... your boss sends an all-staff email warning people to be wary of snakes when going outside to eat lunch.
Sigh.
Sigh.
What have you poor people done to deserve all that poison?
He describes the sting as "Initially like being attacked by wasps, then you get whitening and swelling at the site, and then if it's really bad you get sweating - liquid just drips out of your skin."
...The hairs can become embedded in the skin, which can lead to long-term pain and sensitivity - there are many accounts of people suffering for months from a sting.
The Gympie-Gympie is just as capable of stinging when its leaves are dead. Hugh says even people looking at specimens in a collection can be stung - the toxin in the hairs is sealed off as it would be in a little glass vial, and seems unaffected by age.
Then, come winter, the gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Y'know if you shipped in some gorillas that feed exclusively on snakes you'd be golden. Then, come winter, the gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Other than that, though...
On the ferry commuting to work yesterday:
...and on the way home last night:
Twenty years later, I still feel like this is a giant holiday.
Is there any flora or fauna in Australia that won't eff you up in some horrible way? Because I seriously wonder why humans decided to settle there in the first place. It'd probably be easier and safer to colonize Antarctica.
Totally. That's your best bet by far. Stay well clear of Australia. Get to Antarctica as soon as you can. Don't give up -- stay there fifty years if you have to!Is there any flora or fauna in Australia that won't eff you up in some horrible way? Because I seriously wonder why humans decided to settle there in the first place. It'd probably be easier and safer to colonize Antarctica.
I'm not sure grey kangaroos are entirely harmless.