Saeviomagy
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Krieg said:
They don't sound like ants to me...
Killer Kangaroos!
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They don't sound like ants to me...
green slime
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Sounds like their backyard had an infestation of fleas, and she was pulling your leg.
Umbra
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Saeviomagy said:
The Australian ABC showed a David Attenborough narrated doco called Killer Ants in January. The Tasmanian version of jumping ants are one of the most aggressive and deadly in the world. Thank god they don't swarm!
Here's a blurb about it I found someone else has written: http://www.echoside.net/journal/2003/december/120403.html
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Snoweel
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Heh.
This thread is turning into an Aussies-only injoke...
No, they are.
Known collectively as Hoppy Joes, Jack Jumpers, Meat Ants and Bulldog Ants, they not only have huge jaws and a sting on the end of their tail, but they are aggressive and they jump. Not the 2 and a half metres in the air that Krieg is erroneously remembering through the haze of terror he experienced on his trip to Oz, but they can jump about 6 inches horizontally.
This thread is turning into an Aussies-only injoke...
Saeviomagy said:
No, they are.
Known collectively as Hoppy Joes, Jack Jumpers, Meat Ants and Bulldog Ants, they not only have huge jaws and a sting on the end of their tail, but they are aggressive and they jump. Not the 2 and a half metres in the air that Krieg is erroneously remembering through the haze of terror he experienced on his trip to Oz, but they can jump about 6 inches horizontally.
Krieg
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Umm...2 1/2 Meters?!Snoweel said:
I said 12 to 18 inches.
There were a couple that came up to about my knee at the apex of their jump. I am pretty certain my knees aren't 8 feet off the ground.
Also it wasn't so much terror as a feeling of "what in the hell is wrong with you people living in a country with critters like this?!"
I am sure she felt the same way when she visited my great grandmother in West Virignia. My great grandmother would work in her garden & talk to the black bear that would amble out of the tree line to sit and watch her every morning. lol
Slife
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Beaches? What about the box jellyfish? Jelly-fishlike organisms, able to swim at 30 MPH, incredibly poisonous stinging and transparency. And they have four eyes. What's not to like?
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/2_1box.htm
According to another source, there could be dozens more species that haven't been discovered yet, which may be more poisonous.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/2_1box.htm
According to another source, there could be dozens more species that haven't been discovered yet, which may be more poisonous.
Snoweel said:
Sorry, but it's too early in the morning for me to pass up straight lines. "That usage displays an ignorance of three languages".
'Octopus' is from the Greek, and its native plural is 'octopodes'. 'Octopi' would be it's plural in Latin, but it isn't Latin (at least not originally): and we aren't speaking Latin, we're speaking English. Use 'octopuses', unless you speak Classical Greek.
{Among the many fearsome beasts ranging Australia is Gorilla gorilla pedantii, the great silver-backed pedant. This territorial terror jumps on InterNet message-forum posters from a bed in Canberra and twists their heads off with unwarranted erudition. You have been victimised.}
Andre La Roche
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Personally, I'm just waiting for these kangaroos to start pulling out machine guns...
green slime
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Andre La Roche said:
Nah, not gonna happen mate. Wouldn't be fair dinkum.
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