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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the animals REALLY most likely to kill you in Australia
By Gemma Chilton • March 22, 2016

Horses and cows and dogs, oh my!

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topic

Back in 2011, Australia’s National Coronial Information System (NCIS) released its most recent report into the trends and patterns surrounding animal-related deaths in Australia, covering the first decade of this century.

Of the 254 confirmed and reported animal-related deaths during that 10-year period, horses, cows and dogs were the most frequent culprits, accounting for 137 deaths.
Horses (including ponies and donkeys) were the most ‘deadly’ animal in Australia, causing 77 deaths in 10 years, mostly related to falls. Cows (including bulls and cattle/bovine) accounted for 33 deaths – 16 by causing motor vehicle accidents, the rest by crushing, piercing or ‘unknown’. The majority of the 27 deaths caused by the third biggest killer, dogs, were from attacks, with those deaths mostly occurring in children under four years old and in elderly people.

Shoot the messenger?
In case you hadn’t cottoned on yet, it turns out most of our perception of risk is somewhat out of whack when it comes to judging the likelihood of a deadly encounter with certain animals (what’s scarier, surfing near a river mouth at dawn, or visiting a friend’s dairy farm?).

“Our perceptions of the probability of an event has been shown to depend on its availability – how easily we are able to bring such events to mind,” explains Professor John Dunn, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology.

“Events appear on the news and/or are talked about because they are noteworthy, unusual, or dramatic. As a result, these kinds of events are more available and hence we overestimate their probability of occurrence,” he says.
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As usual, spiders, snakes and marsupials taking the wrap for domesticated mammals …[/quote]

Grew up in Australia and regularly visit family there. We often visit wild life sanctuaries that offer feeding of kangaroos and wallabies (and crocks for that matter).

I personally have never experienced run ins with Roos and don’t know anyone else who has either. Kangaroos are akin to North American deer in terms of numbers and hence do bother some farmers. But they do not cause as many car accidents as deer. Roos are extremely efficient at procreating and often have three generations of young at one time (in womb/ in pouch and indecent but coming home to mum to drink occasionally).

I don’t know anyone who has been bitten by venomous spiders (one distant cousin was bitten by a snake).

Australia is the most highly urbanized country in the world. Even in the cities, people tend to be respectful of nature and take due precautions.

As cited in article, the highest number of animal related fatalities in Australia are due to interactions with domesticated mammals.
 
Thankful that Australia has sensible gun safety laws after the massacre at the historical tourist site in Tasmania many years ago. Human on human violence is the scariest of all. [/quote]

This is so spot on for an Australian to post.    :D [/quote]

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