Aussie Fauna

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You never know when you’ll need to kill a herd of elephants, better be prepared.

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t tell me what to do, you are not my dad!

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the advice my dad gave me in my wedding night: “if you ever go to Australia for any reason, then be prepared to kill a herd of elephants”

      Words that I live by to this day

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Search your feelings, you know it to be true!

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    • raoulduke85@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re not mad at me, you’re mad at your dad! I forgive you!

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS-

  Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.

  After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.

  Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them for his master to clamber free.

  HMM… Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. “DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA,” he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.

  He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

  They waited.

  IT WOULD APPEAR THAT-

  “No, wait master. Here it comes.”

  Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up an caught the single sheet of paper.

  He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.

  “May I?” said Albert. Death handed him the paper.

  “'Some of the sheep, '” Albert read aloud. “Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside’d be better, then.”

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Never enough Discworld

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I saw a snail hunting a pack of elephants yesterday, the elephant was screaming something about him being immortal and if he touched him he would die.

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just realised where It Follows got its inspiration from

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• MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perhaps we have not yet found the animals that they have had to kill in the past to survive…

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes I wonder if this is a deathworld by planetary standards. Like we go to other planets and its super chill.

  Something like the first part this: youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU?ol0IyB2BmDW4VBov

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• judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They understood perfectly well, too bad that they have no idea what an elephant is so they got venom that could kill anything, just in case

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They understood perfectly well, too bad that they have no idea what an elephant is so they got venom that could kill anything, just in case

    Their ancestors knew. And they solved that problem.

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• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Waste of points, could spent it into INT or HP. Fucking glass cannon species.

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• Corno@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I love Australia but I’ve always wondered what exactly it is about Australia that made evolution go “yes, let’s make this place like Master Mode in BOTW where everything is OP, wants to kill you, and can one-shot you”

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  • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s really more of an easy mode with a couple of super unlucky bullshit gameovers scattered around than a master mode. Look at how many builds have overtaken the Australian meta since their introduction: dogs, cats (okay, they’re an apex predator everywhere), foxes, rabbits, cane toads, mice, rats, deer, camels, scottish thistles, horses… I could go on.

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  • Gronk@aussie.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean yeah it’s one-shot land but I’d feel more comfortable in the Australian bush than in other territories, a lot of these creatures can be avoided with a little bit of knowledge and caution, but there’s no large predators

    Most large creatures here can beat the shit out of you but they wouldn’t unless you threatened them.

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  • sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Castle doctrine but it’s mother nature and also sometimes your house

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about deadly toxin producing bacteria.

  You only need about 6 kg of Clostridium botulinum to produce enough toxins to kill all mammals on earth.

  Assumptions:

  • weight of a single bacterium is 1 picogram
  • a single bacterium produces 0.5 picograms of toxin
  • All mammals on earth are 1.4 gigatons of mass
  • a lethal dose is 150 nanograms per kg

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  • Mora@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can I buy that on Amazon?

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    • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can make it at home!

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes but the delivery is a problem. How do we package, ship and then get each mammal on earth to ingest 150 ng of the toxin?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Simple. Start a new plandemic and give out free vaccines! It worked last time, that’s why we’re all dead.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Deliciosa soup for their family?

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    • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, if all it takes is 6 kg, I don’t think it would be that hard to make like a few tons and fly around the world throwing a kg at a time into any body of water you find.

      Sure, you wouldn’t kill everyone, but probably most 🤷‍♂️

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  • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Genocide is evolutionary beneficial for the toxin producer, maybe there’s a ring of truth to it. Poison everything around you, free up resources for yourself.

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    • mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always wondered if the toxin didn’t kill the bacteria.

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• GlenRambo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The emus didnt only start a war with humans u know.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fucking warmongering dinosaur cunts…

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• max_dryzen@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cone snails represent

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kill? Why not paralyze or severely wound? Slow enough that you can kill with I don’t know a pointed stick, rock or gravity? Why make the venom do all the dirty work?

  This message paid for by toothjuice 417 local union

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  • quotable@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Got you covered australian.museum/…/australian-paralysis-tick/

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Blue ringed octopus it’s just using TTX though, it’s not like they developed that toxin through evolution. I’m not impressed.

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  • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bacteria be like “You merely adopted the tetrodotoxin. I was born in it, molded by it…”

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• propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t forget the sea kraits that live off the coast in Australian waters

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, I guess they aren’t a sea krait anymore, blabber mouth!

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    • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      🥁

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  • guillem@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the inland taipan, the most venomous snake in the world!

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  • RedCarCastle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    First line of defence

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• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like if evolution is correct (I’m confident it is) then it must be evolutionarily advantageous to have the capacity to kill a herd of elephants with one’s toxin, assuming all animals in the group have that capacity.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A lot of people think of “venomous” as being a one-dimensional property like strength or speed that you have to build your way up towards. But really it’s just how this substance your body produces that reacts with another substance in another creature who evolved on a whole other continent to you.

    There doesn’t need to be a strong evolutionary imperative to be able to kill a herd of elephants, it’s enough for there to not be a strong disincentive not to produce enough venom to do it.

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    • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      right but if I’m thinking correctly (maybe not) then if it “merely” wasn’t harmful, wouldn’t there be room for variation within the species of toxicity?

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Basically it means the animal’s prey(/predators for defensive poison) has evolved a massive resistance to the venom/poison that elephants haven’t.

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• Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean if the venom you stumble into is too strong, would you bother weakening it?

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Australian animals don’t need to kill Elephants

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  • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not anymore

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Very few animals that rely on venom need to kill elephants, including those who live near them. What’s a spider supposed to do with a 2 ton carcass?

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    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What’s a spider supposed to do with a 2 ton carcass?

      It’s for the achievement.

      Spore achievement: Epic Killer. Kill an epic creature in creature stage

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Apparently they didn’t get the memo.

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• atyaz@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe it softens up their meat all nice and tender

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Resistance?

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• detector9777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Great meme. Keep it up!

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