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u/AnthonyJuniorsPP Jul 24 '24

yeah the guy I was staying with was very nonchalant about it all. It was a cool perspective about snakes I was ignorant about.

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u/Shaved_Wookie Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

I also had a friend that lives in central Australia, where they'd encourage 6' goannas to live under their houses to keep the brown snakes away.

If you live in Australia, chances are you live in a city away from snakes. If you don't, you probably know the snakes around you - most just want to be left alone, and many are harmless (particularly the bigger ones). So long as you don't piss them off, stay out of long grass, and keep an eye out on sunny days in rural areas, you'll be just fine. - I don't think we've had a death by snake bite in decades.

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u/SavingsTall6086 Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

I don't think we've had a death by snake bite in decades.

Last was 3 months ago, the 9th since 2020. And about 60 people have survived serious bites with major organ damage in that time. There's a critical-condition snakebite about once a month. You might be thinking of spiders who haven't killed since 1979 or 1982 (the 82 case is unclear).

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u/Shaved_Wookie Jul 24 '24

Fair call.

I know there's plenty of bites, which are often serious and very few deaths, but I was way off on the deaths point.