GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tiger Snake, Venomous Fish, Great White Shark
28 Mar 2016
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Diabetes is increasing exponentially each year: direct and indirect costs. Animal hazards lions and tigers and bears, oh my . People associate perceptions/images of an area with dangerous animals: example: australia and venomous spiders. Wide range of events location and type. On a wider scale than we normally assume. Poster child for these type of human animal contacts: australia. Buffet of unusual and dangerous animals and plants. But traffic accidents kill more australians every year than all the animals together. Risk to individuals is quite small and majority of cases are in rural (outback) environments. List of the greatest threats would include the following: box jellyfish, irukandji (a jellyfish, salt water crocodile, blue ring octopus, stone fish, red back spider, brown snake, tiger snake, great white shark, funnel web spider. Found on the edge of northern australia (found where people are) Only have 3 minutes to stay alive.
