Great Southern Lands (Australia & NZ...)

[wease]

That bastard Jaws could’ve taken care of business a lot faster if he had that move in his arsenal.

[simple schoolboy]

[spike]

Spent a couple hours at the beach with the kid, until a shark spotting was reported. Pretty standard stuff here.

I guess this land lubber can now say he’s swum in shark infested waters.

[spike]

Around where we’re staying atm, Aussie whalers used to use killer whales to herd/hunt baleen whales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_(orca)

[Higgs]

Mind your step.



And you are sooo wrong

Crocs are bitches. Even zebras smoke crocs.

[Ello Sailor]

I've seen a zebra nibble a croc to death! There are photos!

Crocs are real tough guys when it comes to eating pathetic humans and Fox terriers, but they ain't shit in the grand scheme of things.

[Ello Sailor]

Jks I've got nothing but love for the croc community.

[Higgs]

This is from about 30 years ago but still pretty much fingers the pulse of how our Australian identity is so tied to our national anthem.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Any Mason Cox fans in here?

[Higgs]

Any Mason Cox fans in here?

I used to be a Collingwood fan pre-87 when the Eagles started in the AFL, so still have a soft spot for them. Mason Cox was instrumental in getting the Pies over Richmond in the 2018 preliminary final, which is really his biggest claim to fame.

I enjoy the swagger he brings to AFL when he gets a game these days. Collingwood are the form team of the comp at the moment.

[spike]

Any Mason Cox fans in here?

THE BIG YANK

[E.H. Ruddock]

I didn't know anything about him until last night. 60 minutes featured a story about him and it was very interesting. Also interesting to hear a little bit of an Aussie accent when he speaks.

[LetMeSleep]

Seriously, this place is fucked.



https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... al-habitat

[LetMeSleep]

Rare albino echidna.

[bart]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65446354.amp

Missing Australian fisherman's body found in crocodile

3 May 2023

The remains of an Australian man who vanished while fishing with friends have been found inside a crocodile.

Kevin Darmody, 65, was last seen at Kennedy's Bend - a well-known saltwater crocodile habitat in a remote part of northern Queensland - on Saturday.

After a two-day search of the area, police euthanised two large crocodiles and found human body parts.

Police said it was a "tragic ending" for Mr Darmody. A formal identification process will be carried out.

Mr Darmody was an experienced fisherman and a well-known member of the community in Cape York.

The two crocodiles, which measured 4.1m (13.4 ft) and 2.8m in length, were shot dead on Monday about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) from where he was last seen.

Human remains were found inside only one of the reptiles, but wildlife officers believe both were involved in the incident.

The fishermen with Mr Darmody at the time did not see the attack, but reported hearing him yell, followed by a loud splash.

"I raced down… but there was no sign of him, just his thongs [flip-flops] on the bank and nothing else," his friend John Peiti told the Cape York Weekly.

Crocodiles are common in Australia's tropical north, but attacks are rare. Mr Darmody's death is just the 13th fatal attack in Queensland since record-keeping began in 1985.

A fisherman was killed by a crocodile in similar circumstances on Queensland's Hinchinbrook Island in 2021, and there were also fatal attacks in the state's far north in 2017 and 2016.

Since a ban on hunting in 1974, Queensland's crocodile population has rebounded from a low of some 5,000 animals to around 30,000 today.

A 2019 report suggested an average of 1.7 adult crocs living in each kilometre of river surveyed.

Under Queensland's management programme, "problem crocodiles" are removed from areas where they threaten public safety and, in rare instances, euthanised.

Those numbers are dwarfed by Australia's Northern Territory (NT), which is home to the world's largest wild crocodile population of some 100,000 reptiles.

Despite publicity campaigns to be "crocwise" around rivers, there was an average of 1-2 deaths from crocodile attacks in the Territory each year from 2005, but none have occurred since 2018.

[spike]

Crikey

[Higgs]

I saw that on Redit and replied to a comment someone made regarding what wankers us human folk were for killing the 2 crocs. I'm Sirav33, AITA?

[wease]

I saw that on Redit and replied to a comment someone made regarding what wankers us human folk were for killing the 2 crocs. I'm Sirav33, AITA?

What a fuckstick

[Higgs]

Well this is confusing.

[LetMeSleep]