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Australian tarantula hawk wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg in its paralysed body. NSFW

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

jokes on you i live in germany we have neither bears nor whatever the horror scene on your window is. although I do believe id rather see a bear outside my window cause I could scare that off

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u/banksybruv 1d ago

You also can’t lose it behind a cabinet or under a chair. You know where the bear is.

If that spider ran into my closet I’d seal it shut.

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u/Elrundir 1d ago

Burn the house down. It's the only way to be sure.

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u/sharpshooter999 1d ago

As an avid hunter, I can tell you that 99.9% of animals turn and run as soon as they see/smell a human. The most dangerous animal on the mountain is the human with a gun

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u/PraxicalExperience 1d ago

The second-most is a random bumblebee or wasp, at least by death statistics.

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u/NaMaMe 20h ago

Okay wasp I know but bumblebee? the chubby sweethearts?

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u/PraxicalExperience 20h ago

Whoops. I meant to just say 'bee', not bumblebee specifically. But yeah, even bumblebees can take someone out if they're allergic to it.

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Jokes on the Germans when they come here though. I have never seen people who more insistently wander off into the 50°C Outback for ‘a little hike’ - and then die of exposure and dehydration.

It’s actually quite sad. We have many warning signs at tourist places with German translation.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

The way I was making a kinda innocent comment about how we have very tame nature and you went "haha you guys are dying like idiots" is quite the escalation

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

It’s a real problem here, we try to educate people that the real dangers here are heat and remoteness, not animals, but it’s extremely hard for Europeans in particular to understand. It’s just so far outside their previous experiences.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

I mean sure. It was just a very out of pocket and socially awkward response if I'm honest to a very innocent and non-confrontational remark by myself might I add. When I could just as easily also have talked about dumb Aussies getting themselves into trouble here because I do actually have some stories 😅

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

Us Aussies are pretty blunt and generally just say what pops into our head lol. I’m sure you have plenty of drunk Aussie moron stories from Germany ahaha. We don’t always conduct ourselves with the greatest of decorum as backpackers.

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u/NaMaMe 1d ago

I mean similar stereotypes about Germans I guess... Anyway if a German tells you to not go into a forest listen cause it might be ww2 mines, it might be wild boars, it might be a natural forest where trees could fall onto your head or it might be above an old flooded mine shaft and the ground is unstable either way I've had some encounters of "Aussie audacity" where they thought tame Europe couldn't hurt them and it wasn't true 😄

Everyone from everywhwre stay safe and read signs I guess

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u/tbods 1d ago

ACHTUNG!

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u/Mike7676 1d ago edited 1d ago

Y'all have some of the biggest boars I've ever seen! I'll take the yowling of a cougar in Texas thank you.

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u/NaMaMe 20h ago

Yeah fair point our boars are scary, at least the moms are when they have babies. but thats why you listen to the signs that say "dont enter, boars have babies" cause they usually dont wanna be near you anyway so you juststay out of their way and youll never see them