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Originally Posted by ozwildlife
Australia does have an impressive variety of dangerous creatures, but don't let that put you off coming here to have a look. 
- average number of people killed by crocodiles each year = 1 (about a dozen in 20 years)
- average number of people killed by sharks each year = 1 (192 in 200 years)
- average number of people killed by snakes each year = less than 2
- number of road deaths in Australia = 1611 (2007 total)
According to stats quoted from world health organisation in this Wikipedia article on Snakebite, there are the 100,000 deaths each year from snake bite in Asia. This makes Australia's 1 or 2 fatalities a year look small. I didn't realise the global death toll from snakes was so high. |
Those figures do seem a lot lower than I would have imagined - refreshing really just incase I do ever leave Europe and head your way
. But I think it would be your spiders that would put me off
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I digress a bit with this link - but it's sort of relevant to the post
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Python stalked family pet before swallowing it whole | World news | guardian.co.uk