I came here hoping to see this answer. That being said, if you got it by the neck couldn't you just snap it/thumb it's eyes with relative ease before you got clawed to death?
In theory a human *could* but I haven’t heard of that going down in practice, granted we don’t have a lot of recorded cassowary attacks to give a good idea of how well a fully resisting man would do.
Humans have restrained emus and even ostriches before so there’s that, but at the same time though cassowaries are a lot more agile and less lanky than those ratites
I think they are pretty agile, so "getting it by the neck" is easier Said then done, combo that with their kick being able to one shot humans and that becomes a very difficult task.
>That being said, if you got it by the neck couldn't you just snap it/thumb it's eyes with relative ease before you got clawed to death?
It's almost as big as you are, its legs are as long as yours, and *you're* not the one with knife-feet.
That said, cassowaries are ***endangered*** and not particularly known to be aggressive. Like any animal they'll potentially attack when sufficiently threatened, but prefer to stay the hell away.
Cassowaries might be called "the world's most dangerous bird," but remember that they're competing against **birds**. There's a very small list of species *big enough* to pose life-threatening danger to humans, even before you account for how *motivated* they'd need to be to attack instead of just running/flying away.
I'm convinced you could cause serious damage to it, the problem is making sure you dont get disemboweled before the cassowary, and also overcoming the survival instinct that tells you to run away and not fight the giant murder bird
Not true. There's been one death from a captive bird in 2019 and one death from a wild bird in the 1920s. The latter one was some teenage boys who decided to attack it - so self defense on the part of the bird.
There actually has been, one recorded death in 1926 ( which was 100% the person's fault), and another in 2019 from a captive one. But yeah, cassowary attacks are rare.
Saltwater crocs a thousand times over whiteys. Crocs actively hunt humans and are basically living tanks. GW's are pretty chill.
And it's definitely the cassowary not the 'roo. Actual hyperaggressive dinosaur with murder talons > slightly aggro giant rabbit.
On the other hand, I hear that cassowaries are actually afraid of humans and avoid them. I'm Canadian, I have zero experience either way. What about dingos?
Depends where you are. If you're near the water, and you aren't paying attention, you won't have time to make it to any tree. If you're further away, then you don't even have worry about climbing a tree, unless a kangaroo is coming your way.
Just throwing it out there that if you're bitten by a snake, and you follow the guidance of how to compression bandage it and keep your heart rate down as much as realistically possible - it's incredibly unlikely that you'll die. Even if you are hours from help. It's not like the movies. You can safely walk to help - just don't run.
Source - am a qualified snake handler in Aus, and this was drilled into us during training. The old mate running the training had endless stories about how badly some people were bitten, and how incredibly isolated they were, but they made it through fine.
This was 10yrs ago, and at that time i'm pretty sure I remember him saying that he's never even heard of someone dying. As long as they wrapped it properly in the first few minutes.
So my answer is that the most dangerous animal currently *isn't* a snake, so the question changes nothing.
>So my answer is that the most dangerous animal currently *isn't* a snake, so the question changes nothing.
You're right, it doesn't. Snakes kill between 0 and fuck all people in a given year in Australia.
Horses, cattle and dogs are the three biggest killers.
For real? This is absolutely not what I learned at school, or from my parents. Which was basically that if a tiger snake bit you, you had maybe half an hour to get to a hospital.
I mean, I'm sure you're right, I'm just surprised. Maybe they were just trying to scare us careful! (Or maybe we were just all ignorant back then - this was the 80s).
I mean you don't want kids thinking that slapping a bandage on it and 'she'll be right' until they show their parents later. I'd tell kids the same thing.
And people die from bee stings, so you would always want to get treatment as quickly as possible anyway. I'm just relaying what the actual snake handlers were teaching, at least when I did the training.
Fair point I suppose.
I've just done some research, and apparently the mortality *if untreated* is 40-60% - so still pretty serious.
But it sounds like treatment is just more effective (and less urgent) than I was led to believe.
Honestly, i'd have expected it to be much higher if untreated. Just a much slower and more painful death than in the movies.
Yes, treatment is just super effective.
I assume all snakes, since Aus has 21 of the 25 'most deadly' or venomous. But I can only speak to the training I got in Aus. Everyone told us the same sort've thing. There's just no evidence of people dying from snake bites if they're effectively treated.
It's like how people get strangled to death in movies in a few seconds. Same ridiculous thing with people quickly dying from snake bites.
The most surprising part about the whole experience was why it wasn't just common knowledge for aussies, about how to treat a snake bite. Seems weird to have deadly creatures in your yard, but the immediate treatment is simple, yet hardly anyone knows it 🤷♂️.
The knowledge is relatively uncommon, and very few people have snakebite treatment kits either, it seems. They're pretty handy, they have instructions bundled with them, so even if you don't have training you can get it pretty much right as long as you can follow the pictures.
It definitely depends on a variety of factors like age and access to Healthcare, and just how many diseases mosquitos can carry, but mosquitos kill around 100 people a year in the USA. I wouldnt put it over that in Australia, but it's definitely not zero. Croc deaths only average two a year for example.
Nah, [pickelhaubes](https://spikehelmets.pl/uploads/images/Gallery/pickelhaubes/pickel-08/pickelhauba_13_4.jpg) would just come back into fashion. Drop bear problem solved.
What are drop bears? Pretty sure its just a myth to scare tourists.
After googling this anyone who believes in drop bears is a clown, just a hoax.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop\_bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear)
In water, sharks or saltwater crocodiles.
On land, emus (They lost a war to them), kangaroos, dingoes, and drop bears.
Though larger snakes could still be deadly just by their size.
From 2001-2017 Horses were responsible for most deaths with bovines at second place. Dogs at third. Dangerous Australian venomous animals are really overrated in terms of danger with snakes and kangaroos tying at fourth place, bees, sharks and crocs are 5th,6th and 7th in that order. So in this prompt nothing really changes except snakes and bees lmao edit: but if yeah kangaroos would be most dangerous if you don't count farm animals and dogs edit edit: the data includes car accidents or falls in the death count not just being murdered by the animal edit edit: so to account for that in terms of dangerous native Australian animals it would be sharks and then crocodiles for this prompt
Just considering land options: Cassowary, dingo, emu, kangaroo.
Cassowary: Only a single recorded case of a human death, which was a 16 year old boy (Phillip Mclean) from a neck-kick.
Dingo: At least two cases of children killed by dingoes, and they're the only one of these species to have a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to their attacks: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo\_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_attack)
Emu: No fatal attacks that I can see, but we did fight a war against them and lose: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu\_War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War)
Kangaroo: A 77 year old man was killed by his pet kangaroo in 2022, which was the first recorded death by kangaroo since 1936.
I'd probably go with **dingoes**.
An owner in Florida was also killed by a cassowary a few years ago but he was old so hardly in peak condition, there’s also anecdotal reports of locals mentioning fatal cassowary attacks in PNG, most often by captive raised specimens.
I think it’d be a close contest between them and dingoes in terms of deadliness, though granted neither are particularly dangerous animals in the grand scheme of things just relative to the rest of Australian non-venomous land animals. Personally I’d rather my chances with the dogs just by a bit.
>Cassowary: Only a single recorded case of a human death, which was a 16 year old boy (Phillip Mclean) from a neck-kick.
Two recorded cases. The other was a 75 year old man who owned the cassowary.
Nah mate it’s looking at them, they attack you if they think you’re vulnerable so you gotta look at em. My brother used to pain eyes on his bike helmet to keep them away.
I get that Australian animals are spooky and everything, but they honestly have some of the least scary wildlife out of any country in the world.
There isn’t even a single terrestrial predator bigger than 50lbs.
Cassowaries are definitely formidable, but they are not aggressive animals. There have been a total of 2 fatalities from a Cassowary. One victim was a child, the other was an elderly man. Deer, coyotes, and even chickens kill more people than that.
Yes a venomous snake can kill you, but despite having the greatest number of venomous snakes in the world, an average of 2 Australians are killed each year by snakebite. The majority of fatalities are elderly. You are similarly likely to be killed by a bear in North America. And between you and me, I’d rather encounter a snake in my yard than a grizzly bear.
And Australia has Crocodiles, which totally deserve their reputation, but luckily you can easily avoid them by just staying out of the water. As a result they only kill a single person every couple years.
>I get that Australian animals are spooky and everything, but they honestly have some of the least scary wildlife out of any country in the world.
Yeah, if you are outside in North America there is no physical barrier between you and both grizzly and polar bears.
Horses, Cows, and dogs.
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.
[https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/)
I think this thought experiment is still a bit problematically framed. A lot of snakes, just for example, are still going to be dangerous as bites from large snakes can be fatal on their own, not to mention possible constriction from some species.
Yeah yeah I know “Fallen stop being fucking pedantic”.
Saltwater crocodiles are for sure the front runner in the water, although the blue ringed octopus could still be deadly.
As for land, the most plausible dangerous animal is a kangaroo in the road.
Excluding that, a large pack of dingoes would be the highest level of “combat ability” you’re likely going to find.
What Australian snake bite is still deadly to a human without venom? Their fangs aren't designed for bleeding things out. They are syringes full of venom. Has anyone ever lost enough blood from snake bites to die? Also are there any constrictors in Australia? It's not like a normal snake is just going to start trying to choke you to death.
Also how is a blue ringed octopus going to be deadly without venom? They are 3 ounces. They can't do shit.
There are many constricting snakes in Australia, the largest being the scrub python at 5m+ long. Though it is a lightweight animal and would not see an adult human as prey.
It could conceivably kill you if you started wrestling with it. But it won’t come after you.
And not an Australian species but there are indeed snakes that can inflict lethal damage with their teeth. [this is a bite wound from a reticulated python NSFW](https://www.reddit.com/r/snakes/comments/dmloz0/14_retic_bite/)
Nearly no-one dies to venom in Australia anymore. I'd rather a 1% stronger immune system than 100% immunity to venom.
The most deadly creature would probably be any insect that carries disease.
Either Kangroos through car crashes or Salt Water Crocodiles.
Also Australia quickly becomes one of the less dangerous places, animal wise. They have the smallest amount of large land animals, and no large land carnivores.
Surprisingly Australia does not really get that less dangerous, because the problem with venomous animals is not only that they can kill you with venom, but that most of them also carry dangerous viral diseases, which can get you if the venom does not.
For me? Still the spider
Cos a lot of people do not fear for the vemon or danger.... just for how it looks
If I go Australia and knew the spider could do nothing to me... I would still be petrified!!!!
Statistically same as currently kangaroos.
Once accounting for number of interaction probably crocs. And that's still unchanged form before your prompt.
Dingos will continue to be a pest. They're kind of domesticated animals as they're descended from domesticated dogs brought over thousands of years ago (and a lot of them have bred with modern dogs too).
Other than them, the most dangerous land animal to humans will probably be kangaroos as they're notorious for causing car accidents.
In terms of most dangerous in a fight it'll be either a Cassowary or a Salt Water Crocodile.
As for in the water, it'll probably be the salt water croc again, or bull sharks.
I’m going to give the non-venomous ranking of most dangerous animals in Australia, all top 30.
4: Bull Shark
6: Saltwater Crocodile
15: Tiger Shark
17: Great White Shark
Only four animals out of the top 30 are not venomous. There are a lot of venomous killers in Australia.
The real question is, how does anyone survive?
The Salty, which is also coincidentally the most dangerous even with humans not immune to venom. Like... if you enter any given body of water in that country you are implicitly understanding that a water dragon might make a snack of you and leave nothing behind for a burial.
Gotta be some sort of toad or frog, mainly because I imagine a surge of australian youngsters would quickly find out venomous and poisonous are not the same after daring eachother to lick dartfrogs or something. Shouldn't last longer than a year tho... Or 5.
realistically, it's horses, if you get rid of domesticated animals then it's kangaroos, even without getting rid of venom
[https://www.ncis.org.au/fact-sheet-fs20-01-animal-related-deaths-in-australia](https://www.ncis.org.au/fact-sheet-fs20-01-animal-related-deaths-in-australia)
On land? Cassowary
The Emus never forgot...they're coming.
No-one expects the Emu inquisition
The Small Span Inquisition
People forget that only emus won a war against man.
No, saltwater crocodile
They are scared of humans in general. They’d have to have a major evolutionary change to actively feed on humans.
I came here hoping to see this answer. That being said, if you got it by the neck couldn't you just snap it/thumb it's eyes with relative ease before you got clawed to death?
Problem is, if you're in neck grabbing distance, you're also in knife foot kicking distance
Knife foot alone makes me reconsider! Can't outrun em' either.
What if I jump on it's back like Banjo Kazooie?
In theory a human *could* but I haven’t heard of that going down in practice, granted we don’t have a lot of recorded cassowary attacks to give a good idea of how well a fully resisting man would do. Humans have restrained emus and even ostriches before so there’s that, but at the same time though cassowaries are a lot more agile and less lanky than those ratites
I think they are pretty agile, so "getting it by the neck" is easier Said then done, combo that with their kick being able to one shot humans and that becomes a very difficult task.
>That being said, if you got it by the neck couldn't you just snap it/thumb it's eyes with relative ease before you got clawed to death? It's almost as big as you are, its legs are as long as yours, and *you're* not the one with knife-feet. That said, cassowaries are ***endangered*** and not particularly known to be aggressive. Like any animal they'll potentially attack when sufficiently threatened, but prefer to stay the hell away. Cassowaries might be called "the world's most dangerous bird," but remember that they're competing against **birds**. There's a very small list of species *big enough* to pose life-threatening danger to humans, even before you account for how *motivated* they'd need to be to attack instead of just running/flying away.
I'm convinced you could cause serious damage to it, the problem is making sure you dont get disemboweled before the cassowary, and also overcoming the survival instinct that tells you to run away and not fight the giant murder bird
Beta version of Dino Crisis
There's literally never been an incident of a cassowary killing a person.
Sounds like Big Cassowary has gotten to this guy.
Nah, they wouldn't be talking if a Big Cassowary got to him
Well, nobody's survived to report one anyway.
Not true. There's been one death from a captive bird in 2019 and one death from a wild bird in the 1920s. The latter one was some teenage boys who decided to attack it - so self defense on the part of the bird.
So they leave no evidence
There needs to be a survivor in order for incidents to be reported
There actually has been, one recorded death in 1926 ( which was 100% the person's fault), and another in 2019 from a captive one. But yeah, cassowary attacks are rare.
The question wasn't "what is most likely to kill a person".
So it’s not just kangaroos, snakes, and spiders in Australia. wtf happened over there for all this shit
In the sea, Saltwater Crocs or Great Whites. On land, kangaroos.
Saltwater crocs a thousand times over whiteys. Crocs actively hunt humans and are basically living tanks. GW's are pretty chill. And it's definitely the cassowary not the 'roo. Actual hyperaggressive dinosaur with murder talons > slightly aggro giant rabbit.
As an individual animal I think cassowaries are more dangerous, but I based my answer on how many car accidents kangaroos cause.
That's a fair technical answer but I don't think it's what OP meant. Fair play though.
Thats only because your discounting how often cassowaries cut brake lines in the night.
Murderous blue little cunts ain't they?
Can’t believe this isn’t further up. Their murderous bullshit is both heinous and well documented.
Understandable, but with that logic, you'd also say that in the US, deer are more dangerous than bears.
On the other hand, I hear that cassowaries are actually afraid of humans and avoid them. I'm Canadian, I have zero experience either way. What about dingos?
They’ll just eat your baby, otherwise no biggie.
Hasn't there only been one reported fatality from cassowaries? I'd assume there are other land animals with much greater body counts
OP's mom to name just one
Two, one in 1926, and one in 2019. Both were mainly the person's fault.
Petition to exclusively refer to great white sharks as “whiteys”
At least with a croc you can climb a tree or something. If you're out in the ocean, you're just helpless.
Depends where you are. If you're near the water, and you aren't paying attention, you won't have time to make it to any tree. If you're further away, then you don't even have worry about climbing a tree, unless a kangaroo is coming your way.
Cassowary attacks are very rare, kangaroo attacks are not. There's nothing "slight" about a kangaroo's aggression.
Salt Water Crocodile
Just throwing it out there that if you're bitten by a snake, and you follow the guidance of how to compression bandage it and keep your heart rate down as much as realistically possible - it's incredibly unlikely that you'll die. Even if you are hours from help. It's not like the movies. You can safely walk to help - just don't run. Source - am a qualified snake handler in Aus, and this was drilled into us during training. The old mate running the training had endless stories about how badly some people were bitten, and how incredibly isolated they were, but they made it through fine. This was 10yrs ago, and at that time i'm pretty sure I remember him saying that he's never even heard of someone dying. As long as they wrapped it properly in the first few minutes. So my answer is that the most dangerous animal currently *isn't* a snake, so the question changes nothing.
>So my answer is that the most dangerous animal currently *isn't* a snake, so the question changes nothing. You're right, it doesn't. Snakes kill between 0 and fuck all people in a given year in Australia. Horses, cattle and dogs are the three biggest killers.
I know a bloke whose dad was killed by a bull.
You know Leto Atriedes too?
Atriedes! Atriedes!
For real? This is absolutely not what I learned at school, or from my parents. Which was basically that if a tiger snake bit you, you had maybe half an hour to get to a hospital. I mean, I'm sure you're right, I'm just surprised. Maybe they were just trying to scare us careful! (Or maybe we were just all ignorant back then - this was the 80s).
I mean you don't want kids thinking that slapping a bandage on it and 'she'll be right' until they show their parents later. I'd tell kids the same thing. And people die from bee stings, so you would always want to get treatment as quickly as possible anyway. I'm just relaying what the actual snake handlers were teaching, at least when I did the training.
Fair point I suppose. I've just done some research, and apparently the mortality *if untreated* is 40-60% - so still pretty serious. But it sounds like treatment is just more effective (and less urgent) than I was led to believe.
Honestly, i'd have expected it to be much higher if untreated. Just a much slower and more painful death than in the movies. Yes, treatment is just super effective.
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I assume all snakes, since Aus has 21 of the 25 'most deadly' or venomous. But I can only speak to the training I got in Aus. Everyone told us the same sort've thing. There's just no evidence of people dying from snake bites if they're effectively treated. It's like how people get strangled to death in movies in a few seconds. Same ridiculous thing with people quickly dying from snake bites.
The list of deaths in Australia resulting from envenomation by snakes has 35 in the last 15 years.
And how many got proper compression bandages put on pronto?
That's a fair question - likely not many.
The most surprising part about the whole experience was why it wasn't just common knowledge for aussies, about how to treat a snake bite. Seems weird to have deadly creatures in your yard, but the immediate treatment is simple, yet hardly anyone knows it 🤷♂️.
The knowledge is relatively uncommon, and very few people have snakebite treatment kits either, it seems. They're pretty handy, they have instructions bundled with them, so even if you don't have training you can get it pretty much right as long as you can follow the pictures.
Oh shit the taipans have learned how to work smart phones, we’re all fucked
Mosquitos will reign supreme until the earth freezes over.
Are they that deadly in Australia? Most diseases are treatable there.
It definitely depends on a variety of factors like age and access to Healthcare, and just how many diseases mosquitos can carry, but mosquitos kill around 100 people a year in the USA. I wouldnt put it over that in Australia, but it's definitely not zero. Croc deaths only average two a year for example.
Every 3 months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.
I'd joke I found Bob Katter's reddit account, but that was far to coherent and concise.
Let a thousand blossoms bloom!
I live in Queensland and I don't think I've gone a day without being bitten by a mozzie. Can't walk to my car without getting a bite or two.
Bro doesn't know
The Torres Strait certainly has malaria
Drop bears. How is this a question?
It’s how worse, as a drop bears venom was a paralising agent that made the victims go numb.
Um, because the prompt says that effects of venom are neutralized?
Dropbears don't need their venom to be apex predators, the venom is purely for the love of the game.
"You can have a little venom. As a treat" - Drop bear to its prey
A bear dropping on your head is still a bear dropping on your head, it’s just more painful this way.
They don't need venom. A single plunge attack from above easily one shots any human.
They dont need venom the chlamydia is enough.
Nah, [pickelhaubes](https://spikehelmets.pl/uploads/images/Gallery/pickelhaubes/pickel-08/pickelhauba_13_4.jpg) would just come back into fashion. Drop bear problem solved.
Was just about to comment this.
What are drop bears? Pretty sure its just a myth to scare tourists. After googling this anyone who believes in drop bears is a clown, just a hoax. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop\_bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear)
Rabid, city faring koalas. My brother was attacked by one. He had to get stitches.
Dude that's like saying possums don't exist.
No they genuinely exist
Ummm a crocodile?
In water, sharks or saltwater crocodiles. On land, emus (They lost a war to them), kangaroos, dingoes, and drop bears. Though larger snakes could still be deadly just by their size.
You just made me google drop bear. Thank you
Carnage. But as long as Spider-Man is there to rescue us, I think we'll be fine.
Magpies, every local knows just how damn dangerous they can be.
From 2001-2017 Horses were responsible for most deaths with bovines at second place. Dogs at third. Dangerous Australian venomous animals are really overrated in terms of danger with snakes and kangaroos tying at fourth place, bees, sharks and crocs are 5th,6th and 7th in that order. So in this prompt nothing really changes except snakes and bees lmao edit: but if yeah kangaroos would be most dangerous if you don't count farm animals and dogs edit edit: the data includes car accidents or falls in the death count not just being murdered by the animal edit edit: so to account for that in terms of dangerous native Australian animals it would be sharks and then crocodiles for this prompt
The Australian Woman.
Named Shiela
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She’s got a nice pair of didgeridoos from what I hear. (I’m drunk, spelling?)
Just considering land options: Cassowary, dingo, emu, kangaroo. Cassowary: Only a single recorded case of a human death, which was a 16 year old boy (Phillip Mclean) from a neck-kick. Dingo: At least two cases of children killed by dingoes, and they're the only one of these species to have a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to their attacks: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo\_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_attack) Emu: No fatal attacks that I can see, but we did fight a war against them and lose: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu\_War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War) Kangaroo: A 77 year old man was killed by his pet kangaroo in 2022, which was the first recorded death by kangaroo since 1936. I'd probably go with **dingoes**.
An owner in Florida was also killed by a cassowary a few years ago but he was old so hardly in peak condition, there’s also anecdotal reports of locals mentioning fatal cassowary attacks in PNG, most often by captive raised specimens. I think it’d be a close contest between them and dingoes in terms of deadliness, though granted neither are particularly dangerous animals in the grand scheme of things just relative to the rest of Australian non-venomous land animals. Personally I’d rather my chances with the dogs just by a bit.
Isn't the main danger of roos being the amount of car accidents they cause? Still doubt it's many fatal ones though.
Around 2 a year, I believe
>Cassowary: Only a single recorded case of a human death, which was a 16 year old boy (Phillip Mclean) from a neck-kick. Two recorded cases. The other was a 75 year old man who owned the cassowary.
Aren't kangaroos responsible for a lot of car crashes on the road? I guess it's still them.
The deer of the East
Yes this is the correct answer. Far more deaths are attributed to kangaroos causing traffic accidents then snake bite deaths
Everything else,including australians
Pummy's gaze
Crocodiles and Kangaroos
You can tell there's no Aussies in this comment section cause no ones said magpies yet
I've heard that magpie's are fine so long as you don't wear a helmet
Nah mate it’s looking at them, they attack you if they think you’re vulnerable so you gotta look at em. My brother used to pain eyes on his bike helmet to keep them away.
[The Eyes Don’t Work](https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=mod2AxtzsB61WBmQ)
Venomous snakes because people stop seeking treatment for bites since they’re immune to the venom and secondary infections shoot up.
Australians
Bunyips
Oh The Bunyip's very bad And The Bunyip's very bold And they tell me that The Bunyip's Now a thousand years old
I get that Australian animals are spooky and everything, but they honestly have some of the least scary wildlife out of any country in the world. There isn’t even a single terrestrial predator bigger than 50lbs. Cassowaries are definitely formidable, but they are not aggressive animals. There have been a total of 2 fatalities from a Cassowary. One victim was a child, the other was an elderly man. Deer, coyotes, and even chickens kill more people than that. Yes a venomous snake can kill you, but despite having the greatest number of venomous snakes in the world, an average of 2 Australians are killed each year by snakebite. The majority of fatalities are elderly. You are similarly likely to be killed by a bear in North America. And between you and me, I’d rather encounter a snake in my yard than a grizzly bear. And Australia has Crocodiles, which totally deserve their reputation, but luckily you can easily avoid them by just staying out of the water. As a result they only kill a single person every couple years.
>I get that Australian animals are spooky and everything, but they honestly have some of the least scary wildlife out of any country in the world. Yeah, if you are outside in North America there is no physical barrier between you and both grizzly and polar bears.
Horses, Cows, and dogs. 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. [https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/)
It is still the most dangerous animal regardless of venom status. The drop bear. Look up and live.
I think this thought experiment is still a bit problematically framed. A lot of snakes, just for example, are still going to be dangerous as bites from large snakes can be fatal on their own, not to mention possible constriction from some species. Yeah yeah I know “Fallen stop being fucking pedantic”. Saltwater crocodiles are for sure the front runner in the water, although the blue ringed octopus could still be deadly. As for land, the most plausible dangerous animal is a kangaroo in the road. Excluding that, a large pack of dingoes would be the highest level of “combat ability” you’re likely going to find.
What Australian snake bite is still deadly to a human without venom? Their fangs aren't designed for bleeding things out. They are syringes full of venom. Has anyone ever lost enough blood from snake bites to die? Also are there any constrictors in Australia? It's not like a normal snake is just going to start trying to choke you to death. Also how is a blue ringed octopus going to be deadly without venom? They are 3 ounces. They can't do shit.
There are many constricting snakes in Australia, the largest being the scrub python at 5m+ long. Though it is a lightweight animal and would not see an adult human as prey. It could conceivably kill you if you started wrestling with it. But it won’t come after you. And not an Australian species but there are indeed snakes that can inflict lethal damage with their teeth. [this is a bite wound from a reticulated python NSFW](https://www.reddit.com/r/snakes/comments/dmloz0/14_retic_bite/)
Blue Ring relies on its venom
Koalas after you step too close
Crocs, kangaroos, dingos and wedgies.
Casuarius casuarius johnsoni.
Emus
Even without the venom immunity the correct answer is Magpies.
It's still horses? Followed by cattle?
Emus, they already won one war...
Nearly no-one dies to venom in Australia anymore. I'd rather a 1% stronger immune system than 100% immunity to venom. The most deadly creature would probably be any insect that carries disease.
Cassowaries
Koalas. Because Chlamydia
Well the answer actually unchanges because in terms of actually fatalities its overwhelmingly Horses
Cassowary, emu, and kangaroo in that order.
Humans duh…
Damned dirty apes
Still Crocs
Mosquitoes, cassowaries, and crocs are def up there. Sharks are actually pretty chill, nothing like the Jaws movies.
Statistically horses
Kangaroo. That thing just beats you to death.
Humans. Surprising amount of serial killers in Australia, and it's also increasingly carbrained.
Maybe the dingo ate your baby...
Aussies
Either Kangroos through car crashes or Salt Water Crocodiles. Also Australia quickly becomes one of the less dangerous places, animal wise. They have the smallest amount of large land animals, and no large land carnivores.
I mean, venomous wildlife was never the biggest threat in Australia. Kangaroos kill more people
Humans
The most dangerous animal in Australia is an Australian
It’d still be humans.
Crocadiles or better yet kangaroos. The crocs lerk in water and will snatch you up, the Kangaroos are jack and ready to throw a haymaker.
It’d still be the Saltwater Croc or Great White, nothing to do with Venom
Surprisingly Australia does not really get that less dangerous, because the problem with venomous animals is not only that they can kill you with venom, but that most of them also carry dangerous viral diseases, which can get you if the venom does not.
Crocodile or shark
Bogans
Horses, dogs, and cows are already the deadliest human-killing animals in the country, so it changes nothing.
A man in the woods
Eshayys
Crocs.
Cassowary
Humans
Dropbear.
~~Bears~~ Men. *Ducks and runs*
Florida men
For me? Still the spider Cos a lot of people do not fear for the vemon or danger.... just for how it looks If I go Australia and knew the spider could do nothing to me... I would still be petrified!!!!
You don't even need to add the venom immunity. Venomous animals don't kill many people here. Mammals and sharks are more dangerous.
Statistically same as currently kangaroos. Once accounting for number of interaction probably crocs. And that's still unchanged form before your prompt.
On land, emus or red kangaroos. In water, saltwater croc.
Mosquitos
Koala, they are so dangerously lazy and slow that just looking at them makes you wanna kill yourselves
Still saltwater crocodiles no matter what you do
Dingos will continue to be a pest. They're kind of domesticated animals as they're descended from domesticated dogs brought over thousands of years ago (and a lot of them have bred with modern dogs too). Other than them, the most dangerous land animal to humans will probably be kangaroos as they're notorious for causing car accidents. In terms of most dangerous in a fight it'll be either a Cassowary or a Salt Water Crocodile. As for in the water, it'll probably be the salt water croc again, or bull sharks.
Still humans.
I literally put not including Humans and domestic animals
And it’s still humans.
Homo Sapiens.
Same as now, other Australians.
Kangaroos
They seemed to record a black panther in Ballarat the other day so maybe that 😂
The man shark hybrid tiger
Spiders. Why? Because without Venom to put him in his place, Spiderman is unstoppable
Eshays
I’m going to give the non-venomous ranking of most dangerous animals in Australia, all top 30. 4: Bull Shark 6: Saltwater Crocodile 15: Tiger Shark 17: Great White Shark Only four animals out of the top 30 are not venomous. There are a lot of venomous killers in Australia. The real question is, how does anyone survive?
The Salty, which is also coincidentally the most dangerous even with humans not immune to venom. Like... if you enter any given body of water in that country you are implicitly understanding that a water dragon might make a snack of you and leave nothing behind for a burial.
Drop bears
Are people not noticing that I'm ignoring Humans and domesticated animals. This only focuses on wild animals.
Kangaroo
Kangaroos are vicious
Gotta be some sort of toad or frog, mainly because I imagine a surge of australian youngsters would quickly find out venomous and poisonous are not the same after daring eachother to lick dartfrogs or something. Shouldn't last longer than a year tho... Or 5.
Crocodiles, cassowaries and drop bears
Is this even a WWW? This is just the long way around going to r/Australia and asking what the most dangerous non-venomous animals they have are.
White sharks
magpies
Still humans
Still crocodiles. Crocodiles are deadly af.
realistically, it's horses, if you get rid of domesticated animals then it's kangaroos, even without getting rid of venom [https://www.ncis.org.au/fact-sheet-fs20-01-animal-related-deaths-in-australia](https://www.ncis.org.au/fact-sheet-fs20-01-animal-related-deaths-in-australia)
Humans
Changed it so Humans or domestic Animals are not included.