Unfortunately, Australia isn’t entirely populated just by friendly locals, cool kangaroos, and cute koalas. The Land Down Under sometimes seems like the most dangerous country on the planet and should be renamed the Land of Nope.
The country largely owes its reputation to its ruthless natural hazards, the dangerous animals that live there, and all the scary things that want to make us yell ‘nope!’ and run away faster than the speed of sound in the opposite direction.
Bored Panda created a list of all the dangers lurking in the Land Down Under to show you just how scary animals in Australia can be. Keep scrolling, share with friends, and upvote your favorite dangerous animals in Australia!
#1 Roofhanger. Suspended Grey Headed Flying Fox, A Megabat Native To Australia
Batwing is fine and dandy. He dried off and flew away as soon as it was night time. He was not sick, just wet.
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#2 Lizards In Australia
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#3 A Gang Of Robber Crabs Invade A Family Picnic In Australia
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#4 Believe It Or Not, This Is One Of The Least Dangerous Spiders We Have In Australia
This is the huntsman spider, a common friend to be found in houses and garden across Australia. He’s harmless really, don’t let his large size intimidate you. Huntsmen won’t bite humans unless provoked, are not venomous and are actually handy to have around the place, he’ll use his speed and agility to keep your cockroach population under control.
Think of the huntsman as a handy pet. Respect his space, let him do his job and he’ll look after you well.
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#5 Meanwhile In Australia
An olive python (Liasis olivaceus), western Australia’s largest python, having a feed on an Australian freshwater crocodile (crocodylus Johnstoni).
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#6 Araucaria Pine Cone, It’s Been Reported To Kill People When Falling
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#7 Do You Even Lift Bro?
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#8 Ladies And Gentlemen, The Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus Porosus)
I’m from Darwin, Australia and our rivers here are full of these monstrosities. This guy here is nicknamed Nifty, and he is about 6m long.
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#9 Honey, There Is A Kid On Our Bug…
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#10 Spider Frost. Rural Victoria, Australia
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#11 This Is How Australians Ensure Their Electricity Meter Doesn’t Get Read
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#12 Meanwhile, In Australia
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#13 Toads Riding On A Python
68mm just fell in the last hour at Kununurra. Flushed all the cane toads out of my brothers dam. Some of them took the easy way out – hitching a ride on the back of a 3.5m python.
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#14 Dead Whale Filled With Gas, On The Brink Of Exploding In Bunbury Yesterday
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#15 This Giant, Hot Pink Slug Is Only Found In A Single, Isolated Forest On An Extinct Volcano In Australia
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#16 You Know You’re In Australia When Frogs Eat Snakes
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#17 Meanwhile In Australia
#18 March Of The Hairy Caterpillars
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#19 A Massive Earthworm Found In Queensland, Australia
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#20 Filling Up Your Fuel Tank In Australia? Yep That’ll Try And Kill You Too
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#21 Mother And Girlfriend Found This On The Beach Today
This was found in Broome, Western Australia and looks like an anemone. More specifically, Dofleinia armata, the armed anemone. Also called the striped anemone. It is considered extremely dangerous as it can inflict painful stings that take months to heal.
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#22 Walked Up On The Back Of This Sign While Hiking In Australia…
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#23 Typical Road-Side Ditch In Australia
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#24 Why You Gotta Always “Check Your Shoes” In Australia
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#25 Aussie Mom Finds World’s Second Most Poisonous Snake Hiding In Her Kid’s Lunch Box
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#26 Australia. Where Even The Hail Can Kill You
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#27 In Australia Everything Is Trying To Kill You. Even Your Ceiling Lamp
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#28 This Is Why You Always Have To Check The Toilet In Australia
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#29 Blue-Ringed Octopus (Highly Venomous) On Hand
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#30 Welcome To Australia Where Insects Are The Size Of A Small Mammal
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#31 So My Friend Found This On Her Back Door. Only In Australia Right?
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#32 Welcome To Australia
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#33 Damn Nature You Scary
Picture of a termite mound in the northern territory of Australia, termites build the tallest structures out of any of the creatures on Earth. Humans would have to build something 10km (6.2 miles for those not on the metric system) tall to equal the scale of size of person to building. Termite mounds are also stronger than cement.
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#34 I’m Not Going Into The Kitchen Today! Ask Him To Make You Something
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#35 A Friend Of Mine Left For A Holiday In Australia Some Weeks Ago. I Asked Him How Things Were. He Send Me This Picture With The Reply “The Things I’ve Seen..”
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#36 Welcome To Australia, Where Frogs Eat Snakes
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#37 The Net Casting Spider (Ogre Faced Spider) Hang Upside Down With A Net Made Of Their Silk Waiting For Their Prey To Walk Underneath Them
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#38 The Flies Are Much Worse Than The Spiders In Australia
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#39 A Pic A Mate Took Last Night. Awesome Spidley. South East Queensland, Australia
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#40 Every Winter Black Portuguese Millipedes Invade The South Of Western Australia
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#41 A Whole Lot Of Pain. Thousands Of Portugese Man O War Jellyfish Washed Up On A Beach In Australia
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#42 In Australia, Snakes Need A Police Escort
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#43 Welcome To Australia
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#44 Trying To Catch A Mouse In Australia
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#45 Australia
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#46 Australia
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#47 Aussie Hitchhiker
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#48 Typical Workplace Hazard – Australia
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#49 In Australia, Even Our Crocodile, Jellyfish, Arachnid – Free Pond Are Deadly
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#50 Found This Pile Of Nope While On Holiday In Australia
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#51 Bees Living On A BBQ In Australia
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#52 Found On The 16th Hole, Fraser Lakes Golf Course Australia
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#53 In Australia, This Is Why We Check Our Shoes
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#54 In Australia, Hornets Kill Spiders The Size Of Your Hand And Then Drag Them Across Ones Backyard. Twice In 24 Hours
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#55 Phellus Piliferus From Western Australia
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#56 What’s That? A Tribe Of Newly Hatched Friggin’ Baby Spiders That’s What
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#57 I Need A Whole Bunch Of People To Tell Me That This Isn’t True. Right Now
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#58 A Huge Toad Being Held Without Any Camera Trickery
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#59 Something You Don’t Want To Meet In The Deep – Lizard Fish (Bathysaurus Ferox)
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#60 It’s Pretty And From Australia, So Must Be Deadly. But Actually This One Is Almost Harmless
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#61 A ‘Mysterious’ And Unknown Species Of Jellyfish That Washed Up On The Shore Of Tasmania, Australia
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#62 I Have A Feeling Today Isn’t The Best Day To Go For A Swim. (Newcastle Beach, Australia)
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#63 Legless Lizard Found In South East Queensland Australia
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#64 You Know It’s Summer In Australia When These 8 Handy Spooky Boiz Come To Visit
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#65 Spider Catching A Snake In Western Australia. The Snake Lost
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#66 So My Friend Just Had A Shower Visitor
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#67 Found This Guy Trying To Sneak His Way Into My Room
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#68 Meanwhile In Australia – Horrors Under The Bed
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#69 This Is Why You Don’t Leave Your Shoes Outside In Australia
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#70 This Snake Got Into My Friends Bird Cage And Ate Their Parrot, Then Was Too Fat To Get Out (Australia)
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#71 This Is Why We Check Our Shoes Before Putting Them On In Australia
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#72 The Reason Aussie’s Wear Thongs (Flipflops)
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#73 My Little Friends
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#74 This Spider In Australia
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#75 We Built A Nesting Box For Some Local Kookas And This Little Monster Was The Result
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