Many friends who have not been to Australia have seen many articles and videos of poisonous snakes and spiders everywhere in Australia on the Internet, in fact, these are partial generalizations, but this is not the case. I saw that many friends on the Internet who planned to travel and study to Australia were worried about poisonous snakes and poisonous spiders, so I spent a few days searching for a lot of relevant information, and licked my face to ask a friend of a friend who had studied in Australia (I felt a little thick-skinned). I came to the conclusion that there are many venomous snakes and spiders in Australia, but they do not occur in places where people are concentrated.
Australia is a very large area, in such a vast land live a lot of magical and toxic creatures, but the scope of human activities in the entire Australian continent is only a very small and small place, Australia has a small population, so rare things are rare, sometimes fart big things can be on our simple Chinese net hot spots, watched a few times Australian poisonous snake venom spider news was biased is normal. I used to think the same way.
What we see on the web is this
Poisonous snakes visit outside the window
Spider in the corner
But, in reality, it is like this
Warning signs infested with poisonous snakes
Spiders in the wild
There is no denying that there are many species of venomous snakes in Australia. These include: the inland taipan snake, which is mainly found near the Victoria Desert in central Australia. The eastern cobra is found in north-central Australia, eastern Australia and New Guinea. The most widely distributed brown Iao snake is the most widely distributed venomous snake in Australia, distributed throughout the Australian continent. There are also eastern tiger snakes, hook-nosed sea snakes, red-bellied black snakes, dead snakes, lowland copperhead snakes, small-eyed poisonous snakes, brown snakes, western brown snakes, etc., these poisonous snakes have strong toxicity, if bitten by them, must be injected with serum in a short time, otherwise there is a fear of life.
Let's talk about Australian poisonous spiders, there are many types of Australian spiders, individual differences are very large, large and small, the largest is said to be as big as a rice bowl, but the big ones are often not poisonous. Among them, the red-backed spider is the most famous, and it is also one of the highly toxic spiders unique to Australia, small but poisonous, and its back has a red stripe and is named. In Australia, especially in rural areas, fatal cases of red-backed spider bites are reported every year.
My hometown is a mountain village in Sichuan Province, where there are many kinds of snakes, poisonous, non-poisonous, large and small, I have seen them when I was a child, poisonous spiders, poisonous ones, and more non-poisonous ones. There are many other wildlife, insects and many more in the mountain village. When we were children, we used to play in the mountains, and the probability of encountering snakes and spiders was very, very high, and in my eyes, snakes and spiders were not rare at all. There are spiders everywhere even under the eaves, and snakes have been seen several times at our door. Sometimes walking on the path, a snake will suddenly pop out in front of you, and there is no fuss.
If it is a friend living in Yunnan, there are more poisonous snakes there, as long as it is in the wild, the probability of seeing poisonous snakes should be greater than in my hometown. Through many TV series, movies, we also learned that Yunnan, Sichuan and other places, as long as it is a mountainous area, there are many poisonous snakes, especially in Yunnan, all kinds of snakes, and legends say that there are all kinds of moths, which are popular all over the Internet. But aren't the children who grew up in Yunnan still alive and well?
Australian venomous snakes and spiders are generally found in deserts, oceans and mountains, at least far outside cities. In cities and on the outskirts of cities, it is actually difficult to see. Living in the city and suburbs, the sanitary environment is very good, and the vegetation is not so luxuriant. And it's often taken care of, so vipers basically don't appear, and if you see it, it's like buying a small prize in a lottery. And poisonous snakes and spiders he will not take the initiative to attack humans, see in the wild do not provoke, away from it is no problem. Moreover, because Australian poisonous snakes and poisonous spiders often haunt the wild, the treatment in this area is also relatively timely. Although there are many bites every year, the number of deaths is very small, and the annual casualties caused by traffic accidents are much greater than those caused by various poisonous organisms. If you're not a frequent outdoor safari, you don't have to worry about these problems at all.