So the echidna has a four headed dick OR... WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU AUSTRALIA?!?!

Four headed PREHENSILE dick.

Seriously, you have issues Australia. I'm pretty sure in the future we're going to learn that Australia was where our ancient alien ancestors tested out nukes.

And for those of you wondering how I got there, no I was not looking at animal dick porn. My wife sent me a video of a baby platypus getting her belly scratched that sent me into a late night hour and half long wikipedia/youtube death spiral which landed me at that video.

Four times the fun.

Careful, Anc. You'll get Volpone all excited.

Serious question, do people growing up in Australia realize they're in the middle of a nightmare, or do y'all just consider it normal?

I mean aren't something like half of all venomous species in the world in Australia? Then you've got the marsupials, the monotremes, huge fucking flightless birds and shit....

A few weeks ago at my university there were signs everywhere warning that magpies were swooping at the moment. They're big birds and will draw blood if they get you. The signs disappeared for a day, then reappeared with an attached note that a brown snake had been spotted in the area.

The only place with weirder looking animals would be the deep sea...

So your wife was looking at animal dick porn?

Somewhat related, I'm hoping to work with the shark patrol this summer.

Not just the animals, even the tree's and plants are badass down under.

Australia is also the home of the Tuan, a harmless little brush-tailed marsupial:

It's also home to this monstrosity:

When I was down in Australia, I joked with my hosts that, although Australia has lots of interesting animal life, half of it is poisonous and the other half is carnivorous.

I've known a few people who have let Huntsman Spiders just chill out on walls inside their house. They keep out of people's ways and are chilled if left alone, and eat other bugs.

I wish we had some of the mega-fauna that only went extinct in the last few thousand years, probably due to a combination of climate change and the arrival of humans. We used to have large carnivorous birds that may as well have been dinosaurs, and full on marsupial lions.

So it's your wife's fault.

Fuck all that.

You sure you want to? It has four heads...

They also have aquatic centipedes that are, of course, poisonous!

Not to mention the poisonous snakes...and it's illegal to kill them!

Not if they're directly threatening you. Otherwise you're meant to call a snake catcher to get rid of it.

(ignore the commentary, the actual video would pretty much be my reaction to any god damn snake)

If it's crazy venomous, I'd leave that shit to a professional.

If I can pay someone else to risk their life, I'm all about it.

I'd call Steve Irwin to deal with it.


Oh.

Snake Catcher, not snake killer.

If something is directly threatening you you won't get in trouble for killing it, but otherwise they are meant to be caught and will be re-released elsewhere.

Attacking a snake that isn't threatening you is stupid, because if your first attack doesn't kill it you now have a snake very pissed off at you.

Elwood disagrees!

Yeah, I liked Sydney when I hit port two years ago there, but the killer spiders are a no go for me.

You mean having 4 isn't normal?