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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1644814" data-attributes="member: 7884">You mean, other than the fact we have the best beaches in the world, the best weather in the world, the best food in the world, and we punch so far above our weight in any field of human endeavour we deign to engage in we'd make any eugenicist proud (but we're too modest to boast about it)?The thing about dangerous Australian animals is that you learn from a very early age the simple rules of avoiding them - like I assume Canadians learn the rules of how to behave around bears, for example.  Maybe I'm atypical, but I was taught to identify native fauna quite young, and how to handle them so's to avoid being bitten/stung etc..  Even in Australia's largest cities you're only ever a few hundred metres from a bit of parkland/reserve/beach complete with spiders, snakes and poisonous octopi.  There are also some really simple rules, like don't stick your hand anywhere you haven't looked before, unless you're wearing leather gloves, and don't surf where the seagulls are swarming or next to the colony of breeding seals...  I can also identify, from 50 metres away, any of the three species of eucalypt in which drop bears can be found, and am usually quite happy to take photos of tourists standing under said trees.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>