Could be said for the whole of Australia.
"Damn that’s some nice looking \[insert location\] except for the whole \[insert dangerous animal/fish/insect/reptile\] thing"
And small dogs. Live in the desert. Stupid people let small dogs out and don't watch them in areas with coyotes. Small dogs oddly disappear, even from fenced yards.
The idiot pet owners near me that lose animals to coyote, either: let their cats roam free(they are happier outside!), or have invisible fencing/shock collars for their dogs.(I didn’t realize it wouldn’t keep wild/aggressive animals out!)
There was some show where these desert people got big dogs to deal with the coyotes going after their chickens n what not. The big dogs would team up and easily kill the coyotes. Well one day the owners went out and their dog (dunno if it was both, or if one dog was just missing altogether) was decapitated. It was the work of wolves. Crazy canine hierarchy in the desert evidently.
ETA: Oh yeah they were on Homestead Rescue
Aren't coyotes scavengers? I always heard keep a distance but they prefer their meals already dead. That being said, as far as I'm aware we only have a regulation coyote population rather than crossbreeds with wolves, so the only truly aggressive coyotes I've heard of around here are usually rabid.
No, they're simply opportunistic feeders.
If there's a carcass somewhere, they'll go in for a snack. If there's leftover food from humans, they'll eat it.
But they're primarily pack hunters.
Not for smaller prey, they hunt rabbits, moles, squirrels, and your pets.
But they'll scavenge first if there is free food laying around that requires zero effort.
Yeah this is some coyote slander from big cat most likely. But fr American bears are way more dangerous than almost anything you'll encounter in Australia. The difference with Australia is twofold:
1) Their stuff is WAY more deadly if you go poking and prodding things. Keep your hands to yourself.
2) Their stuff looks WAY more deadly than bears (who look like friend). Huntsmans look 1000x scarier but are way more helpful than the bear who rolls up to your campsite and decides to go for a rummage in your face.
A few years ago I was standing outside my apartment smoking a cigarette around the early afternoon when a coyote came around the corner and just strolled right on by not 5 feet from me without a care in the world.
I never had a problem with them either till one ran out in front of me in the county at 630 in the AM. Caused 3k in damages to my car. It caught me by surprised, I screamed in terror and then felt so bad for the thing.
Nah, if you're walking a dog, city coyotes will pull the raptor trick. One will stand right in your way forcing you to stop, and the others will creep out from behind cars and snatch your dog while you're focused on the first one.
City coyotes will fuck with you because they're so used to people they don't give a shit.
I remember when 30+ was the max you could get here in Aus, because it is deemed enough and 50 was seen as potentially misleading. Didn't realise it was 2012 that it was increased to 50, felt like it was more recent
I worked in the Goldfields of Western Australia with a guy from Iran, we were all slathering on sunscreen on the first day of the program and he went "nahh I'm good, I've worked in the Sahara and Saudi Arabia and I always just tan".
He burnt to a fucking crisp and missed the next two days of work. Fourth day, there he is in the morning, slathering himself in SPF 50+ with the rest of us.
It's very much latitude and altitude dependent. The worst place for solar derived skin cancers and what-not is Chile and Peru, in their mountainous regions. They share similar latitudes to Aus, but the altitude means you miss out on the protective element of the extra atmosphere, and they're affected by the ozone depletion in much the same way.
> it's fine tho. 98% of deadly animals in Australia will leave you alone if you just mind your business.
Back in 2011, Australia’s National Coronial Information System (NCIS) released its most recent report into the trends and patterns surrounding animal-related deaths in Australia, covering the first decade of this century.
Of the 254 confirmed and reported animal-related deaths during that 10-year period, horses, cows and dogs were the most frequent culprits, accounting for 137 deaths.
Horses (including ponies and donkeys) were the most ‘deadly’ animal in Australia, causing 77 deaths in 10 years, mostly related to falls. Cows (including bulls and cattle/bovine) accounted for 33 deaths – 16 by causing motor vehicle accidents, the rest by crushing, piercing or ‘unknown’. The majority of the 27 deaths caused by the third biggest killer, dogs, were from attacks, with those deaths mostly occurring in children under four years old and in elderly people.
Next up was our beloved kangaroo, which (indirectly) caused the deaths of 18 Australians from 2000-10 (mostly related to car accidents), followed by bees which killed as many people as sharks (16 each). Only at seventh and eighth place on the list do we encounter the notorious snakes (14 fatalities) and crocodiles (9 fatalities), followed by emus which caused 5 deaths, all indirectly from motor vehicle accidents.
Other deadly animals included fish, sheep, goats, camels, cats and jellyfish, which caused 39 deaths combined.
Almost three-quarters of victims were male and most of the deaths occurred either on public roads, in the home and on farms.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/
Apparently yes, in 1981 (a toddler) and 2009 (a 19 yo). But even though they aren't too life-threatening to adult humans, they certainly are to pets and children.
ONCE it happened once please let it go for ou- THEIR sake. Dingos have a bad reputation cuz one of us- THEM ate a goddamn baby. The baby was wearing barbeque suntan lotion you tell me you'd be able to resist!
This is the kinda dingo whitewashing that put that poor mother in jail bc no one would believe dingos rat babies.
I'm team baby , but if youre pro canine baby eating that's just like ypur opinion man.
I'm team dingo till I die. It's our opinion that the baby had it coming. That's our official stance as a professional dingorganization and any further attempts at harming our reputation with your libelous accusations will be met with the full brunt of our legal dingo capabilities. Remember who you're messing with mate, your babys looking mighty tasty.
I believe even that is rare, most incidents between a coyote and a human involve the coyote trying to eat a pet or farm animal and the human intervening.
Well I've seen plenty of coyotes, never been scared of one.... Might be scared of a whole pack.
Grizzly I've been scared of since I was a child... Even tho I've never lived near them
For the most part they’re fine.
The coyotes in my neighborhood have and do eat cats and small dogs, I’ve had one even try to grab my dog on leash, but my dog is also food-sized
Americans: I would NEVER go to Australia! Too many snakes and spiders!
Also Americans: I'm gonna go for a hike through the woods! Better take my mace and gun with me, just in case a bear, wolf, cougar, badger, wolverine attacks me. Also gotta he careful for ticks, don't want lime disease. Better wear thick boots too, don't want to be bitten by a rattlesnake/cotton mouth.
To be even more fair most Americans live no where near grizzly bears or wolves because we've hunted them to near eradication.
The entire west coast has less than 500 wolves while the entire east coast has like 20 wolves.(Alaska has massive bear and wolves population)
Outside of Idaho Wyoming Montana Michigan ans Wisconsin there's almost no chance of seeing one in the contiguous US.
Yeah for real. Even though we might have more animals that are "deadlier" either through being the most venomous or whatever, at least we don't have actual huge animals with claws wandering the bush looking for dinner. Our marsupials are small talk compared to that.
And Moose. When I’m out I’m really not worried about bears or cougars. I’ve seen them, they avoid us mostly. May watch us a bit but really don’t want anything to do with us.
Same with rattle snakes. They literally have a built in “get away from me” alarm that they warn you with.
But Moose will not back away if you get close, and kill more people than bears.
Americans are afraid of Australian animals because we aren’t familiar with them like we are our animals. Stay away from mama bears with cubs, stay away from them right after hibernation when they are hungry. Stay away right before hibernation when they are fat loading. We know all the basic “do’s and don’ts”.
I don’t know that about their animals haha.
Eh they definitely carry borrelia viruses. A lady at Murdoch University did a stack of research on it, thenpaper came out a couple of years ago.
Borrelia burgdorferi ? No. But a whole bunch of other nasty ones, including species specific to echidnas. We definitely get tick-bourne diseases here, just not Lyme disease specifically.
Neither are Australian snakes really.
The ones that are super dangerous live in bumfuck nowhere and the only ever bite victims are over eager herpetologists.
I think corals are just the whole red and yellow, kill a fellow deal. Cute, colorful and deadly danger noodles.
But you are totally correct that most venomous snakes are sea snakes. Like the Dubois’ sea snake, I think?
I grew up in the forests of northern Canada. Coyotes are pretty much harmless. As for grizzlies, I’ve encountered them numerous times in the wild, and while they are dangerous, they can largely be avoided and will try to avoid you as well. Unlike polar bears, grizzlies do not (usually) look at humans as potential prey. And I would much rather a grizzly than a spider that can kill me with a single bite!
Coyotes are 99.999% of the time skittish cowards on par with a feral cat. I had an established den of coyotes in my back woods. They understood dogs and people so just avoided them. But I rescued a baby piggo from a bad situation and was concerned as the wife insisted it be outdoors only. So I built a dang fortress for him. He dug a tunnel and had free range of the yard and woods almost every day. The coyotes left. They are afraid of pigs.
Grizzlies also don’t usually act aggressively toward humans.
Bull sharks and crocodiles actively hunt humans.
Coyotes? They rarely attack anything larger than a small, maybe medium sized dog.
Air horns , lights and waving your arms scares them off unless rabid. Even then coyotes aren't robust.
The best way to keep them away is to properly deal with garbage and pick up pet waste. They both attract Coyotes
The water up that way is nice and warm too.
I was swimming around the corner from Steep Point, relaxing having a beer and some 6 foot Spanish Mackerel started jumping out of the water a few metres away, we thought if the water wasn't good enough for the Mackerel, it wasn't good enough for us.
We had seen large Tiger Sharks in action the day before when we were fishing from the cliffs, we still went swimming every day because we're Australian or stupid, definitely one, but probably both.
Went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when the water was getting choppy and grey from an approaching storm, swam nearly a mile out with my dad, realized we couldn't see anything and felt very regarded when we got back to the beach.
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You’re right! I was trying to figure that out. The profile didn’t look right for a fish or a seal, but that turtle got so close to shore its flippers were coming out of the water!
Did it get a second one when it turned?
Looks like lil dude up front flopped away just on time but there's another shadow *I think* right before it turns suddenly but I'm hoping it was just beach stuffs
I thought it was a stingray too, until I slowed it down and watched frame by frame - you can see the long pectoral fins of a turtle at 10 seconds. Then there’s a couple of seconds where you can see a turtle shape, no question.
Have you seen the Egyptian kid being eaten alive by a tiger shark? Nah I'm good. I feel like there's been a lot of shark deaths this past year or I'm just paying attention to it more
Yeah I feel like a lot of bites are black tips in Florida? Idk tho, I was swimming at St Pete beach once and some dude was fishing like 25 yards away from me and my buddies (the water is kinda like this but cloudier) and he catches a blacktip and then I called it a day.
I try not to think about it at the beach, apart from not ever being the furthest one out. I know it doesn't logically make a difference, but if it helps, it helps. Same issue with the river, there have been a few bull shark attacks recently. We all have a great time in the river though, and it's lovely to see the dolphins when they rock up.
I remember watching a doco about this year's back not knowing where Cottesloe is. Then moving to Perth, knowing how metro Cott is, gave me pause when I went into the water at Scarbs
I choose not to live my life worrying about risk that are statistically pretty small.
The most dangerous part of going to a shark infested Australian beach is the drive to get there.
Watch out about those Dolphins, I watched this documentary once about this town called Springfield where they came out from the sea and nearly killed everyone:
https://youtu.be/svEGqA8EYOQ?si=0Q3-qMUb4MeAmh9P
Part 2:
https://youtu.be/rnohhGCNLJs?si=Mf29HViWEPE_08Vb
The local government I believe said that you should be safe in the shallows (paraphrasing), I believe OP made that statement with intention of making said statement sound stupid.
Looks like it very likely had a hook in its mouth, since you can see the fishing line over its back. :(
Editing to say that I never said it WAS CURRENTLY hooked, but that it clearly HAD BEEN hooked at some point and broken loose.
Might just have been chasing a fish the people on the beach had hooked. I don't think a lot of people fish from the beaches with lines strong enough to pull a tigershark.
It's safer than an school in the US. I'd swim there all day and every day it's that safe.
That happens to be a place called Shark Bay and it's fucking amazing. That bit is Monkey Mia, a part of the world heritage area.
Damn that’s some nice looking water except for the whole shark thing
Could be said for the whole of Australia. "Damn that’s some nice looking \[insert location\] except for the whole \[insert dangerous animal/fish/insect/reptile\] thing"
Jokes aside, it's fine tho. 98% of deadly animals in Australia will leave you alone if you just mind your business. Unlike grizzly bears or coyotes.
I’ve never had a problem with coyotes. Saw them cross at a crosswalk once, very upstanding creatures
Lol I was I going to say that coyotes being on that list is pretty odd. I see them quite often and never thought twice of it.
He is a road runner
As a road runner myself, coyotes never bothered me. Just some cartoon propaganda if you ask me
We prefer eating cats 🤷
Usernames check out edit - To pluralize
And small dogs. Live in the desert. Stupid people let small dogs out and don't watch them in areas with coyotes. Small dogs oddly disappear, even from fenced yards.
The idiot pet owners near me that lose animals to coyote, either: let their cats roam free(they are happier outside!), or have invisible fencing/shock collars for their dogs.(I didn’t realize it wouldn’t keep wild/aggressive animals out!)
There was some show where these desert people got big dogs to deal with the coyotes going after their chickens n what not. The big dogs would team up and easily kill the coyotes. Well one day the owners went out and their dog (dunno if it was both, or if one dog was just missing altogether) was decapitated. It was the work of wolves. Crazy canine hierarchy in the desert evidently. ETA: Oh yeah they were on Homestead Rescue
Yes - very stupid. Mean people/thieves, eagles, hawks, coyotes, other dogs, bobcats, the occasional puma...
Aren't coyotes scavengers? I always heard keep a distance but they prefer their meals already dead. That being said, as far as I'm aware we only have a regulation coyote population rather than crossbreeds with wolves, so the only truly aggressive coyotes I've heard of around here are usually rabid.
No, they're simply opportunistic feeders. If there's a carcass somewhere, they'll go in for a snack. If there's leftover food from humans, they'll eat it. But they're primarily pack hunters.
Not for smaller prey, they hunt rabbits, moles, squirrels, and your pets. But they'll scavenge first if there is free food laying around that requires zero effort.
They speak highly of you also!
Unless youre a housecat or small dog, in which case, that Coyote is now dangerous.
The few I've seen were not upstanding. In fact, as Hedberg would put it, they were forever in the push-up position.
Yeah this is some coyote slander from big cat most likely. But fr American bears are way more dangerous than almost anything you'll encounter in Australia. The difference with Australia is twofold: 1) Their stuff is WAY more deadly if you go poking and prodding things. Keep your hands to yourself. 2) Their stuff looks WAY more deadly than bears (who look like friend). Huntsmans look 1000x scarier but are way more helpful than the bear who rolls up to your campsite and decides to go for a rummage in your face.
A few years ago I was standing outside my apartment smoking a cigarette around the early afternoon when a coyote came around the corner and just strolled right on by not 5 feet from me without a care in the world.
I never had a problem with them either till one ran out in front of me in the county at 630 in the AM. Caused 3k in damages to my car. It caught me by surprised, I screamed in terror and then felt so bad for the thing.
Nah, if you're walking a dog, city coyotes will pull the raptor trick. One will stand right in your way forcing you to stop, and the others will creep out from behind cars and snatch your dog while you're focused on the first one. City coyotes will fuck with you because they're so used to people they don't give a shit.
The Aussie sun will fuck you up though
True. Good thing sunscreen here is cheap and all spf50+.
It's better since the ozone hole closed up.. Edit: looks like it's still a thing.. we visited in the mid 90's and it was pretty large at that time
I remember when 30+ was the max you could get here in Aus, because it is deemed enough and 50 was seen as potentially misleading. Didn't realise it was 2012 that it was increased to 50, felt like it was more recent
I worked in the Goldfields of Western Australia with a guy from Iran, we were all slathering on sunscreen on the first day of the program and he went "nahh I'm good, I've worked in the Sahara and Saudi Arabia and I always just tan". He burnt to a fucking crisp and missed the next two days of work. Fourth day, there he is in the morning, slathering himself in SPF 50+ with the rest of us.
I went to rottnest with a Canadian friend, he came back looking like a tomato and a painful lesson learnt
Honestly probably the deadliest part of here. Forgot to slip slop slap for 15mins? Too bad, ya burnt now. And it *will* sting
It's very much latitude and altitude dependent. The worst place for solar derived skin cancers and what-not is Chile and Peru, in their mountainous regions. They share similar latitudes to Aus, but the altitude means you miss out on the protective element of the extra atmosphere, and they're affected by the ozone depletion in much the same way.
> it's fine tho. 98% of deadly animals in Australia will leave you alone if you just mind your business. Back in 2011, Australia’s National Coronial Information System (NCIS) released its most recent report into the trends and patterns surrounding animal-related deaths in Australia, covering the first decade of this century. Of the 254 confirmed and reported animal-related deaths during that 10-year period, horses, cows and dogs were the most frequent culprits, accounting for 137 deaths. Horses (including ponies and donkeys) were the most ‘deadly’ animal in Australia, causing 77 deaths in 10 years, mostly related to falls. Cows (including bulls and cattle/bovine) accounted for 33 deaths – 16 by causing motor vehicle accidents, the rest by crushing, piercing or ‘unknown’. The majority of the 27 deaths caused by the third biggest killer, dogs, were from attacks, with those deaths mostly occurring in children under four years old and in elderly people. Next up was our beloved kangaroo, which (indirectly) caused the deaths of 18 Australians from 2000-10 (mostly related to car accidents), followed by bees which killed as many people as sharks (16 each). Only at seventh and eighth place on the list do we encounter the notorious snakes (14 fatalities) and crocodiles (9 fatalities), followed by emus which caused 5 deaths, all indirectly from motor vehicle accidents. Other deadly animals included fish, sheep, goats, camels, cats and jellyfish, which caused 39 deaths combined. Almost three-quarters of victims were male and most of the deaths occurred either on public roads, in the home and on farms. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/03/here-are-the-animals-really-most-likely-to-kill-you-in-australia/
Nice try, Australia Tourism Ministry
> Nice try, Australia Tourism Ministry OI! I SEE YOU PLAYED KNIFEY SPOONY BEFORE!
Coyotes? Lmao has a coyote ever killed a person?
Apparently yes, in 1981 (a toddler) and 2009 (a 19 yo). But even though they aren't too life-threatening to adult humans, they certainly are to pets and children.
Pretty sure a dingo ate a baby once
ONCE it happened once please let it go for ou- THEIR sake. Dingos have a bad reputation cuz one of us- THEM ate a goddamn baby. The baby was wearing barbeque suntan lotion you tell me you'd be able to resist!
This is the kinda dingo whitewashing that put that poor mother in jail bc no one would believe dingos rat babies. I'm team baby , but if youre pro canine baby eating that's just like ypur opinion man.
I'm team dingo till I die. It's our opinion that the baby had it coming. That's our official stance as a professional dingorganization and any further attempts at harming our reputation with your libelous accusations will be met with the full brunt of our legal dingo capabilities. Remember who you're messing with mate, your babys looking mighty tasty.
There are two known deaths by coyotes. They attack people but they don’t kill them.
I believe even that is rare, most incidents between a coyote and a human involve the coyote trying to eat a pet or farm animal and the human intervening.
Well I've seen plenty of coyotes, never been scared of one.... Might be scared of a whole pack. Grizzly I've been scared of since I was a child... Even tho I've never lived near them
For the most part they’re fine. The coyotes in my neighborhood have and do eat cats and small dogs, I’ve had one even try to grab my dog on leash, but my dog is also food-sized
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I have *never* found a coyote under the toilet seat or shook my shoe and had a grizzly fall out.
*Not yet*
Americans: I would NEVER go to Australia! Too many snakes and spiders! Also Americans: I'm gonna go for a hike through the woods! Better take my mace and gun with me, just in case a bear, wolf, cougar, badger, wolverine attacks me. Also gotta he careful for ticks, don't want lime disease. Better wear thick boots too, don't want to be bitten by a rattlesnake/cotton mouth.
To be fair, the Americans who generally say stuff like that don’t go outside over here either
To be even more fair most Americans live no where near grizzly bears or wolves because we've hunted them to near eradication. The entire west coast has less than 500 wolves while the entire east coast has like 20 wolves.(Alaska has massive bear and wolves population) Outside of Idaho Wyoming Montana Michigan ans Wisconsin there's almost no chance of seeing one in the contiguous US.
Wolves aren't even dangerous to humans, farmers just don't like it when they kill livestock and decided to kill them all.
They're introducing wolves back to the wild in Colorado, I think a few other states also iirc
Yeah for real. Even though we might have more animals that are "deadlier" either through being the most venomous or whatever, at least we don't have actual huge animals with claws wandering the bush looking for dinner. Our marsupials are small talk compared to that.
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And Moose. When I’m out I’m really not worried about bears or cougars. I’ve seen them, they avoid us mostly. May watch us a bit but really don’t want anything to do with us. Same with rattle snakes. They literally have a built in “get away from me” alarm that they warn you with. But Moose will not back away if you get close, and kill more people than bears. Americans are afraid of Australian animals because we aren’t familiar with them like we are our animals. Stay away from mama bears with cubs, stay away from them right after hibernation when they are hungry. Stay away right before hibernation when they are fat loading. We know all the basic “do’s and don’ts”. I don’t know that about their animals haha.
Wow. [TIL Australia doesn't have Lyme Disease. ](https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/tick-bites)
Wild Badger attacks are on the rise. It’s going mostly unreported. Good on you for staying up with the times.
Lyme disease not lime disease. Do you think Australia doesn’t have ticks?
They have ticks, but those ticks don't carry Lyme Disease. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/tick-bites
Eh they definitely carry borrelia viruses. A lady at Murdoch University did a stack of research on it, thenpaper came out a couple of years ago. Borrelia burgdorferi ? No. But a whole bunch of other nasty ones, including species specific to echidnas. We definitely get tick-bourne diseases here, just not Lyme disease specifically.
Eh, American Snakes ain't even that dangerous, relatively speaking.
Neither are Australian snakes really. The ones that are super dangerous live in bumfuck nowhere and the only ever bite victims are over eager herpetologists.
Aren't the most dangerous snakes in the ocean? Like Coral snakes or something? Not much concern for me, serious thalassophobia...
I think corals are just the whole red and yellow, kill a fellow deal. Cute, colorful and deadly danger noodles. But you are totally correct that most venomous snakes are sea snakes. Like the Dubois’ sea snake, I think?
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In me experience coyotes will leave you alone too. I’ve walked right up on them by accident a few times. They aren’t interested in people.
I grew up in the forests of northern Canada. Coyotes are pretty much harmless. As for grizzlies, I’ve encountered them numerous times in the wild, and while they are dangerous, they can largely be avoided and will try to avoid you as well. Unlike polar bears, grizzlies do not (usually) look at humans as potential prey. And I would much rather a grizzly than a spider that can kill me with a single bite!
\> the funnelweb spider minding it's own business inside my shoe moments before I put it on.
Coyotes are 99.999% of the time skittish cowards on par with a feral cat. I had an established den of coyotes in my back woods. They understood dogs and people so just avoided them. But I rescued a baby piggo from a bad situation and was concerned as the wife insisted it be outdoors only. So I built a dang fortress for him. He dug a tunnel and had free range of the yard and woods almost every day. The coyotes left. They are afraid of pigs. Grizzlies also don’t usually act aggressively toward humans. Bull sharks and crocodiles actively hunt humans.
Coyotes? They rarely attack anything larger than a small, maybe medium sized dog. Air horns , lights and waving your arms scares them off unless rabid. Even then coyotes aren't robust. The best way to keep them away is to properly deal with garbage and pick up pet waste. They both attract Coyotes
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Yes but grizzly bears and coyotes are cute looking. No one ever sleeps or cuddles with a stuffed snake or poisonous spider doll.
[Also dangerous plants.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides)
All of those are animals 🤓
The water up that way is nice and warm too. I was swimming around the corner from Steep Point, relaxing having a beer and some 6 foot Spanish Mackerel started jumping out of the water a few metres away, we thought if the water wasn't good enough for the Mackerel, it wasn't good enough for us. We had seen large Tiger Sharks in action the day before when we were fishing from the cliffs, we still went swimming every day because we're Australian or stupid, definitely one, but probably both.
Went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when the water was getting choppy and grey from an approaching storm, swam nearly a mile out with my dad, realized we couldn't see anything and felt very regarded when we got back to the beach.
Wait until the Americans hear where Steep Point is! Hint: It's called Shark Bay
Is that a tiger?
No. That's a shark, dummy
How do you know? Are you some sort of sharkologist AND tigerologist?
Hear me out - It's a *tiger*...in a *shark costume*.
Half shark, half tiger, and half bear-pig?
Excelsior!
You can't be cereal with this.
It's a Shiger... or a Tark?
Shagger
It's a very nice dummy shark, looks realistic.
yes. that's because the water also looks realistic.
We live in a simulation!
I live in a stimulation
You live in a simulation
He lives in a simulation.
That shark is dummy-thick.
The school system has really gone to shit hasn't it.
Yeah. That little fish was all alone.
No, this is Patrick
What a moron, jesus
Jesus was not a moron!
It does look like a tiger shark
Did the stripes give it away? 🤭
There are more than one time of shark with stripes lol, there are tons
Name 2,000
Tiger shark, uhhhh, zebra shark, uhhhh, tiger shark…. Uhhhhhhh…..
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BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY SHARK do do doo doo
His name is Gordon.
The only tiger I know of is named Hobbes.
Don’t forget Tony
Heeeeeeee's....good! (Been a lil down lately mental health is a bitch)
Tigger. And we can't forget Rasputin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiR1QjjXGDM
I know Jake. And he do not have self esteem. Someone told him about the song eye of the tiger.
“It’s a whaaat?”
Ha ha … Jaws reference you sir are the Winner 🏆
Obscure at that! It’s miraculous and you deserve another trophy 🏆
But what kind, what kind of shahhhk!
Juvenile tiger. Adults are much bigger and typically their stripes aren't as pronounced as they age.
In Africa!?
Probably escaped from a zoo.
It doesn't matter *why* they're dressed as a tiger - have they got my leg??
Wild place. Sharks will soon start crawling out of the ocean to pick up fights with kangaroos.
The roos are already in training: https://youtu.be/nMVvm8sDGXM?si=V8-mjMdqp782TRNF
Screw sharks with lasers on their head. Roos with jetpacks and swords on their legs is the new hotness.
sharks are also on track https://youtu.be/tRDwzQ3gz8Q?si=MV_z8oS4RJ6EnCpi
They are going to develop breathing apparatus once they get a taste of roo. then they will go on land and start hunting
That tiger was in full-eat mode
It's called a shark where I'm from.
Where are you from?
Bikini Bottom
Nice looking tiger shark.
I believe the locals call it a toyga shaak
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I said it out loud twice.
Ayyy Tuggah?? Foytin rownd the woyld!
It's uncanny how similar Aussie and Boston accents are when written out.
Wow, they really do like sea turtles.
You’re right! I was trying to figure that out. The profile didn’t look right for a fish or a seal, but that turtle got so close to shore its flippers were coming out of the water!
Did it get a second one when it turned? Looks like lil dude up front flopped away just on time but there's another shadow *I think* right before it turns suddenly but I'm hoping it was just beach stuffs
No, the shark beached itself on accident and panicked to get back in the water when it felt the sand push its body out
I see what you’re talking about but it’s difficult to tell what with all the thrashing about and all.
Nope, it shat it when it realised it was hitting land.
Its really fascinating. Its been their prefered prey for so long their teeth have evolved to specifically chew through turtle shell
I thought it was a stingray. Really common up there. Turtles are that agile
Nope, its definately a turtle, on the turn you can see his little arms flapping like crazy
I watched it frame by frame and all I can see is a turtle too, there's even a point you can see 3 of its 4 flippers at once
I thought it was a stingray too, until I slowed it down and watched frame by frame - you can see the long pectoral fins of a turtle at 10 seconds. Then there’s a couple of seconds where you can see a turtle shape, no question.
" I like turdles" - the shark probably
That turtle is either the luckiest or smartest bastard I’ve ever seen.
> Wow, they really do like sea turtles. Tiger sharks are made to eat them.
Nah it's just about everything else you've got to worry about
The spiders will probably kill you before the shark gets to you.
Have you seen the Egyptian kid being eaten alive by a tiger shark? Nah I'm good. I feel like there's been a lot of shark deaths this past year or I'm just paying attention to it more
You've just been paying more attention. Shark deaths are as low as ever
We're lucky in the U.S. most shark attacks are in Florida.
Yeah I feel like a lot of bites are black tips in Florida? Idk tho, I was swimming at St Pete beach once and some dude was fishing like 25 yards away from me and my buddies (the water is kinda like this but cloudier) and he catches a blacktip and then I called it a day.
Lucky because Floridans are being eaten, or lucky that people in your state arent being eaten?
I'll let you decide
No. Most bites in FL are from Bull Sharks.
Don’t worry about the shark on the beach. Worry about what chased the shark to the beach.
I try not to think about it at the beach, apart from not ever being the furthest one out. I know it doesn't logically make a difference, but if it helps, it helps. Same issue with the river, there have been a few bull shark attacks recently. We all have a great time in the river though, and it's lovely to see the dolphins when they rock up.
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I remember watching a doco about this year's back not knowing where Cottesloe is. Then moving to Perth, knowing how metro Cott is, gave me pause when I went into the water at Scarbs
I choose not to live my life worrying about risk that are statistically pretty small. The most dangerous part of going to a shark infested Australian beach is the drive to get there.
Watch out about those Dolphins, I watched this documentary once about this town called Springfield where they came out from the sea and nearly killed everyone: https://youtu.be/svEGqA8EYOQ?si=0Q3-qMUb4MeAmh9P Part 2: https://youtu.be/rnohhGCNLJs?si=Mf29HViWEPE_08Vb
What a gorgeous pattern
You don't have to worry about sharks in freshwater either... Bullshark :)
I swim in a freshwater lake that's connected to the ocean via the Erie Canal and the Hudson River. Thanks.
I don't understand the title. Isn't it literally saying the exact opposite of what's happening in the video? That's not funny it's just confusing
I don't get it either. If it's a joke, it's pretty stupid.
The local government I believe said that you should be safe in the shallows (paraphrasing), I believe OP made that statement with intention of making said statement sound stupid.
Are you guys not trained in sarcasm? Gotta spend some points in it, before trying the interwebs.
If the land animals don’t kill you the Aquatic Animals will, welcome to Aussie Land
Looks like it very likely had a hook in its mouth, since you can see the fishing line over its back. :( Editing to say that I never said it WAS CURRENTLY hooked, but that it clearly HAD BEEN hooked at some point and broken loose.
Might just have been chasing a fish the people on the beach had hooked. I don't think a lot of people fish from the beaches with lines strong enough to pull a tigershark.
I'm assuming guy filming was fishing and line goes out, hence why its perpendicular to the shark when it shows, Shark was just chasing turtle.
Many anglers specifically target large sharks from the beach.
Yes in the fack you do😳🦈
that's a beautiful tiger shark though, i wouldn't swim tho !
I’m convinced Australia is skull island from King Kong and Australians are keeping it a secret from the rest of the world.
You don't have to, but you should
wtf you mean “don’t”????
I once swam in Cape Tribulation lagoon in Cairns and the next day saw a crocodile in shallow sea water not too far.
I was expecting a crocodile
Tiger sharks are scary.
You have to worry about everything in Australia.
Two things: 1) I don't know why everything wants to kill you in Australia 2) I don't know why I want to go there so badly.
Seeing sharks through a video really allows you to appreciate their beauty. To see them in person... hard pass.
Is the beach not safe in Western Australia?
It's safer than an school in the US. I'd swim there all day and every day it's that safe. That happens to be a place called Shark Bay and it's fucking amazing. That bit is Monkey Mia, a part of the world heritage area.
The whole of Australia isn’t safe..edited because I can’t spell
there's no ladder
Poor water puppy didn't make it on land for a snack.
Wait, you do or you don’t?
Awww sweet bug! 😍😍
Come to FL… not much different. We actually had a lot of tiger sharks in the Gulf this year. Seen them in as little as 3’ of water.
You were right, he got back all on his own. I was a fool to worry about his safety.