Originally posted by dbs Geesh and they all get het up about Australia's dangerous animals and stuff !
BACON
Dave
Australia does have a lot of smaller animals/insects poisonous snakes, etc.
In my part of Canada we have reptiles, but nothing poisonous, but I wouldn't dangle my fingers in front of a common snapping turtle....or a big Pike. There are rattlers (snakes) in other provinces. Insects too, ones that sting, but nothing poisonous to people as far as I know.
But when I think of it, we do have large....potentially dangerous animals.....Black Bears all over the province, then way up north, lots of Polar Bears and the odd Barren Ground Grizzly bear (which after thought being extirpated from the area) there are now instances of them slowly coming back, moving in from the NWT, etc.
Timber Wolves are here, although not many instances of them going after people, the occasional Mountain Lion, Elk, Caribou, Moose...who if you were to bug them might come after you.
I guess pretty well everywhere there are animals/insects that can be dangerous to people......just different ones in different parts of the world.