American Couple Reacts: AUSTRALIA'S 10 Most Dangerous Animals! FIRST TIME REACTION! *DON'T MISS THIS
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- American Couple Reacts: AUSTRALIA'S 10 Most Dangerous Animals! FIRST TIME REACTION! DON'T MISS THIS! Oh Australia and Poor Natasha!! She really took one for the team in this episode! When you have a super phobia of anything, it's REALLY hard to sit still or at least try and keep it together! We think you'll be amused at her distress and discomfort though, haha. This was a VERY interesting video aside from all the snakes! We had a few very important questions here we hope you will answer for us in the comments. Let us know what other animals you would add to this list and what you thought of this episode. Thank you SO much for watching! We love learning about everything, even the stuff that gives us nightmares! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! More Links below...
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Oh Australia and Poor Natasha!! She really took one for the team in this episode! When you have a Super Phobia of anything, it's REALLY hard to sit still or at least try and keep it together! We think you'll be amused at her distress and discomfort though, haha. This was a VERY interesting video aside from all the snakes! We had a few very important questions here we hope you will answer for us in the comments. Let us know what other animals you would add to this list and what you thought of this episode. Thank you SO much for watching! We love learning about everything, even the stuff that gives us nightmares! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
P!ssin myself laughing at the thought lol 😅
It's ok 'Tash', ya just need a kookaburra mate to keep them at bay 👍😁
Yes kookas catch, kill & eat them. 👍 Cool to watch!
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The notion that Australian wildlife is dangerous is extremely misleading. The top three animals that cause the most deaths in Australia are 1. horses 2. cattle 3. dogs.
Kangaroos and snakes are equal fourth. Snakes are only aggressive from late October to late November when they are rejuvenating from winter hibernation.
If you're in the remote arid regions of Australia, the death adder is the one to watch out for. Never sleep directly on the ground because the adder is attracted to body warmth.
I'm 73 years old and have had 5 encounters with snakes over the years without any incident. As soon as you see it just stand still and it will move on.
The order in which the animals are mentioned is nowhere near accurate.
I live in South Gippsland about 100 ks from Melbourne City I have horses,I walk out in the paddock and I could hear something moving at my feet I looked down and saw nothing then I looked up and heard it again looked down but still I saw nothing so I moved my head unit kept my eyes looking down and there it was just a inch from my feet was a big Tiger snake I back up it went his way and went mine,two days later I got up in the middle of the night with no lights on open the fridge the fridge light came on and and the snake went between my feet and under the fridge I waited for the sun to come up and caught the snake the same tiger snake from the paddock was now in my house with my for kids and my partner after getting up the nerve I finally caught it and took it away and got rid of into a paddock not killing it of course killing snakes is illegal in Australia,oh and the red back spider is what you call a black widow spider in the usa
Emu's stay clear.
lived here for 16 years now and haven't seen a single snake or even a venomous spider....I guess it comes down to where you live and if you do a lot of gardening. I must admit I had what I believe was an orb web spider that parked itself round the side of my house and put a web across the 1m wide pathway....I sprayed it with pesticide and that was the end (it was about 6 inches across the legs)
as an Australian, yes we have a lot of dangerous wildlife, but like all animals, if you leave them alone you wont have any issues (usually)
also, no, we don't have bears, or big cats. The only large mammal predator on mainland Australia is the Dingo (wild dog)
If I got to add to this list, I would definitely put the Cassowary! Huge non flying bird, HUGE claws, known to be aggressive
Debbie (trying to be supportive and loving) "I will protect you from the snakes", Natasha, "really?... I will throw you at it"!
Absolutely cracked me up.
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brown snakes are very very common - but the only people who seem to get bitten are people trying to catch or kill them
Or when it's sitting under your front step.... happened to me
I was bitten by an eastern brown while checking a fence in regional Victoria. I stepped next to it. I hadn't seen it in the grass. I had jeans on so was very lucky. Definitelt not trying to catch or kill it.
On another note, I have seen 2 red bellied blacks and an eastern brown in the last couple of weeks. They are very common around here.
@@mattking1437 that is one thing about Aussie snakes - most have short fangs so jeans and boots will often protect you. The exception is the taipan which have long fangs - plus they tend to live in areas where people wear shorts!
We have 9 out of the world’s 10 most deadliest snakes.
Once stepped on a snake lucky for me it was curdled up so I was standing on its whole body including its head. I just dropped my fishing gear and jumped off him then run away a few meters waited for the snake to move away then collected my gear and found another spot to fish
Deaths in Australia by animals from 2001 - 2017:
172 - Horses
82 - Cows/bulls
53 - Dogs
37 - Snakes
37 - Kangaroos (but all as a result of a vehicle incident)
31 - Bees (but all as a result of anaphylactic shock ie. allergic reaction)
27 - Sharks
21 - Crocodiles
0 - Spiders
Funnily enough the animal that scares most people in Australia isn’t on the list. The Magpie (a bird) will swoop and attack during the spring time/nesting time. They are very intelligent and if you piss them off they will remember you and attack for multiple seasons. But they also remember you when your good to them and feed them too.
So true. Aussies accept that there are quite a lot of animals that can kill humans, but we all know that unless we are careless or extremely unlucky they are not a huge problem BUT mention the magpie during nesting time and you will see fear OR some very strange attempts to avoid the maggie swoop. Having said that, I have a friend who began feeding a magpie that appeared several times in his front garden area. Very soon, this magpie brought his family. He now sits on the armrest as my friend relaxes on his front verandah. Absolutely no swooping attacks occurring.
@@JB-zs1oq haha totally. I had a couple appear at work (I work outside) so straight away I started feeding them. 3 times a day they would come by and wait to get fed. Whether it was left over lunch or actual bird feed I used for the other birds around. The went away through the summer but have been coming back the last 2 weeks 👍🏻
Completely right. The ones near me know my dog very well, as she likes to chase them so when we go for a walk they start swooping her and not me. Trixie thinks it's a game lol
unless you are in Tasmania our magpies dont attack
Actually like them. They have a really good memeory, however, so if you ever annoy a flock, that flock has you on their shit list forever.
We actually had a news story yesterday about a tourist that fell asleep on a Queensland beach and woke up when a croc latched onto his feet. He managed to get free but it proves that you have to stay alert everywhere because you don’t know where something might be hiding. We also have a stinging plant called the Gympie Gympie (pronounced gimpy gimpy), also known as the suicide plant because its sting is so painful it makes you want to cut your effected limb off.
That's lucky. Those crocodile jaws are incredibly strong
G’day, snakes in Australia are more scared of us than they are of them, if you don’t hassle them they won’t hassle you unless you corner them or stand on them. There are many beaches you can swim in without being harassed by sharks. Hope to see you here 👍🇦🇺
lol, you can swim at EVERY beach in australia without being harassed by sharks, unless you have met that one dodgy one that ties to sell you jewellery made from "genuine turtle shell"
and that is obvioulsy a joke about the dodgy shark but in all seriousness sharks do not harrass anyone, there are beaches where shark attacks are statistaclly more likely but the statistics are so tiny that driving to the beach is by far more dangerous than swimming and so is just having a shower ot eating breakfast...
Hi there, brown snakes, eastern brown snakes, pythons are around. I am in Queensland. The pythons are most common, not venomous and you just look out for them and keep little dogs inside. The browns - I saw my first one a couple of weeks ago in the bush. They are around but you don't see them. Obviously you keep a look out but on the whole, if you keep your distan e they will keep theirs. Some are aggressive lime red bellied black snakes. I don't like snakes either but they have a right to live, just not in my house. I have had a few pythons in my house in the capital city but I made some door ramps to keep them out. If you visited I very much doubt that you would see a snake unless you go far North or out West. Come on down, you will love it!
I'm a fairly adventurous 42 yo Australian, I have been stung by a box jellyfish on my ankle and foot. I have been bitten by a redback spider on my back while sleeping. I have had a close encounter with a big salty, he got within 6 feet of me before I saw it and moved back from the water. I have come across about a dozen brown snakes and many other species. I rescued a brown snake that wandered into the wrong place where I was working, and a death adder which was stuck in a lined dam, unable to slither up the side. I have been approached in a non-threatening way on multiple occasions by sharks and sting rays while swimming near the beach and offshore. If you get out there, you will definitely see some of this stuff. Visit just the cities and you might as well not come at all.
A English paramedic was on holiday and was staying with friends. I took him for a drive last week to see some country NSW. While working in the bush on one of the properties came across a Eastern Brown. They move soooo fast. When we got back home, my friends said that as he was a paramedic, If I was bitten I would be good. I then highlighted he wouldn't have a clue as there are no venomous snakes in UK. While fencing on another rural property today, I came across a diamond python. Beautiful creature, she let me pet her and she stayed in the same place all afternoon while I worked around her.
Correction - we DO have a venomous snake in the UK, it's called the adder. While not as deadly as your reptiles, it can produce a painful bite and has been known to kill humans.
Love the diamonds, so placid and docile where as carpets can be a bit grumpy.
@bobkearsley5931 If I find a Red-belly black snake on our property, I will carefully relocate it away from the house. They tend to drive the Brown snakes away and won't kill you unless you are already ill.
What a load of rubbish.
Lol😂
Here's some context, I've been alive for over 60 years and have had two close encounters with snakes (a brown and a red-belly black). Probably come across red-back spiders a dozen times, usually calmly killed the nest and moved on (not safe to have them around kids). And that's it. There are some parts of Aus that are a little more prone to encounters, but really, the likelihood of an issue is really small.
So, of 2-3 million tourists a year that visit us, we lose a few hundred. Mostly heart attack or similar (who'd have thought that someone who's got a heart condition shouldn't climb a mountain?), traffic accident (no, we don't drive on the wrong side of the road, you do) and similar. Also, falls and stuff and maybe one or two animal attacks a year.
Chill, come and join us and I'll throw a couple of prawn skewers on the barbie for you.
Oops, left one out. Drowning. Watch a few episodes of Bondi Rescue to see why.
its the drop bears that will threaten them more
I think I also saw on QI that the most dangerous animal in Australia, in terms of injuring and killing humans, was the horse.
@@nbartlett6538 I would have thought dog, but horse doesn't surprise me. Certainly fatalities. We had another jockey die in the last month or so from a fall during a horse race.
@@nbartlett6538 no that's a lie it definitely the dropbear
It's funny that people imagine that we see these dangerous animals everywhere, but that's definitely not the case. I'm 44, and have only seen around 5-6 snakes in my lifetime, so unless you are going bush or hiking, chances are not that common. These videos give Australia a bad reputation.
My brother went to Oz to stay with family friends for a couple of months. Down at the beach he was picking up shells and saw a really cute, tiny octopus in one. He showed our friends who proceeded to scream at him that it was a blue ring, so he lobbed the poor thing about a mile out to sea in panic! He was so lucky, i hope it survived the throw though
Great story , yes you dont want to muck around with the little blue ringed octopus . You also have to watch out for the pretty cone shell too. If the creature is alive inside it can shoot a spike out of its end that has a neurotoxin in it that can also cause paralysis like the Blue ringed octopus. You just have to be aware of these things.
Brown and tiger snakes are common all along the east coast of Australia, even in the cities and we've just learned to live with them. I live in suburban Melbourne, my house backs onto a creek and I have no doubt there are hundreds of snakes there. Our dog was bitten but fortunately she survived because we believe it was a dry bite, intended as a warning only. She was quite ill for a while and has never fully recovered but she is still with us years later. Another time I was at Werribee Zoo and one slithered across the path in front of us. It paid us no attention and was happy to keep its distance. As long as you keep your distance or if bushwalking make some noise allowing them to get away, you will very rarely see one though they will be around if you are anywhere near a grassy or bushy area.
Tiger snakes and the closely related to brown snakes (dugites) are found in south West Australia too, but like all snakes they are fairly shy and will avoid you if they can so they may be there but you rarely will see them. Red back spiders, those things are everywhere.
Wondering if those snakes are delicious ? I've eaten some snakes before although they are just common field snakes
Our cat was bitten by a brownie. Took it to the vet the injection cost $1400!
@@HenSt-gz7qj I have heard they are okay. The big problem is if the snake has bitten itself. Eat that meat and you can be poisoned.
@@nurgle11 Snake is delicious, but nothing beats witchetty grubs, oh maybe yabbies. Anyway, snakes are protected now, so off the menu
Hi ladies, I am a 54 year old Woman from Sydney and i can honestly say that i have never seen a snake outside of the zoo. A lot of these animals are found more in rural areas and the outback.
I live in rural Victoria and I see 10+ snakes a Summer in my yard, even seen a few at school. One Summer we caught my cat with a snake in her mouth 6 different times before she got bitten (she survived, $3000 of vet bills later). I'd take snakes over crocs and sharks any day!
Not looking very hard. Don't take absence of sight for granted, they're around. They're just more scared of you and stay hidden. I was in the same false sense of security until it bit me on the bum (foot really) and gave me three days in hospital to rethink my safety status.
At Flinders University in Adelaide they have signs ready to put out every summer to alert people where the snakes have been seen this time. Often near the lake in the center of campus. Saw a nice big brown snake many years ago in West Terrace Cemetery right next to the Adelaide CBD. It just glided past me and went about it's business.
Growing up on south coast we regularly had regular contact with snakes
My daughter & her partner live in Eden far southern NSW where I am visiting now for 5 weeks & she says they get at least 3 red belly blacks every week as there is a swamp about 75 meters down the hill .I have been here two weeks & the most dangerous things I have seen is one rabbit & myself as i nearly fell over a cliff two days before another man did & a walking trail that I had 149 steps to walk up hill all of the way
I've lived on my current property in rural Tasmania for 25 years. Have only seen 3 snakes in that time.
Yeah, but if something's gonna give you problems down here it's more likely to be Jack Jumpers. Horrible little bastard things.
I've lived in rural Victoria all my life (28 years) and see 10+ brown snakes in my yard every Summer!
Around the East coast of NSW, you'll mostly come across red back spiders, funnel web spiders and brown snakes. I'd also add cassowaries to the list , a very deadly bird if you venture into their territory
I'm a snake catcher by trade so it's always fun 😂, very very common to relocate a brown here in Queensland, very dangerous but if you know how to handle them they are actually quiet placid lol ( stay away from the bitey end of a danger noodle ), but the majority of the time during the day I'm relocating pythons, thankfully those nope ropes are very easily to handle ( most of the time I dont even use the hook, just pick her up and into the sack ) 20yrs in the trade and I've been bitten twice ( red belly and a rough scale had a go lol )
I get called for mainly tigers and red bellies. Tigers are my favourite because they are actually quite placid and will usually strike as a warning but just want to get away by once caught they admit defeat and basically ask 'so where we goin' now?'. You basically have to make them bite.
@@zalired8925 nice! 🤣, yeah most species will admit defeat once they know their not going anywhere except browns.. their fiesty buggers sometimes 🤣
@@Mechanic.Pete41 Thankfully not many easterns in my area, too swampy. Used to get the odd Broad Headed but unfortunately they've just about disappeared from all the Illawarra. Beautiful snakes, venomous but not dangerous, as in passive.
@@zalired8925 just finished a job about 10min ago with a rough scale ( I'm on the fraser coast ) found it's way into a ladies pantry lol, it wasnt moving at all even when I hooked it, thought it was dead for a few seconds until the head moved my way 😅 I think I woke him up or something because he didnt put up one bit hesitation on the hook or going into the bucket, just dropped him off with a wildlife coordinator to give him a once a over ( make sure he hasnt eatin anything nasty ) pick him up this arvo for a relocate
@@Mechanic.Pete41 Nice one. They can give a nasty nip too. Haven't seen them here, probably too far south. One northerner down here though is Golden Crowned, often mistaken for the eastern brown which luckily isn't common here. Well done and thanks👍🏼
Hi Natasha and Debbie, although there are lots of dangerous and venomous animals in Australia (in addition to having the most venomous snake, we actually have 7 of the 10 most venomous snakes in the world), the risk is often overstated. Between 2001 and 2017, there were 541 animal-related deaths in Australia (so, 32 per year), which is actually less than the rate in USA (201 per year). The rate per population is about twice as high in Australia as USA (1.25 vs 0.61 per million per year). You might be surprised to learn that many of the deadliest animals in Australia (by rate of death) were not mentioned in the video. These are horses (10 per year), cattle (5 per year), kangaroos (2 per year - all as a result of vehicle accidents, like deer in USA) and bees (2 per year). Of the ones that were mentioned in the video, the rates for snakes is 2 per year, sharks, 1.5 per year and crocodiles, 1.2 per year. Of course, if you include humans as an animal, humans are by far the deadliest animal in both countries, with homicides rates of 9 and 65 per million per year in Australia and USA, respectively. Therefore, you are 52 times as likely to be murdered in the USA as you are to be killed by an animal in Australia.
There are lots of snakes in Australia but it is fairly uncommon to see them, especially in the cities. They really do usually try to avoid humans. I think the inland taipan might be an exception. If you go into the bush a lot, you will see them occasionally, but if you leave them alone, you will be fine. Most bites occur when people try to handle or kill them. In the last year, I don't remember seeing a snake. However, I did get Ross River fever from a mosquito bite (which caused a relatively mild illness with a short-lived rash, fever and lethargy, followed by joint pains for a couple of weeks), and was stung by a bee and a march fly.
In my teenage years, in the south-east, I did a lot of fishing (in rivers), bushwalking and bush camping. I typically saw tiger snakes a couple of times a year. Each time they were moving away from us as quickly as they could. I never knew anyone to be bitten by one or even to be threatened by one.
Hello Natasha & Debbie & The Show. Hope you are over the shocks of these creatures from Australia. I’ve been on 4 trips to Oz and the only dangerous creature I’ve seen is the Salt Water Croc, but this was only on a sight seeing trip specifically to see them. This could be that I was organised tours.
We did have an alcohol ad on TV where someone standing by a pool and said “Are there any sharks in there?” the beer drinker replied “No. the croc ate them!”
Snakes are pretty uncommon even in towns, especially in the southm just avoid walking through long grass.
A far greater threat that he didn't cover, probably because its rarely deadly is the common magpie.
They're terrifying in Swooping Season.
Eastern Brown snakes can be located in some urban areas. Australia also has the aggressive Bull shark and the Irukandji jellyfish. Not sure why the Red-Back spider is there, as very low death rate.
I have been stung by the box jellyfish, I got stung on the right wrist and the right side of my abdomen.... It was summer 1988 and I was 10, Getting stung was the 2nd most painful thing I have ever felt.... The most painful was the next day as the poison slowly seaped out of my skin where I was stung......to me kidney stones only rate a 7 out of 10 for pain.... I clarify my low pain number in hospital when they ask me to guage the pain.... The scaring took years to fade...
Wow!!!!!! 😢
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow it only brushed against me as I went into the water....too quickly for it to get away and I didn't see it... Well it did have to be pulled off me but only 2 small areas of my body came into contact
I lived in north Qld for several years but stayed inside the stinger net when swimming and never had an issue. Sorry to hear you were unlucky.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish?wprov=sfla1 this is much smaller and supposed to be more painful, never felt it sting so I can't compare.... They are becoming more common as water temps rise tho I believe 😭 and as they are ting they need specific netting to block them....
@@FionaEm I was on the north side of Magnetic Island, no netting there, nobody else at the beech got stung, just unlucky I guess
Blue ringed octopus. We find them in Sth Aust lots of times down at the beach around rock pools. You really need to avoid those little buggers!
F#$ck around and find out mentality keeps us alive, Pretty sure Americans are the same!
Very true
i spent a couple years in Australia, and have personally seen a red vellied balack snake ( it had something in its mouth), an eastern brown snake in Melbourne, a death adder whie up in Queensland, and an inland taipan, which is rhe inly one that really scared me, but as i did not do anything to it, it just went by me. I also handled, with gloves, many funnel web spiders as i think they look quite awesome. By the way, mosquito's spread malaria, which is why they are considered dangerous.
I am so glad I live in the UK. No venomous spiders and only one venomous snake. If you want to be even safer, live in Ireland, where there are no venomous snakes. I have only seen an adder once in my life time and it was having a sunbathe at the side of the path.
The Weever fish found in the sea has venomous spines, but it causes a reaction similar to a wasp sting.
We do have packs of marauding squirrels though that hunt people coming back from the pub.
The guy who taught me to scuba dive had been attacked by a Gt White. It tried to swallow arm and he had a ring of scars around his chest shoulder and back.
how common is the RED Back Spider.. In South Australia Suburbia, you are probably never more than a few meters from a Redback, they are Ground/Surface dwellers, so Cupboards, under anything, sheds etc, anything that is dark enough for them. Specially if a place doesnt get cleaning behind where cords and stuff are, you will probably find one or 2 (depending on if a male and female have began the dating game).
We have Bull sharks in the rivers in australia.
I have just moved to QLD, I live right next to a creek and I know for a fact there are snakes there. I know because I was cleaning the fenceline n found snakeproof mesh along the bottom of the fence. Ive lived in areas where i do know there are snakes but havent had the pleasure but I do have 3 cats which im locking up because i cant risk them being taken.
Ive had redbacks run across my feet. They arent aggressive unless they are protecting a sac. I dont muck around with them and i never let grass grow too tall because they are ground dwellers and love to throw a web out through the tall grass.
The redback spider - I have a story. :) When my family moved into a rental home, the backyard shed was full of a colony of redback spiders. My mum asked if there were any daddy longleg spiders, and we found some under the house and put them in the shed. In two weeks, no redback spiders. The daddy longlegs ate them. Daddy longleg spiders are not poisonous to humans. Handy to know.
Yep, if you live in the West you try not to kill the old daddy long legs for that exact reason.
We had an Eastern brown in out backyard just after Christmas, Over 25 yrs we have had two in the pool and one in my son's bedroom. But thats just Australia, we dont stress too much about them
1:51 I had a big snake in my wall Australia it’s lovely down here
I live Brisbane, Queensland and every summer at work we find Eastern Brown Snakes (2nd most venomous snake) in timber stacks. Carpet Pythons (non venomous) are also super common.
I live in suburban Canberra (aka the Bush Capital), and genuine "wild bush" is about 10 minutes walk away. We really do have kangaroos in the front garden sometimes (and certainly at the end of the street most nights).
Snakes? Common enough that there are phone numbers to call to get a snake catcher to come and remove them. Rare enough that you don't keep the phone number anywhere. By default, you consider every snake to be venomous, and just leave it alone.
In the inner city, stumbling across a snake is rare. When I used to live in a house that backed onto a forrested area, I'd come across a snake once or twice a month. Most of the snakes want nothing to do with you and will get out of your way if they notice you coming. However a variety known as death adders will try to rely on their camouflage. Almost all death adder bites are from someone not noticing the snake & stepping on it. But general rule with animals in Australia - you leave it alone, it'll leave you alone
As an Australian living in a small city, I don't see snakes often. It's a general rule to avoid long grass just in case, but In cities you're not too likely to see snakes as far as I'm aware. I remember having red back spiders in the backyard once, had a broken window at the time too. Didn't have any issues. We just weren't allowed to play in the backyard. And to answer your question about what animals Australians fear, for me it's cats and birds. Cats because of childhood trauma, birds cus of magpies.
The inland taipan, or fierce snake, is the most venomous land snake in the world. Luckily it is rarely found and lives in remote desert ranges away from where most people live. Kudos to Natasha for braving your way through this video! I live on the central coast of Queensland and I have only seen four snakes this year so far!
Seen many Brown Snakes and Red Back Spiders in metropolitan Adelaide. Brown snakes are so common we just call them brownies. It is very important to know what snake it is because the medicine needed if bitten depends on the type of snake. In almost pile of wood you will find red back spiders and years ago there was a funny song about a Red Back on the Toilet seat!
I love these videos about how dangerous our creatures are… they do great work in keeping dangerous Tourists away 😂
I’ve worked as a tradesman at home in Fremantle (your next video?) …and travelled all over remote Australia , surfing and fishing for 40 years and the worst I’ve had is bluebottle jellyfish and flying wasp stings. Most of those creatures are in specific areas where you are aware of the relatively low dangers …or you never see them because they keep to themselves.. none set out to attack humans!
Steve 😉
South Australian here, redbacks and brown snakes are both VERY common here 😢
Ive been bitten by a redback when i was a child, in my bed while asleep. I didnt know til the next day when i noticed the bite and was vomitting the next morning.
The bite area took sooooo long to heal.
A large Brown snake in South Austrslia is such an awesome and intimindating sight. Theyre not interested in us. But they are so agressive and strong looking you know not to mess with them. Walking and talking loudly will ensure you dont surprise them.
I am 61 and of all these I have seen a funnel web once and a black snake once but quite a few redbacks- but they mind their own business; it is very rare that anyone dies from any of these. Stonefish are found in the tropics, along with Taipans and box jellyfish
One of the Kookaburra's favourite food are snakes. They grab them and fly up high and drop them multiple times till they're killed.
I regularly hike in the bush (several times a week) and rarely see a snake. When I do it is always exciting. They just want to be left alone so if you keep your distance we are both happy. :) When I have hiked in the USA I am far more concerned as you have bears, cougars etc.
I'll give you my perspective. Context: I've lived in Australia for 27 years, mostly in Brisbane, but also Sydney and Newcastle.
I've seen ONE of the 10 animals in this video - the redback (and I haven't seen a redback in a number of years). But, I don't swim in the ocean (I don't like the smell or taste of ocean water, let alone box jellyfish, stingers and sharks). I don't go into country areas much (I live in the 'burbs and work in the city). I don't have anything in my yard that snakes and spiders could live in and pay a guy to mow my yard regularly. My point is that it's possible to live here and not see any of those nasties.
You were very brave, Natasha, to do this video. You obviously have ophidiophobia, 100%!
During the summer i see around 5 Brown snakes at work a week as i work on a poultry farm in central Victoria
22:16 You forgot Stingrays. When you walk through the thigh deep water at the beach they just look like a stick. The barb is all that shows. We call them magic carpets if you stand on one. You get to know what to look for and at night you get your mate to go first.
20:48 A wet suit or stockings can stop a jellyfish sting. It is only a small distance that the stingers can penetrate. I used to wear stockings when I was in Nippers. Child surf life saving.
We have Bull Sharks too except they travel a long way up fresh water rivers and attack when you would be expecting it. They account for more deaths than any other shark in Australia.
Our cat use to bring back live red bellied black snakes alive and leave them on the door step. We would go to the door and have a really pissed off snake at our door. They didn’t mention the irikanji? Or is that the box jelly fish? Oh and don’t forget the drop bears!
Im an Aussie and I grew up surrounded by Tiger snakes and Coastal Taipan snakes, they are both extremely deadly, but the Inland Taipan IS the deadliest snake in the world, same snake but live in different parts of our country. They would rather evade you than bite unless of course provoked or stood upon, just so you know!
My dads best friend was a truck driver who was driving back roads on a job and stopped his truck and got out, no ones knows if it was to relieve himself or check the trailer load, he got bitten by a Taipan and died before anyone found him, poor bugga.
I'm not a fan of snakes either, my old grandmother used to clout em with a broom if they tried to get in the house.
I live in Bayside Melbourne. There are snakes by the beach in the shrubs apparently but I have never seen one. I have seen photos of them there, so they are there. I walk by the beach paths all the time and just keep an eye out in case. Crocodiles here where I live are just as common as alligators in New York. Salt water crocs are tropical, and up there they are signs every where to warn you to be super vigilant by the water's edge. And just a bug bear for me: jelly fish don't attack; they just drift into you or you into them.
I was working for hertz car rentals and was out picking up a car in the country and stepped around the other side of the car and came face to face with a taipan! About 3 foot away.. I jumped about 12 foot backwards and the taipan stood up in attack mode then took off , very scary moment but that’s the only one I have ever seen .. my whole life here I have probably seen a dozen snakes
Sydney boy here...have seen a funnel Web & a redback spider....squashed them both. Have never seen a snake outside of a zoo. Snakes are prevalent if you live in rural areas...for the main part...
Snakes are quite common on my property. I have Redback spiders in the sheds and found a Funnel-web in the pool last month the chickens made short work of it after I fished it out. Funnel-webs are only a problem for primates so other animals have no problem with them.
I’m 60 years old and no animal scares me but I’m not about to pat a croc. Or annoy a snake
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I live in Brisbane Australia and never seen a taipan snake but most of these except the red back and ocean life are located in bush areas ❤❤
A friend in Sydney saw a funnel went spider in his yard,he threw something at it ,missed and as he walked around his yard the thing stalked him
Hi, guys, I live about an hour NW of Sydney in the Hawkesbury. Snakes and spiders everywhere out here. Just a part of life.
Nobody likes the brown snakes. They're aggressive, bite multiple times and will rush at you across a distance before you've even noticed them. Red bellied blacks are somewhat less poisonous and way less aggressive (quite shy) and they're "good" because they keep brown snakes off their territory. I trained as a snake catcher at my preschool bec there were issues with them coming into the classrooms. Was very nervous learning how to bag the browns.
Redback spiders = everywhere. Under the rim of every potplant and outdoor furniture.
Funnelwebs...hmm, used to see them all the time when I was kid, but haven't seen one for years.
Tiger snakes...had a good friend who got bitten by one and was in intensive care for 3 weeks and suffered from a weak heart and longterm nerve damage, poor bastard, but lucky to be alive.
If you go hiking out in the Blue Mts near us here, wear good hiking boots and thick socks. Protects against the bull ants, which cause a very annoying bite that takes weeks to go away.
Don't overreact to shows like this, tho. If you visit Oz, you'll come, you'll see, you'll go, all happy and in one piece :)
Aussie here, born and bred, seen many of these animals in the wild. I love all the animals, however, crocs scare me because we're on their menu, box jellyfish will scare me because they'll accidently get in your space and the sharks have poor eyesight, so they'll sometimes mistake us as food. All the other animals on the list will swiftly move away from you...just gotta respect their space!
Most far Northan areas of Queensland and Northern territory are high risk areas with Crocs, jelly fish and reef sharks but have good warning signs.
I live in the rural mid North coast of NSW and see plenty of spiders and snakes but have only been bitten once by a snake and twice by spiders.
We have no bears of big cats
I live on the edge of a medium sized town in northern Victoria and have literally pulled up and had a snake in the driveway.
When I was 16 I was surfing off North Stradbroke and sitting behind the breakers I got all excited because I thought a dolphin was checking me out which had happened before. After the second (tail) fin appeared I fell off the board in fright and went into combat mode (not that would have done much!). This big, beautiful pregnant Tiger Shark turned a bit my way, had a look then swam off. MOST creatures here don't want to hurt you. That being said I got hit by Blue Bottles and ended up in hospital but anyway, they live there I dont.
Redbacks are pretty common here and usually like to hide under your outdoor furniture and BBQ.
Brown snakes are being seen more and more around the suburbs of Adelaide, Redback spiders are everywhere, and you learn to live with them, there has been a lot of shark sightings and a few attacks in the waters of the Adelaide beaches, but you just have to be aware of your surroundings. Now Magpies are something you should be scared also watch the video called Come to Australia by the Scared Weird little guys.
Snakes become more regular when the temperature is above 25c but more active from 28 to 31c
Was in Aus a few years back, out as a group walking in the mountains. There had been wildfires in the area and some of the group stopped and were looking at an area where there were charred branches lying on the ground. One of the 'branches' moved, and our host advised we move on quickly as it was a brown snake.
I live in the outer southern suburbs of Adelaide in the 30years here, I've seen 2 brown snakes and 1 red bellied black snake. If you see a snake around your place just call a snake catcher.
I'm at @18:36. I would say it would be nearly impossible to find the inland Taipan (I expect that this is the one they mean) which is supposedly the most poisonous snake by far and extremely shy and not very aggressive. But that is not Australias only toxic snake.
Here in Australia we actually have 20, out of 25, of the worlds most venomous snakes. Yes the can make there way into towns and cities. Not common in the big cities, except in the suburbs on the fringes.
Honestly the chances of running into any of these creatures is extremely remote. I am 58 go camping quite a bit and have probably run across half a dozen or so snakes, all out in the remote bush. There are few encounters in the suburbs but not often at all. Come across only two sharks whilst fishing from a boat. So really nothing to worry about if you visit, just enjoy the scenery and atmosphere of the country. Though I think Debbie might have a problem as we have lots of flying insects in the evenings.
I live in Sydney near a National Park for 52 years and have seen only 5 in the wild
A little late, but regarding the brown snake? My last job was at a campus and we got a yearly warning when they were seen on the paths and lawns, so we could look out for them, because if you aren't alert they look like sticks :(
My uncle many years ago was bitten by a Red Back, it wasnt the venom that very nearly destroyed him but rather the rather nasty and very deadly Bacteria on its fangs that it injected into him. He was bitten on the stomach and ended up with a devastating case of Necrosis. He survived but is now missing about 40 percent of his abdomen and internal organs and has virtually zero quality of life.
Rule with snakes is, if it's got a small head, it's venomous, if it's got a large head, it isn't. I think out of the world's 10 deadliest snakes, we have 7 or so.
You *could* see a snake if you're doing any bushwalking, if you see one, stand still and if you can, back away slowly.
I’ve been to Australia quite a few times tiger snakes. I want of the few snakes that are basically deaf along with the bamboo snake in China. They can’t feel the vibration so they don’t know you’re coming which is why people get bitten by them because they are surprised and the other reason is because they spend their time trying to get them out of their gardens. Instead of leaving them alone tiger snake in Western Australia is the most common snake to get bitten by.
I see spiders and snakes often I live in a small regional city. Brown snake at the back door 3 days ago.
I am 59 y/o Born in Oz and lived in both cities and country towns. I have seen maybe 3 brown snakes in my life and NEVER seen a Tiapan Snake EVER. Ceocodiles live only in the far north of our country so never seen them in the wild either. Once saw a stone fish but it swam away very quickly
Flying fox is a fruit bat, about the same size as a possum, of the marsupial variety. Australia has 21 out of 25 deadliest snakes in the world and the first 11 are Australian. Taipan snakes are found north of the tropic of Capricorn. Tiger snakes are in suburbia, I live 55km south of Melbourne and lost a young cat to a tiger snake about 25 years ago, because the cat was trying to play with it. Cat managed to get inside but started fitting and vomiting and died about 10 minutes before I got home from work.
One rule you are taught is don't walk through tall grass during summer. Snakes tend to hide there - once walked by a bunch of tall grass and saw a snake 2 seconds later
Really we don't see them often but then I'm oblivious. I had a huge brown in my garden. I gardened every day in bare feet and it never bit me. Lucky i guess 😂
I’m actually quite disappointed that they didn’t mention the cassowary. Flightless bird from northern Queensland. Basically a velociraptor with feathers. Should be in the top 4
I have a major fear of spiders, when I visited Australia I was like ok check shower bath toilet bed shoes lol
If Debbie doesnt like bugs,watch out for the flies,especially the Aussie bush fly,lol.
I live right near the wetlands - prime brown and tiger snake area - I've only seen one once in 15 years, sunning its self by the water. They are super common, I just don't ever see them
I've been bitten by a Redback Spider once as it was at home under my outdoor table, been within 3 feet of an adolescent (adolescents are more dangerous than adults as they don't have control of their venom release so they inject all of it in the one bite) Eastern Brown Snake as it slithered by out of it's nest past my exposed feet in my back garden and I've had a Box Jellyfish wrapped entirely around my ankle while I was walking on the beach at waters edge. The last one I was lucky as it didn't react to me and I simply rotated around on my foot as if to unwind it like a tangled strand of wool.
I feel you re fear of snakes. However, I've lived here for nearly 15 years now and have seen a grand total of ONE danger noodle whilst hiking. I've seen more Crocs in the wild than snakes.
Our cats bring baby Eastern Brown Snakes into the house....... I've only seen one adult snake, and I left that well alone!
None of the snakes in this video were taipans. Taipan's eyes are unique - round pupils and an iris that's either red or orange [depending on the sub-species]. That probably isn't going to be a very useful piece of information - if you're close enough to one to see the colour of its eyes, then you're far too close. In one of David Attenborough's documentaries there is a pair of taipans doing this strange inter-twined mating dance that they do. They showed the camera crew hiding behind a sand ridge about 100 yards away, filming the snakes with a telephoto lens. They were all lying down - even a ranger from the Parks and Wildlife Service, who are all trained to handle venomous snakes, was crouched behind a low bush and watching them through binoculars. David Attenborough said that they couldn't approach any closer because it would be "extremely dangerous"", and he's not a man that's easily scared. I was in the infantry in North Queensland, and I won't lie to you, taipans terrify me.
I have been bitten by a redback and im still here to tell the tale
The brown snake is common but I’m 55 and never seen one around where I have lived.
To see a Taipan snake, the most deadly one, it would be about 0.03% of a regular Australian seeing one, so a visitor who's mainly in the suburbs and city, I'd say about 0.005% of seeing one. They're only found in extremely remote red earth areas. More like 3hours or more from the suburban areas.
Being our Australian love this
We moved into a country property and we saw 6 tiger snakes close to our house in the first year. One was one meter from my wife.
I’m from Queensland. One of the suburbs. I’ve encountered many spiders. Yes hiding in my shoes even lol
I now step on the toe part before putting them on just by habit lol
Only really ran into snakes when I visited the bush and even then, not very often
And I typically turn around when I see one lol
Hi to you both just wanted a break from crying my dad passed away on Saturday so you’re video was a small distraction so thank you love him lots rip my lovely dad❤❤
we have 8 out of the 10 most deadliets snakes in the world in australia , we also have antivenin everywhere and a really good ambulance service
Your reaction to snakes is like my reaction to spiders. It's rough.