it lose interest, you're just putting something between yourself and the killer bird so it cant kill you till it gets bored
Yeah nah it might not kill you but you’ll be sliced up nicely and living with those sliced open nerve, muscle and tendon etc injuries for the rest of your life.
Sorry to disagree with the American voiceover but the Southern Cassowary is unfortunately now critically endangered with a population estimate of less than a thousand. They are essential to the healthy functioning of lowland tropical rainforest. Without their ability to disgest large rainforest fruits and spread their seeds over a hundred tree and shrub species would fail to exist(unable to germinate). The truth is that it's not the humans that are in danger from cassowaries it's the other way round. The major threat to their survival is clearing of habitat by humans for agriculture and housing and many are killed on the roads particularly in their last stronghold in the Daintree. Wild dogs and damage by feral pigs are also a major factor in their continued decline.When I used to visit Mission beach(northern Queensland)my mate and me would hand feed an adult male Cassowary fruit in his rainforest back yard. One day he brought his young along to visit. Sadly not long after he was killed by some large dogs trying to protect them. Without dad they didn't stand a change of surviving. If I never hear another bullshit story about how dangerous these beautiful birds are it will be too soon.
If you compared the scorecard of humans killed because of cassowaries v cassowaries killed because of humans, humans would definitely win on body count. No wonder the emus declared war on us.
Enjoying your work, thank you. Eeemyou. Not emoo. And no, don't touch a Funnel Web spider with a nail. Their fangs can penetrate a shoe or a toenail. The good news is, they've just found a new giant spider in Australia, and also another Taipan in Western Australia, the Western Desert Taipan, it is the new number 3 most venomous snake in the world, pushing the Coastal Taipan back to 4. The Queensland Bird Eating Spider also needs some recognition, Google it. And our version of the Black Widow is the Redback Spider, it is many, many times more venomous than the Black Widow. In fact there's pictures on Google of a Redback feasting on an Eastern Brown snake, the second most venomous snake on Earth. It's quite disturbing. Looking forward to your next outing.
Dangerous animals in Australia? We don't have bears mountain lions wolves coyotes bob cats trying to eat us or bison caribou moose and their mates trying to knock us off our feet everytime we go bush. Give me our non really killers anytime. Roos can get a bit grumpy though.
Don't forget they have deadly snakes, such as rattle snakes, mocassins, ticks that cause lime disease, alligators and they do have crocodiles I was reading about it the other day, rabies, killer bees, polar bears, recluse spider, black widow spider and people with guns!
I lived in FNQ (Far North Queensland) and the cassowary was the only thing that gave me cause to pause. They are intimidating. They need to ingest stones to digest their food. They are also found in Papua New Guinea.
King brown snakes are different. to an eastern brown snake, they are bigger. can grow over 3 meters. and also called a mulga maybe to tell the difference.
Most of the animals aren’t found all over Australia, but a-couple are, the cassowary is only found in Queensland while the Mulga snake is found (like the video said) in most parts of Australia.
When they wanted to add velociraptors into the original Jurassic Park movie, they used the cassowary as the basis for how they move and attack since scientist believe that cassowaries had a lot in common with velociraptors.
I always find it funny hearing people claim chickens are dinosaurs closest relatives. Chickens were the only birds compared to dinosaur DNA! Not exactly much doubt that if they compared Cassowary DNA it would be a closer match than chickens!
About 20 years ago my husband and I were having a picnic in the Daintree area and were so privileged to see a Cassowary in the wild. Despite the fact they are very territorial and dangerous we never felt threatened and just watched it from a distance. Amazing and beautiful animals but they are endangered, mainly due to being hit by cars. When changing our car tyre in the garage one night a funnel web casually ran past my husband - we had been having some torrential rain so had obviously been washed out and was seeking shelter indoors. Honestly it is nowhere near as dangerous here as everyone makes out as long as you use common sense - I am more scared by Sydney traffic.
@@jessovenden yup the only danger I’ve been in as a Aussie was walking past a chill cassowary darn bird was just takeing a walk around the farm we visited cause it was a nice one the other one was a mean one so people can to be extra careful around it’s pen
When living in Mission Beach, I came into regular contact with a male cassowary that lived on the property. He had been fed by irresponsible people, and had a habit of soliciting fruit by tapping with his beak on the window. I christened him, General Nuisance. Although well armed, they’re shy, and would rather melt into the rainforest than attack. Incidentally, the reason they look like dinosaurs, is because, (as the scientific community generally agrees), birds are the only surviving clade of dinosaurs. Cassowaries have vestigial claws on their tiny wings, and their skeleton, with killing claw, looks like a scaled down Jurassic Park raptor.
Mum lives at Wangaling Beach just down from Mission and also has her favourite that is a regular around the place. She gets up anyone trying to feed or interact with them.
@@zalired8925 Nuisance was round at Lugger Bay, right around the corner from Wongaling Beach. Unfortunately, he was already used to being fed. This is not at all to be encouraged, as it puts the endangered birds at risk by getting them too accustomed to human contact. He was doing well when last I saw him, with several chicks following him each year. I occasionally wonder if he’s still striding around the point, although this was some years ago.
@@fionapaterson-wiebe3108 I'll ask mum, she does volunteer caring and education at the tourist centre in Mission. Also does monitor and welfare volunteering and would probably be familiar with most breeding males with chicks. Unfortunately she was saying traffic has been taking a heavy toll now tourist traffic has increased. I remember coping a lectute and almost a backhander the first time I saw one with her and was about to throw it the rest of my banana. I learnt that lesson mighty fast.
If you live in Melbourne you don't have to worry about being killed by a jellyfish or mollusc - the undertow of Port Philip Bay can kill you anyway :D .
@@navs485 not creepy, probably works in the healthcare sector, as a former nurse i was thinking the same, its called caring about other people 🤷♀️ and Ryan, time to get that cough checked out 👍
Myself and two girlfriends were chased by a tiger snake once. It seriously wanted to “get” us. It followed as we ran, it was reared up and hissing loudly. When we got back to the Combi Van it was still after us, we didn’t have time to open the door so all of us jumped up onto the roof. It slithered round the van just looking for a way up. Eventually it gave up.
There are two strains of chlamydia observed in the koala population. The most common one, chlamydia pecorum is not transmissible to humans. However the second type, chlamydia pneumoniae is transmissible. This is why it is illegal to hold/cuddle a koala in all states except 3.
If the Funnel Web Spider is the deadliest spider in the world, then yes Ryan its more deadly than your Black Widow. Our Red Back spider is more deadly than the black widow.
A lot of koalas do carry chlamydia, but the chances of transmission are incredibly low. Even if you are lucky enough to see one in the wild (which is already a rarity) it's highly unlikely that you'll get close enough to risk transmission. It's also very common for zoos and wildlife parks to have some kind of 'cuddle a koala' experience, and they probably wouldn't risk it if there was a chance that the punters (and staff) could contract chlamydia from it. "Koalas can give you chlamydia" makes for a sensational headline (pun intended), but tbh you're pretty safe as long as you're sensible.
The most common strain of chlamydia by far in koalas is chlamydia pecorum which isn’t transmissible to humans. Only 3 states in Australia allow you to hold/cuddle a koala. It’s illegal everywhere else.
presumably the captive ones would be treated for it before being allowed to interact with humans in those experiences. The rest I agree with you on though
@@mehere8038 no- there is a reason why it is illegal to hold or cuddle a koala in most states ! A koala could be a carrier of the disease and show no symptoms. Further they can test negative in early stages of the disease or have sub clinical infection.
Koalas are the least of our worries here in Australia. We consider them 'friendly' altho they have sharp claws and teeth. People have rescued koalas without being injured in the process.
The black Widow of USA has its Astralian cousin the Red Back spider, which looks and is same size. But has a red to brown strip on its back, but same red patch on belly. But no one has died of Red Back bite for very long time but Funnel Wrb spider remains a killer but is only an issue in Sydney.
I grew up around redbacks. The stripes can be red, brown, orange, beige, white or even black. Spotting a black one was when I noticed that the hairs in the stripe point toward the spider's head, while the rest on the sides point backwards.
As an Australian, I just want to thank you for teaching me how to improve the video quality on TH-cam. Fun anecdote - my cousin came home to find a King Brown snake in her garage. She killed it with a shovel.
When he says get behind a tree it's not because they're dumb, just use the tree as a shield because they aren't very agile sideways and eventually they will give up
I grew up in suburban Sydney, most days in summer we had to deal with Funnel Webs, 60 yrs later I still shake out my shoes before putting them on, every single time. I turn them up and bang the souls until I’m sure they are empty. They still freak me out.
It's more common to die from a COW than any other animal in Australia, but people are not scared of Cows so don't be sacred of cassowary or other crawlies
I think that once you take into account accidents in the racing industry horses are number one. Cattle are second. Dogs third (including 49% biting attacks, 41% people tripping over their dogs, and 9% car accidents.) Kangaroos fourth (all from running into a roo in a truck, car, or motorbike). Then snakes (mostly eastern brown snakes), bees, sharks, and then crocodiles. Then emus (five deaths in ten years, all by people running into them in vehicles). There is an average total of 32 animal-related deaths in Australia per year; a rate of 1.23 deaths per million population per year. In the USA the police kill 1100 people per year on average, a rate of 3.3 deaths per million population per year.
@@brettevill9055 I wonder what the ratio of animals to deaths looks like though. Cassowaries are near extinct, if they were as widespread as horses or cows, we'd probably see way more deaths from them than we currently do. Still not something we have to worry about dying from though, given how rare they are. That's really scary re police death numbers in the US! Pretty sure their animal death numbers are much higher than ours too, I know their dog bite deaths are WAY higher, their dog bite deaths alone are probably higher than our total animal deaths, due to the number of strays they have there & lots within species like pittbulls too & then there's rabies deaths they have to worry about as well!
Drama, drama, drama !! The jellyfish is something people are becoming more aware of and you often DO NOT have any sign of a sting, so that tiny thing is now being looked at for unexpected heart attacks in snorkelers in Northern Waters. The Cassowary is ONLY in the rain forests of North Queensland. Plus they are rare. Having hiked around Cape Tribulation 40 years ago I didn't even see one then ! "Wait-a-=whiles" yes [ a nasty thorn bush where if you have to wait a while to get the thorns out because if you push forward the barb will make it stay in until removed possibly by a doctor], but no giant dinosaur birdies.
I've seen a Cassowary attack. It was on a zookeeper in Sydney. It was a good 6' and ran him down then clawed him with its talons and opened up his stomach. He nearly died. Kangaroos can do this too, specially big males. They grab you with the claws on their arms, balance back on their big tail and gut you with the 4" claws on their hind feet. It happens more often than its reported. I myself was bitten by a Funnel Web spider in my backyard in Sydney. I was mowing the lawn and it was flicked up onto my leg and dropped down into my rubber boot. It bit me twice before I could get the boot off. The pain was excruciating. I got to hospital in about 30 minutes and was given anti-venom but I had to be put into an induced coma. I survived but I was in hospital for two weeks. BTW, hospital care is free down here, but not if you are a tourist. Make sure you have good travel insurance.
Cassowaries are recorded to have killed two people, total, in a couple of hundred years (plus an unknown number before records were kept, of course).. Both were trying to beat the birds to death, but fell over.
As an Australian, I don't know if anyone has told you this, but it's not pronounced "ee-moo" it's ee-myu" Not sure why most people outside of Australia are unaware of this, but yeah XD
As an aussie who watched octonauts growing up, i knew about the cone shell and many other Sea creatures. In the cone shell episode a lot of the crew had to go to the sickbay but because it's a kids show, no one came super close to death
We had a king brown snake in our letterbox once when I was a kid. Gave my mum the fright of her life. Needless to say we decided to collect our mail another day.
That first animal is a cassowary, it has a rock hard growth on its head, it is strong enough to break bones, and kill. Edit: the video said that each cone snails venom had enough to kill 700 people at a time
There hasn't been a death from a Cassowary attack in Australia since 1926. When two boys were attacking a fully grown male adult bird and its babies with branches. I'm sick of these bs stories about how dangerous they are.
@@garryellis3085 I think it's more about the potential to be dangerous and Australia has A LOT of animals with the potential to be very lethal. I think though that people from each country/continent have THEIR particular animals that are potentially very dangerous but because they get taught about them and are used to them they don't feel AS dangerous while everyone else's deadly creatures still do.
Advice from an Australian to survive Australian wildlife. 1. If you see something deadly, just stay away 2. Leave the creatures be and they will leave you be 3. Don’t be an idiot around animals In conclusion, if you are scared of our wildlife, stay away from it and/or be respectful
Just stay here....In the 40+ years living on The Sunny Coast I have never had to worry about someone shooting me! I HAVE been stung by jellyfish though..hurts like hell.
@@suzyfarnham3165 you're right Suzy :) I'm not going anywhere. Just thought it was a bit of fun as Ryan wants to come here. Sorry about your jellyfish attack, I knew someone once who suffered so my heart goes out to you for the pain. ♡♡♡ I came home the other night around 9. Girlfriend's birthday dinner and her and her boyfriend had picked me up and dropped me off. I left the inside light on and as I walked into the kitchen, there under the chair was a 10" baby brown snake wiggling around. I took a video to capture my little visitor and thought, better ring the snake guy, cause they're as dangerous as adults because they can't control the amount of venom they inject yet. Oh darn, didn't have that sort of money, so on a hunch, don't really know my girlfriend's boyfriend really but he looked like the kind a guy that could take care of business so I called them and they were back in 2 minutes. Boyfriend grabbed a folded tea towel hanging on the cupboard door, threw it over the snake, it didn't like it much and wriggled free so he did it again and this time he got a good grasp and took the snake outside. And I thought to myself how lucky I was it was under the chair and not under my bed so when I put my feet down in the morning and possibly startled it, it could've given me a nasty bite. OMGOODNESS so so grateful to Girlfriend's boyfriend for taking care of business LOL :)
I'm from Australia. Yep, watch out for kangaroos, emus and cassowaries. They all have huge, tough toes (obviously on kangaroos it's their hind feet) on their feet that can easily disembowel you. If a kangaroo rocks back onto it's tail (for balance) it's huge rear foot toes can tear you apart.
I think funnel webs are mainly on the east coast. I live in Adelaide. Haven't seen one. We do have a deady very small one called a redback spider but I think it is survivable. Usually hides in garages and anything outside like under bike seats that sort of thing. I don't put on shoes that have been outside unless I have thoroughly checked inside them and I don't go into garden sheds without taking precautions.
Dee, the tiny Whitetail spider does a heap of damage, necrotising your flesh. The Red headed Mouse spider is extremely venomous, some have compared it to the Funnel Web, I've been bitten by a normal Mouse spider, it wasn't fun. The Queensland Bird Eating Spider will one day be responsible for a death or two.
There are two types of Funnel Web. The Sydney and the ones that live all through the Great Dividing Range. Contrary to a comment below, they are prolific in the New England area and live in temperatures of -14C. These Funnel Webs live mostly in tree hollows and behind bark. They will invade houses. In fact, friends of mine in Inverell lived in a caravan on their property, and every day found several inside. I read an article in the local Inverell paper that said the local Funnel Web was much larger than the Sydney and also much more venomous.
Nobody has died from a spider bite in many many years. We have the antivenins and we don’t charge for them. We actually have some cool spider venom research going on, they’re trying to use the venom properties to protect against muscle damage after a heart attack
The Blue Ringed Octopus freaks me out. I rested my hand on a rock right next to one once. If they do bite you, apparently you've got as little as a few minutes to live. That's not enough time to get off the beach.
The koala doesn't drop on people. They knicknamed drop bears because they climb down the gumtree trunk then jump (drop) off when they are near the ground.
At around 1:50, that looks like it might be a cone snail? Not sure though ^^; Funnelwebs technically have a couple of regional variants. The worse one is the Sydney Funnelweb. The King Brown is an interesting choice, for this, though, but it IS one of the worse brown snakes we got over in Aus... Ahh, gotta love the Emu's angy little cousin, the cassowary... Cassowaries are generally angy murderturkeys, lol. They will also deliberately kick as high on the body of their target as they can. Koalas can drop on you, and if they do, they're probably very drunk on slightly-fermented eucalyptus leaves and very grumpy ^^;
True. One fell on my sister's dog kennel and they had to replace the roof. It got away and back up a tree before the dogs could express their displeasure at it. I don't know what to do about koalas abusing eucalyptus juice. If they could only read, I could get stickers made for the trees like the "Think before you drink" ones - "Cogitate before you masticate".
um, Mulga isn't a brown snake, it's a black snake, the only snake in the black snake family to have ever caused a human death, it has a grand total of ONE death to it's name. All the brown snakes have WAY more than that!
Gday Ryan! I'm born and raised in Australia and I am 64 yrs old and I have never encountered any of these creatures. Maybe they're found in the eastern states but not here in South Australia mate
The drop bear is actually a thylacoleo which is a prehistoric marsupial that hunts from above. Yes, it's still around in pockets and although it's existence behind the scenes of social media people and animals have been attacked by it. We know it as the panther because that is what we have grown up seeing in zoos etc. but when you look them in a side by side comparison they look extremely similar. The artist drawings are far from reality because they don't listen to indigenous people they just guess. There's possibly several subspecies of them and before people say that it's impossible blah, blah, blah. Turn off the computer and go bush. If you can tell the difference between a marsupial paw print and a fox, dog or cat then you are half way there. People go missing in the bush, never to be found and we wonder why. Don't forget, these have lived here for a millennia and have been an apex predator. They attack from above and as kids we're always taught to look down and watch for snakes. We wonder why we don't spot them. Level 10 camouflage and when they are spotted nobody believes you. Win/win for the thylacoleo.
What to avoid/be scared of in Australia: Crocodiles, sharks, venomous spiders and snakes, stingrays, Irikunji, blue ring octopus, Cassowary bird, cone shells and stone fish.
Look at the pages of Aussie birds I sent you, Ryan - that big bird is on it. And all these "scare you silly" videos never tell you the biggest killer in Australia - it's the honey bees.
Had🎉lovely young man who worked wt me 30yrs ago..had young family and one Saturday afternoon he was bitten by one honey bee on his throat..though lived less than a klm from major hosp he died before help arrived...Such a tragic accident to awonderful man...
And you may not see the underwater Funnel Web, as the bubble of air from its hairs will refract light and partially obscure it. Bites are typically from males on the prowl during breeding season.
I was sleeping out many years ago and woke up looking in the face of a cassowary - never rolled over and stood up so quick. but it never made a move towards me
But you have rattle snakes, their just as deadly. Truth is everywhere has something to avoid. But black widow spiders are nothing compared to Australia's selection lol, watch part one, the blue ring octopus, stone fish are also deadly. Not to mention the salt water crocodiles.
I've seen an almost 3-metre (10-foot) King Brown when I worked in seismic oil search in the late 70s in Far West Queensland. And yes, it chased my mate who provoked it, and it chased him for a good 30 metres before he jumped onto the side of the work ute.
All these animals exist in Australia but most people never see any of them. There are different species of funnel web spiders found mainly in the mountain forests of eastern Australia but the one that everyone talks about is Atrax robustus, the Sydney Funnel Web. These are mainly found north of the harbour. I lived in Sydney for 30 years and never saw one outside the zoo. The last death from a funnel web bite was over forty years ago, there has been an anti-venom since 1981. Australia has lots of venomous snakes including eight of the top ten most venomous in the world but most people never see them. The deadliest snake in the world is the Saw-scaled viper which kills 50 people per million per year in India. All the Australian snakes together kill about two people per year and 95% of people bitten by snakes were trying to kill the snake at the time. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. The largest cone snail, the Leopard Cone can grow up to 23cm (9.1 inches) but most are much smaller than that. There is thought to be just one death from a cone snail sting on Hayman Island in 1935. If you do get stung, it will be painful but highly unlikely to be fatal. Irukandji and Box jellyfish are dangerous and can kill you. They are found off beaches in northern Australia mainly in the wet season (November to March). In the dry season, the prevailing southeast trade winds tend to blow them away from the coast. Most people in northern Australia don't swim in the ocean as, besides jellyfish, there are crocodiles. It is not an "eemoo" it is an "eemyu". Cassowaries are confined to the rainforests of far northeast Queensland and most people have never seen one. The most dangerous animal in Australia, the one that kills more people than any other, is the horse. People fall off them. But that happens in the USA too.
Fun fact. Worlds 2nd most dangerous bird is the ordinary farmyard chicken. WHY? Because just occasionally a chicken will accidentally peck somebody’s eye out. And because there’s BILLIONS of them.
As an aussie. I havé seen 1 red bellied black snake and 1 eastern brown snake in 35 years. Don’t worry we don’t have all those animals just roaming around everywhere lol. But they are pretty cool critters
Yeh Nah, don’t hug a cassowary or approach one. Some Emu can be just as viscous but you have a better chance with an eem you. If you see a Cassowary get inside your car. A Funnel Web’s fangs can bite through leather shoes and your toe nail. I grew up in the land of Funnel Webs. Don’t hug them either. I remember the last person who died before Eric Worrel had anti venom was a 4 year old boy. He put his jacket on the sand at the beach. When he put it back on the spider was in the sleeve. Eric had to milk 200 spiders to make the first venom. Are you watching part one? That video was truth but it is very rare to see most of these.
The Conus Marmoreus aka the Marbled Cone is my all time favourite shell. My family is very island orientated & every year we'd visit Masthead Island, a tiny deserted coral cay out on the Barrier Reef. One year we were fortunate enough to be one of the very few groups that got the opportunity to stay on Tryon island - which never opened to the public, was smaller than Masthead & oh so far off the mainland! - there were SO many cone shells washed up on the beach: thousands! NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING is more beautiful than those little deserted coral cays out there: TRUE PARADISE. The experience is like no other & the marine life is breathtaking ❤❤❤ I was a VERY lucky child.
Aussie here. Most of our dangerous animals are in the outback, and if you leave them alone they will leave you alone. I get several redback spiders at home, they are not aggressive unless you touch them. A friend of mine got bit on the butt because he got one in his jocks when they were on the washing line. It made him sick but that's all. I do a lot of gardening and often come across them under plants/weeds etc they have always ran away. If people respect our wildlife then there is only a remote chance of being attacked. It doesn't seek people out! In America you have more dangerous animals than we do imo. You have mountain lions, bears, wolves, coyote's, skunks, porcupines, raccoons all of which carry the rabies virus. We don't have any of that here, rabies was completely eradicated many decades ago. America also has 🐊 alligators, snakes, sharks. And all the dangerous, exotic animals that people keep as pets. Tigers, lions, bears chimpanzees etc, this is illegal in Australia. I think everyone gets my drift.
To put things into perspective and clear up some of the drama in this video; - No one has died from a Funnel Web Spider bite since 1981 when anti venom was developed, there are 13 deaths on record before then - Snakes kill roughly 2 people a year in Australia, Eastern Brown Snake is the most common by a lot - There is only one, suspected, Cone Snail death on record and it's from 1935 - Less than 1 person dies a year on average due to all Jellyfish stings, Box Jellyfish is the most common - Only one Cassowary death on record in Australia (there's a recent on on a farm in the US too) in 1926 For comparison, Horses and Cows kill more than 10 people a year in Australia so youre at way more risk on a farm than any area of the outback. Side note; we have healthcare so anti venom is free at any hospital
Cassowaries? No way! I lived in Cassowary country and have seen many, including dads with their chicks. So long as you don't appear as a threat, they'll completely ignore you. Emus are far more aggressive than Cassowaries.
😅😅😅😅...Koala's do have Clamidia....in the wild. The thing on the cassowary's head is like a giant tooth/ horn...that they fight with. Lots of these things are in tropical Australia...come to Perth...we have white pointer sharks ...but shark alarms at the beaches...but we do have the cutest Quokkas...on Beautiful Rottnest Island...google Quokka Selfies 😂 Iriganji. Jellyfish are a tropical Wet Season danger. I taught kindergarten in Broome and a student came to Kindy straight from swimming in the sea ....which I didn't know... within 10 minutes of all the kids arriving, she started screaming (4yrs)....I thought she might have been bitten by a spider...we searched her body trying to find a bite. Covered in special cream then I drove her to the hospital...met her grandma there...she said she had been swimming before...so they decided she had been stung by an Iriganji jellyfish...and it had taken 15 minutes for it to reach her nervous system. She was in anaphylactic shock and was treated with adrenaline immediately. She was such a tiny little girl and it was a horrible experience not knowing what the hell was going on😢...she was ok luckily x
Dozens of people every year find themselves up against an angry cassowary. Serious injuries are not common. It has been 97 years since the last recorded death by cassowary attack.
That cute little animal at the end was a koala - there’s NO SUCH thing as a, “drop bear”. Btw koalas are not bears, they are marsupials and their cuteness begins and ends with their appearance.
I’ll never forget going to Perth zoo, walking into the bird area and immediately having the Cassowary turn to give me a death stare then throw up a Banana before returning to death staring me. They are indeed horrifying
The cassowary can see you behind the tree, but you keep the tree between you so they can't kick you or if possible don't go near them in the first place
As an Australian I have to provide some constructive feedback on you pronunciation of emu, if I was a teacher I'd give you a D for barely pass for one good reason the first first part of the name e (ee) you pronounce perfectly the next letter m well thats fine but when it comes to u its very different the way people put it on the net is (ee-mew) but when you look at that some people think moo like as in a cow that's wrong its more like a kitten mew soo in conclusion this is how its pronounced in Australia (which is the origin) ee-mew (ee-myoo) (eem-yoo) (eem-you) there it is please let this be some information for you so that you don't make some of us proud aussies cringe whenever you pronounce it incorrectly and I hope you use this as a positive learning experience, I hope you have a great day/night and continue to make interesting reaction vids😁
Did they forget to mention funnel webs often don't let go requiring you to pull them off? Those people you see in hideous pain from the Irukandji have also been given the maximum amount of Morphine that can be safely administered and they are still completely suffering
Got them wrapped around my legs in FNQ and the pain was worse than childbirth. All I kept thinking was I was glad it wasn't my chest ..... So bloody painful.I honestly thought I would never be able to walk again! I got a smaller one on the Sunshine Coast once honestly only inches long and it still killed me!! I remember living in Darwin and NOBODY went near the ocean during certain months. I remember there was a bluff we stood on and the water was milky white with tens of thousands of these things! I have never seen anything lie it in my life? Enough to kill a small town!!
I'm tired of hearing how dangerous Australia is. At least we don't have gun totin' humans - way more dangerous
and unpredictable.
Yup, I"m just watching a video about a kid in the US who knocked on the wrong door & an 84 year old man shot him multiple times, including in the head because he knocked on his door & was black! I kinda hope that honour role kid & his doctor aunt who's looking after him move to Australia to escape the violence & PTSD he'll no doubt suffer after that. Imagine being shot in the head cause you confused which house you were meant to go to & knocked on the wrong one!
As an Aussie, I find it hilarious. We don't have bears, wolves, lions, tigers, etc.
True, crocks will eat you, but you've just gotta stay out of their home. And they're only up north. Nobody same lives there.
And we don’t get EF5 tornadoes that flatten entire towns and ruin peoples’ livelihoods with absolutely no way to stop it
They don't think beyond the screen... I grew up with devils running free in the bush, they freak out people
I literally was giving a lecture about deadly Australian animals an hour or two before seeing this video, so a few clarifications -
Cassowaries are only documented to have killed two people - one was in the US where the owner of a private zoo was attacked. There are apocryphal stories of hundreds of Japanese soldiers being killed in New Guinea by the birds (disemboweled by the claws) but no evidence to back this up. The bump on the head is called a crest, casque, crown or helmet. I was regularly visited by a family of cassowaries while staying in a cabin in far north Queensland.
Anti-venom is free for people (well, paid for by our taxes), but you have to pay if it is for an animal. The cost per ampoule is $1000 or more - several may be needed. Vets have called the hospital where I work asking for expired anti-venom to save dogs on the cheap.
There has been only one recorded death from a cone shell in Australia.
Australia is generally pretty safe ... until it isn't!
Absolutely Mark. You just have to be careful. No different knowing where wolves, bears, coyotes, or bob-cats might be and taking the precautions you know you should. Always amazes me that countries that have animals that can and will tear you limb from limb are afraid of Australia.
From what I understand pretty much all cassowary related deaths were Darwin Award nominees in the first place.
The second death was when a bird was cornered by a couple of kids who were belting it with branches. Cassowary decided to fight back and one kid died. Can't say I'm sorry about that.
Respect the animals which inhabit the country, no matter where it is.
Australia is no worse than anywhere else. I have met a few funnel webs in the swimming pool and garden.
Seen a few things in rock tidal pools, you look, but commonsense tells you not to touch.
lies we know you died last year and havent realised it yer
That's a cassowary, mate. The world's most dangerous bird. Will disembowel you then laugh in the face of your grieving Mum.
Sounds about right - second only to the deadly drop bear
@Alison Holland trying to be funny in this episode its really lame.
An emu can be as dangerous. I had a friend whose dog got ripped open (disemboweled) by and emu - he had to shoot it to put it out of its misery.
@@ianmontgomery7534 Cassowaries have more attitude….
@@zwieseler They are one step away from their ancestors, the dinosaurs.
We don't have emooos, we have Emus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
eeem-you
He knows.
Or E-mew
Forget the oo, just u, eem- u or eem-you
My hubby said the same..😂😂😂
As an Aussie I’m going to give you the best advice right now to survive all these animals okay
1. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone lol
Except tiger snakes, those suckers are awesome swimmers and jus down right b@sterds and hunt you down.
When I was a kid, my neighbor (brave kiwi friend) thought oh we're on the other side of the river and a long sweeping bend. Started throwing stones at one trying to drink, got it attention, I was already climbing the cliff as I knew what was coming, the tiger snake swam straight across at him. And they lie when they say Kiwis cannot fly ;)
not always... i was in bed and a giant centipede bit me/stung me. 1 to 2x the size of my hand. it was just chilling in my bed sheets
@@davidareeves all snakes are awesome swimmers dude.
@@kelliewhyte_85 Yeah I know. Why I was already climbing the cliff face while my friend learnt a lesson here :P
@@Arko1112 my hubby lived north west Queensland where crocodile Dundee was filmed...they were out droving north to gulf probably 300 to 400 miles up and all sleep in sleeping bags and 1 had got into his mums bedding and bit her..no mobile fones or close to another property and til day she died she never forgot the horrorific pain she endured...about 1960...she knew most bush medicine but nothing to help that pain...funny you hear about lots of bites but not those centipedes..so glad you mentioned it...and know exactly how u felt
Venom deaths are super rare here, with a few common sense rules. The northern Australian beaches are closed that have the deadly jellyfish, lots of open free swimming pools in northern cities instead. Cassowaries only in far north. Deadly spiders are rare inside… this is why we cultivate huntsman spiders in houses, to keep the deadlies out. Stay out of long grass and wear hiking boots outside of cities and snakes aren’t a problem. Almost everything will leave you alone if you leave it. You’re never going to see most spiders let alone be bit. Bring a good flashlight per person while camping and all will be well. Don’t leave shoes outside. Cows and horse deaths are way more common than any of these. No spider deaths for over 20 years.
No spider deaths for forty years
Got bitten by a redback. Didn’t do a thing to me. Obviously didn’t inject venom as I got a small red lump and nothing else.
Koalas have chlamydia. They are dying from it in large numbers and probably wont last another 15 years in the wild. This number has been suggested due to the hundreds of thousands that also died in the bushfires a few years ago. But they were in serious trouble before that.
Except it wasn't "hundreds of thousands" just hundreds
@@alanlivingston3727 my correction, it was approximately 41000 that died. My bad
One of the few recognised colonies free from infection is at Wedderburn NSW just south of Campbelltown and the Army range. First time visiting there walked out the back door (all acreages) and did a double take on a koala just seating in the small tree in front of me.
Cassowaries are so unique! We actually love them. Deadly, but beautiful. They are actually necessary for the survival of the Daintree rainforest - they eat fruits whole and contribute to the distribution of plants through their poo! Unfortunately due to habitat destruction and being injured by cars on roads they are endangered. The reason they remind you of an emu is because they are both part of the ratite bird family - together with ostriches, rhea (from South America) and the kiwi and extinct Moa from New Zealand! :)
Don't be mistaken, going behind a tree wont make it lose interest, you're just putting something between yourself and the killer bird so it cant kill you till it gets bored
Yeah nah it might not kill you but you’ll be sliced up nicely and living with those sliced open nerve, muscle and tendon etc injuries for the rest of your life.
They’re not aggressive. Retreating so that they don’t feel threatened is the best policy.
Sorry to disagree with the American voiceover but the Southern Cassowary is unfortunately now critically endangered with a population estimate of less than a thousand. They are essential to the healthy functioning of lowland tropical rainforest. Without their ability to disgest large rainforest fruits and spread their seeds over a hundred tree and shrub species would fail to exist(unable to germinate). The truth is that it's not the humans that are in danger from cassowaries it's the other way round. The major threat to their survival is clearing of habitat by humans for agriculture and housing and many are killed on the roads particularly in their last stronghold in the Daintree. Wild dogs and damage by feral pigs are also a major factor in their continued decline.When I used to visit Mission beach(northern Queensland)my mate and me would hand feed an adult male Cassowary fruit in his rainforest back yard. One day he brought his young along to visit. Sadly not long after he was killed by some large dogs trying to protect them. Without dad they didn't stand a change of surviving. If I never hear another bullshit story about how dangerous these beautiful birds are it will be too soon.
If you compared the scorecard of humans killed because of cassowaries v cassowaries killed because of humans, humans would definitely win on body count.
No wonder the emus declared war on us.
That's horrible!
Yes, Australia has a decent national health system. You will be given life-saving antivenine without anyone asking about your bank account.
Enjoying your work, thank you.
Eeemyou. Not emoo.
And no, don't touch a Funnel Web spider with a nail. Their fangs can penetrate a shoe or a toenail.
The good news is, they've just found a new giant spider in Australia, and also another Taipan in Western Australia, the Western Desert Taipan, it is the new number 3 most venomous snake in the world, pushing the Coastal Taipan back to 4.
The Queensland Bird Eating Spider also needs some recognition, Google it. And our version of the Black Widow is the Redback Spider, it is many, many times more venomous than the Black Widow. In fact there's pictures on Google of a Redback feasting on an Eastern Brown snake, the second most venomous snake on Earth. It's quite disturbing.
Looking forward to your next outing.
Just as an aside, the fangs on the Sydney Funnel Web are larger than many venomous snakes around the world.
Australia really likes it’s dangerous animals doesn’t it -_-
In Oz we tend to be more wary than afraid.
Dangerous animals in Australia? We don't have bears mountain lions wolves coyotes bob cats trying to eat us or bison caribou moose and their mates trying to knock us off our feet everytime we go bush. Give me our non really killers anytime. Roos can get a bit grumpy though.
Don't forget they have deadly snakes, such as rattle snakes, mocassins, ticks that cause lime disease, alligators and they do have crocodiles I was reading about it the other day, rabies, killer bees, polar bears, recluse spider, black widow spider and people with guns!
Guns seem to cause the most deaths.
You forgot the school kids with AR-15s!
@@JustJokes-bw4fs Yes, quite a few international creatures have less toxic venom, but are much more aggressive.
@@Dr_KAP of course...deadliest in the world...thank you for that truest reply yet..
The Koala ( NOT a bear, not even in jest ) is the only non human animal to have finger prints indistinguishable from human finger prints
Chimpanzees come pretty close. :)
I lived in FNQ (Far North Queensland) and the cassowary was the only thing that gave me cause to pause. They are intimidating. They need to ingest stones to digest their food. They are also found in Papua New Guinea.
Never heard of a brown snake being called a "Mulga"
King brown snakes are different. to an eastern brown snake, they are bigger. can grow over 3 meters. and also called a mulga maybe to tell the difference.
A Cassowary is about as close as you can get to an actual dinosaur.
Most of the animals aren’t found all over Australia, but a-couple are, the cassowary is only found in Queensland while the Mulga snake is found (like the video said) in most parts of Australia.
Mulga snakes are king browns.
I've never heard a king brown called a mulga before. I guess that's for Victorians
Cassowary's are in the Northern Territory too !
8:52 made me laugh so much. Hugging your emu as you got “scared” just made it funnier 😂
In Australia, treatment for a bite may cost around AUD$6,000, but this cost is covered by Medicare. Sucks to have Universal Healthcare..
When they wanted to add velociraptors into the original Jurassic Park movie, they used the cassowary as the basis for how they move and attack since scientist believe that cassowaries had a lot in common with velociraptors.
It doesn't get much closer to a "living dinosaur" than a cassowary.
I always find it funny hearing people claim chickens are dinosaurs closest relatives. Chickens were the only birds compared to dinosaur DNA! Not exactly much doubt that if they compared Cassowary DNA it would be a closer match than chickens!
About 20 years ago my husband and I were having a picnic in the Daintree area and were so privileged to see a Cassowary in the wild. Despite the fact they are very territorial and dangerous we never felt threatened and just watched it from a distance. Amazing and beautiful animals but they are endangered, mainly due to being hit by cars.
When changing our car tyre in the garage one night a funnel web casually ran past my husband - we had been having some torrential rain so had obviously been washed out and was seeking shelter indoors.
Honestly it is nowhere near as dangerous here as everyone makes out as long as you use common sense - I am more scared by Sydney traffic.
Five years ago the Australian population was 107 million. Today there are only 26 million of us left.
🤣 True Dat!
😂😂
Lord I’m happy I’m a Aussie who kinda lives in a bush area but knows what to do if I get hurt
Yeah mate, and if we were any tougher we’d rust. Or something. Lol
@@jessovenden yup the only danger I’ve been in as a Aussie was walking past a chill cassowary darn bird was just takeing a walk around the farm we visited cause it was a nice one the other one was a mean one so people can to be extra careful around it’s pen
When living in Mission Beach, I came into regular contact with a male cassowary that lived on the property. He had been fed by irresponsible people, and had a habit of soliciting fruit by tapping with his beak on the window. I christened him, General Nuisance. Although well armed, they’re shy, and would rather melt into the rainforest than attack. Incidentally, the reason they look like dinosaurs, is because, (as the scientific community generally agrees), birds are the only surviving clade of dinosaurs. Cassowaries have vestigial claws on their tiny wings, and their skeleton, with killing claw, looks like a scaled down Jurassic Park raptor.
Mum lives at Wangaling Beach just down from Mission and also has her favourite that is a regular around the place. She gets up anyone trying to feed or interact with them.
@@zalired8925 Nuisance was round at Lugger Bay, right around the corner from Wongaling Beach. Unfortunately, he was already used to being fed. This is not at all to be encouraged, as it puts the endangered birds at risk by getting them too accustomed to human contact. He was doing well when last I saw him, with several chicks following him each year. I occasionally wonder if he’s still striding around the point, although this was some years ago.
@@fionapaterson-wiebe3108 I'll ask mum, she does volunteer caring and education at the tourist centre in Mission. Also does monitor and welfare volunteering and would probably be familiar with most breeding males with chicks. Unfortunately she was saying traffic has been taking a heavy toll now tourist traffic has increased. I remember coping a lectute and almost a backhander the first time I saw one with her and was about to throw it the rest of my banana. I learnt that lesson mighty fast.
@@zalired8925 ha! Mission people are very passionate about Cassowaries. One of Nuisance’s sons probably inherited his camp by now.
Not that bad in Melbourne! I live outdoors and I’ve never seen 97% of these animals and the chance they will attack is very low
If you live in Melbourne you don't have to worry about being killed by a jellyfish or mollusc - the undertow of Port Philip Bay can kill you anyway :D .
everyone else worries about the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or Yeti, but Aussies get the Dropbear
And dont forget the Australian Yowie
and the hoop snake
Ryan, that cough of yours is persistant. It's been with you for weeks now.
Don't be creepy.
@@navs485 not creepy, probably works in the healthcare sector, as a former nurse i was thinking the same, its called caring about other people 🤷♀️ and Ryan, time to get that cough checked out 👍
@@navs485 I was being concerned actually.
@@unoriginalsyn Calm down mum
@@JayWhy1964 I know, just kidding!
Myself and two girlfriends were chased by a tiger snake once. It seriously wanted to “get” us. It followed as we ran, it was reared up and hissing loudly. When we got back to the Combi Van it was still after us, we didn’t have time to open the door so all of us jumped up onto the roof. It slithered round the van just looking for a way up. Eventually it gave up.
The Clymidia Koala's get isn't the human STD, it's different 😂
There are two strains of chlamydia observed in the koala population. The most common one, chlamydia pecorum is not transmissible to humans. However the second type, chlamydia pneumoniae is transmissible. This is why it is illegal to hold/cuddle a koala in all states except 3.
If the Funnel Web Spider is the deadliest spider in the world, then yes Ryan its more deadly than your Black Widow. Our Red Back spider is more deadly than the black widow.
A lot of koalas do carry chlamydia, but the chances of transmission are incredibly low. Even if you are lucky enough to see one in the wild (which is already a rarity) it's highly unlikely that you'll get close enough to risk transmission. It's also very common for zoos and wildlife parks to have some kind of 'cuddle a koala' experience, and they probably wouldn't risk it if there was a chance that the punters (and staff) could contract chlamydia from it. "Koalas can give you chlamydia" makes for a sensational headline (pun intended), but tbh you're pretty safe as long as you're sensible.
The most common strain of chlamydia by far in koalas is chlamydia pecorum which isn’t transmissible to humans. Only 3 states in Australia allow you to hold/cuddle a koala. It’s illegal everywhere else.
I know. I've tried but never got lucky enough with a koala to catch it. [
presumably the captive ones would be treated for it before being allowed to interact with humans in those experiences. The rest I agree with you on though
@Me Here I would assume so too, but I don't have anything to base that on other than common sense lol
@@mehere8038 no- there is a reason why it is illegal to hold or cuddle a koala in most states ! A koala could be a carrier of the disease and show no symptoms. Further they can test negative in early stages of the disease or have sub clinical infection.
Koalas are the least of our worries here in Australia. We consider them 'friendly' altho they have sharp claws and teeth. People have rescued koalas without being injured in the process.
The black Widow of USA has its Astralian cousin the Red Back spider, which looks and is same size. But has a red to brown strip on its back, but same red patch on belly. But no one has died of Red Back bite for very long time but Funnel Wrb spider remains a killer but is only an issue in Sydney.
I grew up around redbacks. The stripes can be red, brown, orange, beige, white or even black.
Spotting a black one was when I noticed that the hairs in the stripe point toward the spider's head, while the rest on the sides point backwards.
As an Australian, I just want to thank you for teaching me how to improve the video quality on TH-cam.
Fun anecdote - my cousin came home to find a King Brown snake in her garage. She killed it with a shovel.
Have managed 73 years and never encountered any of these things. It is a very safe place.
When he says get behind a tree it's not because they're dumb, just use the tree as a shield because they aren't very agile sideways and eventually they will give up
Welcome to Australia, we have these:
My friend who is from USA: “Do you speak like: G’day mate! I used to ride kangaroos and fight koalas!”
I grew up in suburban Sydney, most days in summer we had to deal with Funnel Webs, 60 yrs later I still shake out my shoes before putting them on, every single time. I turn them up and bang the souls until I’m sure they are empty. They still freak me out.
It's more common to die from a COW than any other animal in Australia, but people are not scared of Cows so don't be sacred
of cassowary or other crawlies
I think that once you take into account accidents in the racing industry horses are number one. Cattle are second. Dogs third (including 49% biting attacks, 41% people tripping over their dogs, and 9% car accidents.) Kangaroos fourth (all from running into a roo in a truck, car, or motorbike). Then snakes (mostly eastern brown snakes), bees, sharks, and then crocodiles. Then emus (five deaths in ten years, all by people running into them in vehicles).
There is an average total of 32 animal-related deaths in Australia per year; a rate of 1.23 deaths per million population per year. In the USA the police kill 1100 people per year on average, a rate of 3.3 deaths per million population per year.
@@brettevill9055 I wonder what the ratio of animals to deaths looks like though. Cassowaries are near extinct, if they were as widespread as horses or cows, we'd probably see way more deaths from them than we currently do. Still not something we have to worry about dying from though, given how rare they are.
That's really scary re police death numbers in the US! Pretty sure their animal death numbers are much higher than ours too, I know their dog bite deaths are WAY higher, their dog bite deaths alone are probably higher than our total animal deaths, due to the number of strays they have there & lots within species like pittbulls too & then there's rabies deaths they have to worry about as well!
Drama, drama, drama !! The jellyfish is something people are becoming more aware of and you often DO NOT have any sign of a sting, so that tiny thing is now being looked at for unexpected heart attacks in snorkelers in Northern Waters. The Cassowary is ONLY in the rain forests of North Queensland. Plus they are rare. Having hiked around Cape Tribulation 40 years ago I didn't even see one then ! "Wait-a-=whiles" yes [ a nasty thorn bush where if you have to wait a while to get the thorns out because if you push forward the barb will make it stay in until removed possibly by a doctor], but no giant dinosaur birdies.
I've seen a Cassowary attack. It was on a zookeeper in Sydney. It was a good 6' and ran him down then clawed him with its talons and opened up his stomach. He nearly died. Kangaroos can do this too, specially big males. They grab you with the claws on their arms, balance back on their big tail and gut you with the 4" claws on their hind feet. It happens more often than its reported.
I myself was bitten by a Funnel Web spider in my backyard in Sydney. I was mowing the lawn and it was flicked up onto my leg and dropped down into my rubber boot. It bit me twice before I could get the boot off. The pain was excruciating. I got to hospital in about 30 minutes and was given anti-venom but I had to be put into an induced coma. I survived but I was in hospital for two weeks.
BTW, hospital care is free down here, but not if you are a tourist. Make sure you have good travel insurance.
Cassowaries are recorded to have killed two people, total, in a couple of hundred years (plus an unknown number before records were kept, of course).. Both were trying to beat the birds to death, but fell over.
On the other hand, funnel-web spiders are vastly more dangerous than black widow spiders.
@@brettevill9055 Funnel webs are also more aggressive than redbacks, although I've only seen funnel-webs on tv. They look like they want to kill you.
As an Australian, I don't know if anyone has told you this, but it's not pronounced "ee-moo" it's ee-myu" Not sure why most people outside of Australia are unaware of this, but yeah XD
As an aussie who watched octonauts growing up, i knew about the cone shell and many other Sea creatures. In the cone shell episode a lot of the crew had to go to the sickbay but because it's a kids show, no one came super close to death
We had a king brown snake in our letterbox once when I was a kid. Gave my mum the fright of her life. Needless to say we decided to collect our mail another day.
That first animal is a cassowary, it has a rock hard growth on its head, it is strong enough to break bones, and kill. Edit: the video said that each cone snails venom had enough to kill 700 people at a time
The Cassowary does not attack with the growth on its head it attacks with its feet.
@@WayneCook306 It also attacks with it's head, I had a friend end up in hospital because they got rammed
There hasn't been a death from a Cassowary attack in Australia since 1926. When two boys were attacking a fully grown male adult bird and its babies with branches. I'm sick of these bs stories about how dangerous they are.
@@garryellis3085 I think it's more about the potential to be dangerous and Australia has A LOT of animals with the potential to be very lethal. I think though that people from each country/continent have THEIR particular animals that are potentially very dangerous but because they get taught about them and are used to them they don't feel AS dangerous while everyone else's deadly creatures still do.
Advice from an Australian to survive Australian wildlife.
1. If you see something deadly, just stay away
2. Leave the creatures be and they will leave you be
3. Don’t be an idiot around animals
In conclusion, if you are scared of our wildlife, stay away from it and/or be respectful
After being reminded in one sitting just how dangerous this place is I'm moving to Indiana. LOL 😂
Love from the Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia 😊
Just stay here....In the 40+ years living on The Sunny Coast I have never had to worry about someone shooting me! I HAVE been stung by jellyfish though..hurts like hell.
@@suzyfarnham3165 you're right Suzy :) I'm not going anywhere.
Just thought it was a bit of fun as Ryan wants to come here.
Sorry about your jellyfish attack, I knew someone once who suffered so my heart goes out to you for the pain. ♡♡♡
I came home the other night around 9.
Girlfriend's birthday dinner and her and her boyfriend had picked me up and dropped me off.
I left the inside light on and as I walked into the kitchen, there under the chair was a 10" baby brown snake wiggling around.
I took a video to capture my little visitor and thought, better ring the snake guy, cause they're as dangerous as adults because they can't control the amount of venom they inject yet.
Oh darn, didn't have that sort of money, so on a hunch, don't really know my girlfriend's boyfriend really but he looked like the kind a guy that could take care of business so I called them and they were back in 2 minutes.
Boyfriend grabbed a folded tea towel hanging on the cupboard door, threw it over the snake, it didn't like it much and wriggled free so he did it again and this time he got a good grasp and took the snake outside.
And I thought to myself how lucky I was it was under the chair and not under my bed so when I put my feet down in the morning and possibly startled it, it could've given me a nasty bite.
OMGOODNESS so so grateful to Girlfriend's boyfriend for taking care of business LOL :)
I'm from Australia. Yep, watch out for kangaroos, emus and cassowaries. They all have huge, tough toes (obviously on kangaroos it's their hind feet) on their feet that can easily disembowel you. If a kangaroo rocks back onto it's tail (for balance) it's huge rear foot toes can tear you apart.
I think funnel webs are mainly on the east coast. I live in Adelaide. Haven't seen one. We do have a deady very small one called a redback spider but I think it is survivable. Usually hides in garages and anything outside like under bike seats that sort of thing. I don't put on shoes that have been outside unless I have thoroughly checked inside them and I don't go into garden sheds without taking precautions.
Dee, the tiny Whitetail spider does a heap of damage, necrotising your flesh. The Red headed Mouse spider is extremely venomous, some have compared it to the Funnel Web, I've been bitten by a normal Mouse spider, it wasn't fun. The Queensland Bird Eating Spider will one day be responsible for a death or two.
Adelaidian here also, funnel webs aren't in SA, but are in NSW
The southern states are too cold for funnel webs. They wouldn't survive our winters. They only live in the sub-tropical regions.
@@SalisburyKarateClub Not here yet, but they're on the way.
There are two types of Funnel Web. The Sydney and the ones that live all through the Great Dividing Range. Contrary to a comment below, they are prolific in the New England area and live in temperatures of -14C. These Funnel Webs live mostly in tree hollows and behind bark. They will invade houses. In fact, friends of mine in Inverell lived in a caravan on their property, and every day found several inside. I read an article in the local Inverell paper that said the local Funnel Web was much larger than the Sydney and also much more venomous.
Despite all the dangerous animals in Australia, America still has the most dangerous animal of them all: humans with unrestricted firearms.
a senile head of state/commander in chief with access to nuclear weapons surrounded by people who probably have more influence than they should.
I'm an Aussie. Love watching your reaction, it keeps me laughing out loud the whole time!
Cone shells are mostly smaller and it does not help if it is mere inch long. The really big ones are rare.
"look at his eyes" 😵 LOL, Hilarious impression 😂
that thing is a dinosaur :) they didnt go extinct they moved to australia :)
And joined the Liberal party.
And PNG.
They are known to be a living dinosaur--- so yeah lol.
@@xymonau2468 You read my mind, before I even thought it!
Listen to " Hey! Hey! It's Daryl & Ozzie" ,the kids show record, to get your sense of equilibrium back!! YAY! 😂❤
Nobody has died from a spider bite in many many years. We have the antivenins and we don’t charge for them. We actually have some cool spider venom research going on, they’re trying to use the venom properties to protect against muscle damage after a heart attack
I think at this point your subscribers should be affectionately known as “e-moos”. Happy arrrvo, fellow e-moos! 🐄 🖥️
Count me in as an Emoo too. Happy Arvo to all!
Nope. Nope. Never. I cringe every time. 🤦♀
@@janemcdonald5372 😂😂
@@janemcdonald5372 How do you feel about my own term "Bonzafication"?
@@oakfat5178 Definition?
Your interpretation of a cassowary with its eyes rolled back had me laughing so hard ☠️
as an Australian i see this as a absolute win
😂😂 we definitely survive here haha 😂
The Blue Ringed Octopus freaks me out. I rested my hand on a rock right next to one once. If they do bite you, apparently you've got as little as a few minutes to live. That's not enough time to get off the beach.
The koala doesn't drop on people. They knicknamed drop bears because they climb down the gumtree trunk then jump (drop) off when they are near the ground.
SSHHHHH!!! Don't tell Americans that!
TBH, these videos are hilarious, most people have never seen these creatures let alone been bitten by them.
The deadly creatures are so few and far between, that I have not seen the vast majority of them in 65 years
At around 1:50, that looks like it might be a cone snail? Not sure though ^^;
Funnelwebs technically have a couple of regional variants. The worse one is the Sydney Funnelweb.
The King Brown is an interesting choice, for this, though, but it IS one of the worse brown snakes we got over in Aus...
Ahh, gotta love the Emu's angy little cousin, the cassowary... Cassowaries are generally angy murderturkeys, lol. They will also deliberately kick as high on the body of their target as they can.
Koalas can drop on you, and if they do, they're probably very drunk on slightly-fermented eucalyptus leaves and very grumpy ^^;
True. One fell on my sister's dog kennel and they had to replace the roof. It got away and back up a tree before the dogs could express their displeasure at it.
I don't know what to do about koalas abusing eucalyptus juice. If they could only read, I could get stickers made for the trees like the "Think before you drink" ones - "Cogitate before you masticate".
um, Mulga isn't a brown snake, it's a black snake, the only snake in the black snake family to have ever caused a human death, it has a grand total of ONE death to it's name. All the brown snakes have WAY more than that!
Gday Ryan! I'm born and raised in Australia and I am 64 yrs old and I have never encountered any of these creatures. Maybe they're found in the eastern states but not here in South Australia mate
I’m on the East coast and pretty much the same deal as you. Don’t see em!
Happy Arvo 😂😂😂 . Arvo mate or Arvo mates , or GdArvo ( Good Arvo). That's how to say Arvo in a Sentence 😂
The drop bear is actually a thylacoleo which is a prehistoric marsupial that hunts from above.
Yes, it's still around in pockets and although it's existence behind the scenes of social media people and animals have been attacked by it.
We know it as the panther because that is what we have grown up seeing in zoos etc. but when you look them in a side by side comparison they look extremely similar. The artist drawings are far from reality because they don't listen to indigenous people they just guess.
There's possibly several subspecies of them and before people say that it's impossible blah, blah, blah. Turn off the computer and go bush. If you can tell the difference between a marsupial paw print and a fox, dog or cat then you are half way there.
People go missing in the bush, never to be found and we wonder why. Don't forget, these have lived here for a millennia and have been an apex predator. They attack from above and as kids we're always taught to look down and watch for snakes. We wonder why we don't spot them. Level 10 camouflage and when they are spotted nobody believes you. Win/win for the thylacoleo.
They way everyone goes on about our “deadly creatures” its a wonder there’s any of us Aussies left.
What to avoid/be scared of in Australia: Crocodiles, sharks, venomous spiders and snakes, stingrays, Irikunji, blue ring octopus, Cassowary bird, cone shells and stone fish.
7:31 the cassowary has eye patterns most akin to prey eyes which makes the cassowary less scary but whatever is hunting it much more
Look at the pages of Aussie birds I sent you, Ryan - that big bird is on it. And all these "scare you silly" videos never tell you the biggest killer in Australia - it's the honey bees.
nope, the horse actually
Had🎉lovely young man who worked wt me 30yrs ago..had young family and one Saturday afternoon he was bitten by one honey bee on his throat..though lived less than a klm from major hosp he died before help arrived...Such a tragic accident to awonderful man...
And you may not see the underwater Funnel Web, as the bubble of air from its hairs will refract light and partially obscure it.
Bites are typically from males on the prowl during breeding season.
Australians are more worried by jellyfish than crocks or sharks
I was sleeping out many years ago and woke up looking in the face of a cassowary - never rolled over and stood up so quick. but it never made a move towards me
You're right the Casawary is a descendant of the Velocirapta, the dinosaur. Check it out for yourself.
Cheers and beers mate
But you have rattle snakes, their just as deadly. Truth is everywhere has something to avoid. But black widow spiders are nothing compared to Australia's selection lol, watch part one, the blue ring octopus, stone fish are also deadly. Not to mention the salt water crocodiles.
I've seen an almost 3-metre (10-foot) King Brown when I worked in seismic oil search in the late 70s in Far West Queensland. And yes, it chased my mate who provoked it, and it chased him for a good 30 metres before he jumped onto the side of the work ute.
All these animals exist in Australia but most people never see any of them. There are different species of funnel web spiders found mainly in the mountain forests of eastern Australia but the one that everyone talks about is Atrax robustus, the Sydney Funnel Web. These are mainly found north of the harbour. I lived in Sydney for 30 years and never saw one outside the zoo. The last death from a funnel web bite was over forty years ago, there has been an anti-venom since 1981.
Australia has lots of venomous snakes including eight of the top ten most venomous in the world but most people never see them. The deadliest snake in the world is the Saw-scaled viper which kills 50 people per million per year in India. All the Australian snakes together kill about two people per year and 95% of people bitten by snakes were trying to kill the snake at the time. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.
The largest cone snail, the Leopard Cone can grow up to 23cm (9.1 inches) but most are much smaller than that. There is thought to be just one death from a cone snail sting on Hayman Island in 1935. If you do get stung, it will be painful but highly unlikely to be fatal.
Irukandji and Box jellyfish are dangerous and can kill you. They are found off beaches in northern Australia mainly in the wet season (November to March). In the dry season, the prevailing southeast trade winds tend to blow them away from the coast. Most people in northern Australia don't swim in the ocean as, besides jellyfish, there are crocodiles.
It is not an "eemoo" it is an "eemyu". Cassowaries are confined to the rainforests of far northeast Queensland and most people have never seen one.
The most dangerous animal in Australia, the one that kills more people than any other, is the horse. People fall off them. But that happens in the USA too.
You should look up the Suicide plant, Gympie Gympie vine
Fun fact. Worlds 2nd most dangerous bird is the ordinary farmyard chicken. WHY? Because just occasionally a chicken will accidentally peck somebody’s eye out. And because there’s BILLIONS of them.
As an aussie. I havé seen 1 red bellied black snake and 1 eastern brown snake in 35 years.
Don’t worry we don’t have all those animals just roaming around everywhere lol. But they are pretty cool critters
Yeh Nah, don’t hug a cassowary or approach one. Some Emu can be just as viscous but you have a better chance with an eem you. If you see a Cassowary get inside your car.
A Funnel Web’s fangs can bite through leather shoes and your toe nail. I grew up in the land of Funnel Webs. Don’t hug them either. I remember the last person who died before Eric Worrel had anti venom was a 4 year old boy. He put his jacket on the sand at the beach. When he put it back on the spider was in the sleeve. Eric had to milk 200 spiders to make the first venom.
Are you watching part one? That video was truth but it is very rare to see most of these.
The Conus Marmoreus aka the Marbled Cone is my all time favourite shell. My family is very island orientated & every year we'd visit Masthead Island, a tiny deserted coral cay out on the Barrier Reef. One year we were fortunate enough to be one of the very few groups that got the opportunity to stay on Tryon island - which never opened to the public, was smaller than Masthead & oh so far off the mainland! - there were SO many cone shells washed up on the beach: thousands! NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING is more beautiful than those little deserted coral cays out there: TRUE PARADISE. The experience is like no other & the marine life is breathtaking ❤❤❤ I was a VERY lucky child.
Aussie here. Most of our dangerous animals are in the outback, and if you leave them alone they will leave you alone. I get several redback spiders at home, they are not aggressive unless you touch them. A friend of mine got bit on the butt because he got one in his jocks when they were on the washing line. It made him sick but that's all. I do a lot of gardening and often come across them under plants/weeds etc they have always ran away.
If people respect our wildlife then there is only a remote chance of being attacked. It doesn't seek people out!
In America you have more dangerous animals than we do imo. You have mountain lions, bears, wolves, coyote's, skunks, porcupines, raccoons all of which carry the rabies virus. We don't have any of that here, rabies was completely eradicated many decades ago. America also has 🐊 alligators, snakes, sharks. And all the dangerous, exotic animals that people keep as pets. Tigers, lions, bears chimpanzees etc, this is illegal in Australia. I think everyone gets my drift.
To put things into perspective and clear up some of the drama in this video;
- No one has died from a Funnel Web Spider bite since 1981 when anti venom was developed, there are 13 deaths on record before then
- Snakes kill roughly 2 people a year in Australia, Eastern Brown Snake is the most common by a lot
- There is only one, suspected, Cone Snail death on record and it's from 1935
- Less than 1 person dies a year on average due to all Jellyfish stings, Box Jellyfish is the most common
- Only one Cassowary death on record in Australia (there's a recent on on a farm in the US too) in 1926
For comparison, Horses and Cows kill more than 10 people a year in Australia so youre at way more risk on a farm than any area of the outback.
Side note; we have healthcare so anti venom is free at any hospital
Cassowaries? No way! I lived in Cassowary country and have seen many, including dads with their chicks. So long as you don't appear as a threat, they'll completely ignore you. Emus are far more aggressive than Cassowaries.
😅😅😅😅...Koala's do have Clamidia....in the wild.
The thing on the cassowary's head is like a giant tooth/ horn...that they fight with. Lots of these things are in tropical Australia...come to Perth...we have white pointer sharks ...but shark alarms at the beaches...but we do have the cutest Quokkas...on Beautiful Rottnest Island...google Quokka Selfies 😂
Iriganji. Jellyfish are a tropical Wet Season danger. I taught kindergarten in Broome and a student came to Kindy straight from swimming in the sea
....which I didn't know... within 10 minutes of all the kids arriving, she started screaming (4yrs)....I thought she might have been bitten by a spider...we searched her body trying to find a bite. Covered in special cream then I drove her to the hospital...met her grandma there...she said she had been swimming before...so they decided she had been stung by an Iriganji jellyfish...and it had taken 15 minutes for it to reach her nervous system. She was in anaphylactic shock and was treated with adrenaline immediately. She was such a tiny little girl and it was a horrible experience not knowing what the hell was going on😢...she was ok luckily x
Dozens of people every year find themselves up against an angry cassowary. Serious injuries are not common. It has been 97 years since the last recorded death by cassowary attack.
That cute little animal at the end was a koala - there’s NO SUCH thing as a, “drop bear”.
Btw koalas are not bears, they are marsupials and their cuteness begins and ends with their appearance.
"Dropping" bear, 😂😂
Karate Kid logic on the Cassowary....sweep the leg!
I’ll never forget going to Perth zoo, walking into the bird area and immediately having the Cassowary turn to give me a death stare then throw up a Banana before returning to death staring me. They are indeed horrifying
Ha I used to work at Perth zoo , that bird is an asshole still ! 🤨😁
@@simonjones2645 Bahaha well nice to know I'm not cursed to be hated by birds, I've certainly stuck clear of the bird section since 😅🤣
living with dangerous animals makes you tough.. and hardy.. and a good warrior...
LOL yep Koala chlamidia is common. If they pee on you, you're at risk. That's the STI they were talking about.
The cassowary can see you behind the tree, but you keep the tree between you so they can't kick you or if possible don't go near them in the first place
As an Australian I have to provide some constructive feedback on you pronunciation of emu, if I was a teacher I'd give you a D for barely pass for one good reason the first first part of the name e (ee) you pronounce perfectly the next letter m well thats fine but when it comes to u its very different the way people put it on the net is (ee-mew) but when you look at that some people think moo like as in a cow that's wrong its more like a kitten mew soo in conclusion this is how its pronounced in Australia (which is the origin) ee-mew (ee-myoo) (eem-yoo) (eem-you) there it is please let this be some information for you so that you don't make some of us proud aussies cringe whenever you pronounce it incorrectly and I hope you use this as a positive learning experience, I hope you have a great day/night and continue to make interesting reaction vids😁
Did they forget to mention funnel webs often don't let go requiring you to pull them off? Those people you see in hideous pain from the Irukandji have also been given the maximum amount of Morphine that can be safely administered and they are still completely suffering
Got them wrapped around my legs in FNQ and the pain was worse than childbirth. All I kept thinking was I was glad it wasn't my chest ..... So bloody painful.I honestly thought I would never be able to walk again! I got a smaller one on the Sunshine Coast once honestly only inches long and it still killed me!! I remember living in Darwin and NOBODY went near the ocean during certain months. I remember there was a bluff we stood on and the water was milky white with tens of thousands of these things! I have never seen anything lie it in my life? Enough to kill a small town!!