Australia's Most Terrifying & Dangerous Animals. Snakes the size of Minibuss! There are movies made about imaginary gigantic snakes. But in Australia, you don’t need a fake snake, you can actually see a real gigantic one. At about as long as a short school bus in length Meet the Morelia pythons, they are so large they can lift an adult wallaby of the water. This nocturnal giant is not aggressive or poisonous. On the other hand, the brown inland taipan snake that is half the size of the python but the most poisonous in the world! The brown color doesn’t give any indication of how poisonous is can be. 100 people can expire with one single drop from its fang! Thank goodness this Inland Taipan lives in remote areas in the desert, so few stumble upon it. Fresh Water Bull Sharks “Salties” crocks that live in salt water instead of fresh, well how about the total opposite? Meet the fresh water bull sharks! Yea, it cannot get any creepier to swim in Australia!! In a particular incident, a crocodile was blamed for attacking a horse while it was rehabilitating in a river. something bit the horse leaving bite marks that where later identified as bull shark bites. Bull sharks adapted to fresh water after the flooded levees failed to keep the salt water away from inland and the bull sharks, adaptable critters that they are, started growing and reproducing in rivers and lakes. Bull sharks have become a global phenomenon that includes Lake Michigan as one of the hosting fresh water homes for these dangerous animals. Australian Velociraptor The cassowary is a bad-tempered bird the size of a basketball player. Besides the brightly colored beak and head, the cassowary has a boney head crest hence the nickname of “Australian velociraptor” it has a prehistoric look like no other bird. Although they are like a lean mean machine, they are also very family oriented. The male incubates the eggs for almost 2 months and teaches the chicks how to forage. The Guinness book of records the cassowary as the world’s most dangerous bird. Yet they are extremely necessary for the rainforest, a keystone specie since they disperse seeds. Unfortunately, cassowaries are endangered, and without them, the forest would not be able to survive. 125 - Australia's Most Dangerous Animals - B (Terrifying Australian Animals) All audio provided by audioblocks.com provided under the following license agreement. https://www.Storyblocks.com/license Video clips provided by videoblocks.com under the following license agreement. https://www.Storyblocks.com/license The material credited in the link below was used, some with modifications, with rights provided per the publishing of said material under a CC-BY license. A material list and all attributions will be found there. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R39MmXBti9ZdzPIONp0Ma_3fD6N3pDmB/view?usp=sharing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_fbToSDewM

Family pets that were released into the wild and became invasive species. Chameleons Chameleons are the magicians of nature, now you see them and now you don't. Incredible, right? The chameleons' ability to camouflage, allowing them to take on the color of their surroundings, is a defensive tactic against predators so they can't find them. With this great defense, if the chameleons are released in places where they don't belong, especially those where there are not enough natural predators, the population would start to grow wildly, causing the chameleons to dominate the world! Not true, but they would cause a huge imbalance in that ecosystem. 8) Cane Toad The cane toad is not even like a pet, it is an invasive species that was released in the wild to control another invasive species and turned out to cause an even worse problem. There is something quite ironic in this matter. The toad, native to Latin America and measuring the same length as a human foot, was released in the early 20th century to control an invasive species on some tropical island plantations to wipe out an invasive species of sugarcane-eating beetle. Unfortunately, the toad greatly affected native species in the region, including predators such as lizards and even crocodiles. To this day the population of the cane toad continues to grow due to the lack of natural predators in that region. 7) Ocean Rats & Mouse Pests Fear of rats and mice is something that many people have in common and is not irrational. These rodents are carriers of deadly diseases and infections for humans and for the local species that are invaded by them. Rats and mice came to many parts of the world by hiding in boats and traveling on the high seas until they reached their destination. These pests have killed many species of seabirds due to the diseases that rodents carry and because they are capable of devouring the eggs and young of these birds. Rodents are estimated to kill 25,000 seabird chicks, which is devastating. 6) Walking Catfish Just as the phrase "When the pigs fly" we could say "when the fish walk", because it is an equally impossible and somewhat ridiculous statement. But what would you say if I told you that if there are fish that walk? This walking catfish is native to Southeast Asia and came to America in the 1970s when it was released into the Everglades Park and Nature Reserve. Since that time the population has grown and is moving north, becoming an invasive species. Furthermore, strange events have been seen in which people find these fish walking the streets without any concern. I can't think of a stranger thing to see. 5) Crabeater Macaques These Macaques are considered one of the worst invasive species in the world, wiping out many bird breeding sites on tropical islands. The maca ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YodWB5jt47w