Australia is a mecca for tourists each year
thousands flock to the beaches the mountains and the Outback for an up close and personal
brush with nature most return to their Homeland with a suitcase packed with happy memories
with Unforgettable experiences but beware reach into a rock pool or wander down a lonely
Bush track and very quickly things can go very bad over the next hour discover
the hidden Perils of a natural Wonderland we'll discover the strange and
terrifying array of creature
s to look out for on [Music] land and in the oceans
and what happens to those who fail to heed the [Music] warnings they
started to panic I'm going to die on Savage Australia animal attacks it's one of life's true Pleasures
to swim through clear warm tropical waters to lay amongst the Myriad of life and dazzling
color of beaches and reefs but these areas can be just as dangerous as swimming in the wide
open ocean you may think sharks are the only thing to be worried about but up here they m
ight
be the least of your concerns beautiful tropical waters we love it but so do the animals because
it's the right habitat for them the dangers along Australia's reefs and coastlines can often
be beautiful mesmerizing and potentially deadly often referred to as the most venomous
creature on the planet the biggest and nastiest version of the box jellyfish carries toxins that
attack the heart nervous system and skin cells box jellyfish they're deadly they're considered
the most deadly mari
ne animal that's out there box jellies also called sea wasps and Marine
Stingers live primarily in coastal Waters of Northern Territory and North Queensland by
their name they are box shaped they have four corners with long tentacles hanging from
each Corner they actually have eyes on each of those sides of their box so they're quite
sophisticated eyes actually so they believe that they're quite clever predators that they
can actually Target their prey and hunt them down up to 15 tentacles
grow from from each
corner of the bell and they can reach 3 m in length each tentacle has about 5,000 stinging
cells unlike most other jellyfish they have developed the ability to propel themselves
rather than just drift jetting up to four knots through the water over the years the
species has killed over 60 people in Australia and caused countless disfigurements The Sting
is so overwhelmingly painful victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart
failure before even re
aching Shore survivors can experience considerable pain for weeks and often
have significant scarring where the tentacles made contact during the summer months the only
safe way to enter the water is in a stinger suit at a Townsville beach in North
Queensland 7-year-old Osborne Q was enjoying a swim with his sister suddenly
Osborne felt a sting and started screaming in pain his sister dragged him to shore where
a frantic fight to save his life began come on off-duty nurse Kim Riley happened
to be
walking her dog when suddenly all her skills were called upon as she battled to keep young
Osborne alive I've done CPR before I've had good outcomes I've had bad outcomes and this
was one time I just did not want want a bad outcome I thought just breathe please
she brought him back to life not once but twice Osborne recovered although with
painful wounds to show for it be everyone for her and never be alive so thankful
like words cannot express how thankful we are these are the unbe
lievable injuries
inflicted on a young Rachel shardow after being nearly fatally stung while
while swimming in the kopy river near gladston said she couldn't see and
then she said am I going to die and then she said I can't breathe and
fell unconscious on the ground the doctors called it a genuine miracle
that Rachel is alive they had never seen anyone survive such horrific injuries
i w even go swimming at the beach just in pools and these predators are found as
far south as broke Island
which is where 15-year-old Michelle caras was severely
stung that's how my hand got like that just lost my breath couldn't breath
too I thought I was going to die or something further north in maai 5-year-old
tanil was paddling in the shadows when a massive box jelly wrapped around her legs
TI the vinegar all over she was screaming hysterically the whole time in you know acute
pain although she recovered within days there's a good chance the scars will remain with her
for Life as a stark r
eminder of her awful encounter there's another creature that's been
inflicting pain on swimmers over the years and there's millions of them Portuguese man of war
or as we call it here the blue bottle during summer months we'll see them all up and down the
East Coast of Australia and is actually a colony of animals it has a breeding section A feeding
section and a stinging section blue bottles are active Hunters dragging their tentacles through
the water in search of prey and then the main f
ishing tentacle contracts the prey towards
the mouth Yes plural of the blue bottle the prey is violently impaled by thousands of tiny
harpoons then immobilized with deadly toxins and amazingly these Armada of blue bottles have
little floats that act like sails to catch the wind they actually have left-handed and
right-handed floats so only half of the Amada will be blown on Shore and the other half will
still be able to to survive even on Shore those Stingers can still sting so there's no p
oint going
along and popping them with your heel like lots of Australian kids were taught to do in the early
70s leave them well alone blue bottles have been a menace on Australian beaches for decades for
the second day in a row Blue Bottle Stingers were washed up on beaches most of the people stung
were treated at clubhouses and some had to be taken to hospital one boy aged 12 was taken to
the Prince of Wales Intensive Care Unit after he difficulty breathing shallow Waters tidal
Rock pool
s and Coastal reefs have long been a playground for The inquisitive and the adventurous
but they can also be a highly dangerous place with deadly sea creatures lying permanently in weight
unlike sharks or crocodiles the dangers of these Marine Stingers are not visible to the naked
eye camouflaged against Rock sand and coral the stone fish can be easy to miss the most
venomous of all fishes the danger lies in the base of their dorsal fin where 13 needle likee
spines stick up and secrete pote
nt neurotoxins when threatened their highly poisonous venom
causes extreme Agony within seconds and can last for days he would have only been about
that big little little sucker he was painful is it yeah it's pretty painful pretty painful
the pain can be so strong that victims can go into shock or cardiovascular collapse causing
death stonefish antivenom is the second most administered in Australia also in Shallow Waters
around Australia hundreds of varieties of cone snails sit quiet quietl
y awaiting their prey
beneath their attractive shells the cone snails have a poisonous Harpoon like tooth which spikes
and paralyzes their unsuspecting targets once immobilized the proboscis extends and the prey
has been devoured so if you AC accidentally touch one of these snails on the Barrier Reef you can
get paralyzed or you can actually die for humans stepping on a cone snail or even picking it up
can trigger a defensive sting causing intense pain vomiting muscle paralysis and respirat
ory
failure and at least one death was recorded in 1935 more active and just as dangerous is the
tiny blue ringed octopus so named for the rings that appear when the eight-legged sea creature
feels under attack the blur ring octopus when they're provoked it will give you a very nasty
Sting the Venom is injected and it's very very toxic again it's it's a neurotoxin you've got
to get help as quick as you can death is likely caused by paralysis of the diaphragm resulting in
Suffocation they a
re responsible for at least two deaths in Australia before 1960 in Darwin back in
1954 a 21-year-old sailor placed a small blue and yellow octopus on his neck while waiting back
to shore after spear fishing with a friend the friend noticed a tiny trickle of blood from where
the creature had been the Sailor was unaware of being bitten but soon complained of a dry mouth
and difficulty breathing and he was taken to hospital the distraught friend said the sailor's
last words were it was the Lit
tle Octopus it was the Little [Music] Octopus when it comes to
dangerous creatures size definitely doesn't matter just ask Sam canaz they're interesting
looking creatures while the 16-year-old was icing his leg leg at Brighton Beach in Victoria
recovering from a football match the pint-sized piranha prawns were feeding on his flesh for
half an hour they chewed away his legs numb from the freezing water until he got out by the
time I'd walked across the sand uh about 20 M to put my thongs on
I looked down and noticed that
I had blood all over my ankles we just thought oh we better clean off this bit of blood and
then realized it wasn't washing away I made the call immediately that he needed to be in
the hospital doctors were totally stunned with hundreds of pin Pricks appearing on his ankles
and no idea what caused them confirmation that the culprits were flesh eating sea fleas only
came after Sam's father decided to investigate by scooping out some seawat and adding a
piece
of meat results were immediate marine biologist say they are arthropods scavengers
of the sea similar to leeches there bugs are pretty small uh they were just obviously
thousands on Sam's legs in order to do the damage that they did they've been known to um
bite people before but I've never seen anything like what happened to this boy I certainly
won't be going icing my legs again anytime soon but some Stingers can kill in the most
unexpected ways and with the most unexpected victims closel
y related to the shark there are 60
species of sting rays spread throughout tropical and subtropical Waters they love it in the
shallows and spend much of their time half buried in the sand which make them practically
invisible to humans lacerations to the feet and lower legs are the predominant injuries stingrays
are a fairly docile creature unless they're feeling threatened by you several species have
a very strong Barb in their tail with Venom in it which can often result in a lot of pai
n this
only adds to The Surreal nature of the death of one of Australia's best known and loved Wildlife
experts a man very much at home with the most dangerous of animals it was the last thing anyone
expected when on the 4th of September 2006 Steve Irwin and his crew set out from Port Douglas
Bound for bat Reef near the low ises to shoot some footage for his daughter bindy's TV show on
dangerous marine animals if ever he was going to go it would have we always said it was going to
be the o
cean on land he was quick thinking quick moving the ocean puts another element in there
that you have no control over Steve was on board Croc one heading for the reefs the creatures and
his fate Paul Henley a local architect took this last photo basically the whole office uh went to
the back deck and gave him a wave and I'm just amazed that I was able to capture that perhaps
one of the last shots taken of Steve Steve and his cameramen had got some great footage of a
massive Stingray they we
nt down for one last shot basically he came around over the top of it
camera was ahead of it of the Ray and Steve came in over the top and that's when it happened then
without warning the creature attacked it started stabbing wildly with its tail hundreds of strikes
within a few seconds it all happened so quickly no one immediately realized something had gone badly
wrong the huge Barb hadn't just stung him it had ripped a gaping hole in Steve's heart it's just
like a knife wound into the he
art but then on top of that there would be a significant amount of the
cardiac toxin Steve was brought to Shore by boat a rescue helicopter was dispatched but he died
in the hands of the paramedics all the animals that Steve IR is known to wrestle and Wrangle and
carry on on with to go by Stingray is just almost ridiculous the man it is the most Sinister
the epitome of evil but anyone attempting to argue a case for their preservation runs
up against one of our most instinctive fears Austral
ia is famous for its deadly
snakes approximately 20 of them are the most venomous snakes in the world so we're
doing really well on an international level 550 people are admitted to hospital annually
with snake bites resulting in approximately one to two deaths per year you would expect
that most snake bites would happen out in the bush actually a lot of snake bites from
venom snakes happen inside the home like this redbelly black snake found in a wardrobe or
these carpet pythons discovere
d mating in a city roof and about 70% of people have been
bitten were actually trying to handle the snakes or kill the snake
at the time oh hey fella watch out these Brisbane snake wranglers are kept
busy as the temperatures soore a juvenile redbelly black snake was found next to a busy bike
path and we got a result we've done a lot out of the CBD here but yeah not many people know they
are here in just one day this team bagged nine deadly eastern brown snakes and four redbelly
black snake
s it's okay D settle down right near major playgrounds and tourist spots in the CBD
fast moving aggressive and known for their bad temper eastern brown snakes together with other
Browns are responsible for more deaths every year in Australia than any other group of snakes the
brown snake is the second most venomous snake in the world they thrive in populated areas this
1 M eastern brown male was caught in a Suburban Garden net that Wildlife surfaces carefully
extracted and weirdly there are
even Beach loving Browns one bite's enough to kill seven
men we just came back from a swim came back to dry ourselves and it's few snakes came about that
close to me but in the bush they can be hard to spot there he goes there goes there it goes what
have we got here mate if disturbed the eastern brown raises its body off the ground winding
into an S shape mouth gaping open and ready to strike its venom causes paralysis and stops the
blood from clotting which may take many doses of antiven
om to reverse victims can collapse within
a few minutes by the late 1980s antivenoms had long been proven as Lifesavers but the snake
identification process still had issues in bban Adelaide this almost led to a tragedy in the
case of 3-year-old Josh Harper who was bitten by a brown while he was taking a drink in the local
park his mother Lorraine rushed him to emergency as we walked through the door Josh's heart stopped
um partial paralyses had said into his body he was unconscious of cour
se didn't know who I was
or anything I was starting to panic because I looked at them and I said is Josh going to die
and the doctor just glared me he didn't answer me just sort of shrugged his shoulders he explained
then what they were doing and why it seemed to be taking so long that they really needed to identify
this snake because nothing can be done until it is I think it's that one the doctors were standing
there with a snake and books and trying to identify the snake and I would come
in and look at
him and just sort of shrug their shoulders at me and say well you know we're trying um But as time
was going on you could see that Josh was losing we were losing him with just minutes remaining before
certain brain damage snake expert Dr Julian white arrives and Dr White just he walked in and as he
walked past the doctors he said that's an adult brown snake this is the type of Venom this is
the amount now get on with it if Dr White hadn't walked in and at the very moment tha
t he walked
in Josh would be dead he would not be alive today and brown snake venom can cause some alarming
symptoms safety Bay is a pretty Coastal suburb of Perth Western Australia and home to Janine Taylor
who's also lucky to be alive she looks like this because of a snake bite but she wasn't Bitten on
her face she was Bitten on her foot horrifically scared I didn't know what had happened I didn't
put it to the sting on the toe it happened outside her local Bowling Club felt like a sharp
prick I
actually thought maybe a spider had got me or a bee my head was spinning my brain was spinning I
couldn't move my legs she was rushed to hospital where the doctors first thought it was a heart
problem until several hours later when her face started bleeding because the Venom was thinning
her blood then they started to panic I'm going to die 7 hours passed before the doctors realized
she hadd been bitten at 5:00 in the morning they said to me do you want us to call your kids um
beca
use we don't know where you'll be talking to them in 20 minutes doctors took a punt on the type
of snake giving her antivenom for a brown snake people have died you know irrespective antivenom
they die but Janine pulled through and doctors couldn't believe it quite dramatic signs of active
bleeding into into the soft tissues suggests that she was very lucky to survive if you think that's
a lucky Escape how about this in Alis Springs in 1994 Carol Matthews was just back at work after a
kidne
y operation when things took a bizarre turn I felt the first Prim prick and didn't think
anything of it and just kept looking but when she felt a second prick it made her look down she
couldn't believe what she saw a snake suspended in a spider web it wasn't just any web it was home
to a redback spider and the snake was a deadly Brown she was rushed to hospital where there
were doubts about her story well I don't think they believe this M walked in with the jar with
both of them in it docto
rs say it's a miracle she survived the red belly black snake is somewhat
less venomous than many other Australian snakes its bite is certainly no picnic it can still
knock you off your feet if you are bitten by a redbelly black snake it is very serious you
will need hospitalization you will need the anti Venom and they are very dangerous this
is Marie enza meeting a black snake for the second time in a fortnite she was nearly killed
by one at her Sydney home and it left a painful souvenir i
t literally felt like bwire being
pushed into your into your body um and you trying to walk against it it was pulling you
back a far more serious snake is the aptly named Death Adder unlike other snakes that
flee from approaching humans crashing through the undergrowth common death adders are more
likely to sit tight and risk being stepped on making them more dangerous to the unwary bushw
Walker the Venom contains a type of neurotoxin which causes loss of motor and sensory function
includi
ng respiration resulting in paralysis and death in can's 2012 Alicia stepped out into
the backyard and was attacked by a Death Adder I screamed she screamed you know in pain
obviously and I came running out I was very scared quick thinking Mom applied pressure
bandages so well Alicia didn't suffer any symptoms until the doctors took them off within a couple
of hours she started showing classic symptoms of a snake bite that's when they did the Venom
kit test after a good dose of antivenom Al
icia pulled through having stared death right in the
face yeah be careful in 2001 7-year-old Anthony Duca was attacked by a Death Adder in his home
on magnetic Island luckily his quick-thinking grandmother June was there to save the day by
the expression on his face I thought well he has been bitten by a snake I raced inside and
saw the death at so I grabbed his foot sucked as fast as I could I knew it was wrong but it
was Instinct and I did it just I wanted to save him Grandma quickly wrap
ped to tnic and he was
airlifted to hospital when the Venom took full effect he was on to his fourth dose of um the
antivenom he still couldn't swallow he could see me but there were two of me um his arms were
still flying around in the air he couldn't move other than involuntary reactions with that
last dose of antivenom he's just miraculously recovered this is the coastal taian you
don't want to make an enemy out of one of these guys extremely nervous and alert they
put up a ferocious de
fense when surprised or cornered freezing before hurling their
lightweight body forward to inflict several Lightning Fast snapping bites the taipan
is one of Australia's unique species of Wildlife and certainly its most deadly
before the introduction of an anti venom in 1956 Taipan bites caused many human deaths
of a snake of this size to kill something like 232,000 laboratory mice it's one of the most
potent Venoms in the world the Venom affects the nervous system and the blood with nausea
convulsions internal bleeding destruction of the muscles and kidney damage in severe cases
death can occur in just 30 minutes the coast of tyan has up to 1 cm long fangs they can grow
to 9t long and they have the third most powerful Toxin and they're a fairly serious snake
when it comes to defending themselves so meet Eli Campbell the toddler who in September
2016 had Australia holding its breath when Eli was collecting eggs in the family chicken Coupe
in queensland's Agnes water he was a
ttacked by a coastal Taipan the third most deadly snake in the
world the 2-year-old Was Bitten three times which for a boy his size should have been fatal within
seconds I hear ow ow ow I could see the snake it was you know probably pushing 2 m long knew right
away this is very serious ears were starting to kind of go Bluey purple um losing his color losing
kind of Consciousness quite quickly mom Britney applied a pressure bandage in the ambulance Eli's
heart stopped he was considered dead
for 6 minutes my partner's telling me like you you've got to you
got to se body your boy cuz he's gone but after a week in a coma little by little Eli recovered
much to the Delight of his parents and the entire country with almost $100,000 donated to help with
his recovery sadly he will have to live with some long-term health issues but the fact that he's
still with us is truly a miracle just rooting for him you know every little thing he does he just
like yes keep going keep going [Music]
kid over the years there have been some strange and unlucky
encounters with snakes he's coming right out now we're not sure if the driver recovered after this
close encounter with the hitchhiking red belly black it might be the heat of the engine
but snakes do like a road trip it's going up on top of the tank so looks like he goes
in that sit this freeloading red belly black caused Chaos on a busy Main Road the wheels
of Commerce were halted when a tiger snake was discovered in a Victorian
Bank staff were
quick to down tools while a snake handler was called to rectify the situation yeah it's just
a baby tiger snake that I've just removed from the kitchen but one man snake encounter gives
new meaning to the term up close and personal the man Was Bitten on the penis by a brown
snake during a roadside toilet stop in remote North Queensland I found a little tree to get in
behind and I went to do me business and actually just sat down and and started started up you
know like and
um yeah I must have been right on top of him seen the Fang marks and and a bit
of blood come out and yeah pretty much knew I was in trouble it actually started to give me a
bit of a burning sensation so I shoved the cold rum can down there just to try and cool it
down and after such a traumatic episode did he and his member recover yeah it's all
good mate yeah it's been um tested so sh [Music] right it's estimated that there are
10,000 species of arachnids or spiders in Australia although o
nly around 3,000 have been
identified incredibly considering their reputation less than 50 are harmful to humans but we wouldn't
recommend getting this familiar as the dangerous ones are very very dangerous Sydney Australia
a city of over 5 million people this suburban sprawl grows every year into Bush and grasslands
pushing Wildlife much closer to home found in all regions of Australia the iconic redback spider has
a bad reputation with thousands of bites recorded every year although nobod
y has died since 1956
when a redback antivenom became widely available the Sydney funnel web is the deadliest arachnid
in Australia it is the most dangerous spider you can find its fangs are larger than a brown snakes
and so powerful they can Pierce toenails from the fangs a lethal quantity of Highly toxic venom is
injected that attacks the human nervous system this is an aggressive capable killer the funnel
web Burrows in moist cool and Shel Ed habitats often turning backyards into dangero
us playgrounds
these small holes were home to a cluster of funnel webs upon Discovery they were killed with an
insecticide sprayed into their Burrows at least 138 people have been attacked by funnel webs with
outdoor laundries a frequent location of bites in 1978 after her husband Albert Was Bitten on the
finger by a funnel web Dorothy striver recalls how a washing basket held more than just socks
I heard him saying Dory quick Dory quick and I come out and he just um just troll on it and
I
said is it f away and CU he we was running many circles he said found in the hospital found
in the hospital and so I just got lamp of string and just TI to T on it that's all that's all
I know what to do I didn't know what else to do Dorothy's action saved her husband's life the
toric a prevented the poison from traveling deep into his system but it turned out Albert was lucky
the female spider on the right is the one that attacked Albert had it been this much larger male
things could have
been a lot worse Ryan mccristal and his family also escaped a potential danger
in 1979 they were shocked to discover dozens of funnel web holes beneath the grass their children
were playing on Ryan poured gasoline down the hole to kill the spiders and at least 15 crawled to
the surface to die how do you supposed to feel you just feel upset and worried about the kids
and uh you know just have to get someone into exterminate the place and you know just go from
there the wife's not too happy
and the kids won't be playing for a while that's for sure and in 1982
high school student Don Raymond could have been the next fatality were it not for a newly invented
antivenom well I was doing rugby training for the school and I was just started doing some sit-ups I
felt a bite I thought it was only an ant and I got up looked around I saw the spider there and M just
grabbed me and laid me down and they ran up called an ambulance got a stretcher out and I just waited
till the ambulance ca
me at the time the antivenom cost $166,000 per dose the cost has since been
reduced but no value can be put on its life-saving capabilities there are so many dangerous spiders
snakes and Stingers in Australia that researchers had to work for decades to find foolproof cures
against these deadly creatures to create the antivenom a small amount of the Venom is injected
into another domestic animal such as a horse or a rabbit the antibodies the animal creates in
response to the Venom are harves
ted purified and stored for injection the Australian reptile Park
north of Sydney is the only supplier of Venoms in Australia these are some of the spiders that
have come in recently and staff regularly milk more than 300 snakes and 500 spiders oh look at
that huge squirt this isn't the anti venom this is snake venom so this is what sent away uh they
process this and turn it into an venine to save lives Australia is famous for its deadly creatures
in the ocean and on the land but there are
other dangers and they come from the skies bats can be
found in every Australian state in many cities and towns tens of thousands fill the night skies as
the massive colonies search for food at dusk but some bats and flying foxes now carry the deadly
Lissa virus Australia's rabies so far the virus has killed three Australians and every case has
occurred in tropical Queensland this peaceful Resort of Long Island is nestled amid the pristine
beauty of queensland's wit Sundays a paradise for t
ourists and for 8-year-old Lincoln Flynn it was
an idelic childhood playground he was an image of health of this beautiful taned body and these
blonde locks and big blue eyes he was yeah he just looked amazing in 2010 Lincoln's mom Michelle
took over as Long Island resorts general manager stepdad Colin became maintenance supervisor he
was a mad fisherman he would uh swim people would paddle on the paddle boards anything really
outside he wasn't a typical modern city type kid I guess who who
spends too much time in front
of the TV and the Xbox and the PlayStation he was actually out there doing it and he loved his life
he really did these loving parents thought they knew all the potential dangers that could harm
their three children certainly SN akes and spiders Marine Stingers perhaps yeah the irangi but uh
a bat never knew that uh there was even such a thing as Lissa [Music] virus Australian bat Lissa
virus is a modern name for an ancient disease and as with other types of r
abies it spreads the same
way through a bite or scratch its victims turn violent and froth at the mouth and when the Lissa
virus struck Lincoln Flynn on Australia Day in 2013 he displayed another classic rabies symptom
you know and he said to me Friday night he had a temperature when I gave him some water and Panadol
he thought I was trying to burn him and scold his throat overnight Lincoln developed seizures he
was admitted to hospital the next morning but doctors were baffled a barrage of
tests failed
to find any answers he just really wanted out it at that point and um that's when he he knelt
up on the bed and ripped out the high V lines and um you know obviously nurses and doctors come
running and he literally threw them off like they were tiny weny people it wasn't Lincoln it was the
Lissa virus the virus can lay dormant in the body for years before becoming active once it does
it's Unstoppable it creeps from nerve cell to nerve cell towards the brain there it begins to
replicate causing irreparable damage and driving its host to seek out and attack new victims
it then makes its way to the saliva glands to await transfer to the next host the strength
that came through with this virus and he had a lot of um mouth secretions at that time because
the virus was trying to escape and impart itself to as many people and now you know it it's it's
just like it all looks back and it was horrific Lincoln's seizures became so violent doctors
placed him in an induced
coma and continued tests as the family also searched for an
explanation Lincoln's sister recalled that he'd been scratched by a flying Fox
2 months prior to his hospitalization okay come back to me if Lincoln had told his
parents about the scratch he might have been alive today a rabies vaccine administered
at the time during the 2-month incubation period would have stopped the Lissa virus in
its tracks but once symptoms appear it's too late doctors knew with the second round of tests
foun
d Lissa virus it meant a death sentence for Lincoln briefly awoken from his coma Lincoln
confirmed that he had been scratched by a bat on Long [Music] Island the tests came back
positive and a few days later his brain stopped functioning he became the third person in
history to be killed by Australian rabies the main point here is that any flying fox any
microbat in any Colony could potentially carry these uh deadly diseases uh we constantly put the
message out there that if you come in con
tact with a bat or a flying fox you need to seek medical
assistant the reality is this could happen in any of a number of locations around Queensland
and so the message clearly is that if you come in contact with any bat any flying fox please
seek medical assistance as soon as [Music] possible right across Australia it pays to look
out for attack from the air a survey has revealed that 90% of Australian men and 75% of women have
been attacked by magpyes this amazing native bird is highly in
telligent with very complex social
behavior and for a few weeks of the Year while the chicks are nesting the males can turn very
nasty indeed magpies are extremely Territorial and it's all about being good parents in 2015 in
Gosford New South Wales little aah hang is lucky to be able to see at 10 months old he underwent
surgery to save his eye after he was attacked by a magpie at a park near his home it never crossed my
mind that a magpie would Peck my baby in the eye and he could possibly
lose his eye um so yeah it
is pretty scary soon after 6-year-old Peter Adam Berry came close to losing his eye he was attacked
by the same Angry Bird along with three other children the man place with me right here there's
a cut right there opthalmologist Dr Michael Jones says the injuries can be devastating we've had
cases where people have had to unfortunately have an eye removed but the site can be damaged and
when you damaging the central part of your eye you can lose your vision to the
point of being
legally blind four-year-old Seth mcginness was tragically one of those cases he was attacked
and left blind in one eye the male birds for some and they get this huge boost of testosterone and
they get super aggressive and it's not just kids who are the target the magpies are particularly
fond of terrorizing push bike riders magpyes are very intelligent they recognize people if they
swoop on you you can go home and change clothes and they still will remember you and still swo
op
on you again the aerial Ambush on cyclist James Musgrave happens every morning a couple of people
have said I what you know he he should be shot but I'm on I'm on Maggie side but there is no one that
Ruffles the bird's feathers more than the magpie's prime target the posy I saw in the corner my
this little black dot looked like a little meteor Just Wings back it was just like doing
this massive dive on for years Australian post workers have been attacked from the skies by
these territor
ial troublemakers but now the posties are hitting back with a battle plan if
they're going to hit you they'll hit the helmet at the back keep your bike under control so we
just need you to be careful and Vigilant out there posties are being briefed on defensive
techniques before donning their Armory and rolling out the defense methods against
the Maggie are many and varied including eyes in the back of the head and scary
masks but do they work from my experience no Australia's most deadly i
nsect is found right
across the country from the Outback to the densely populated cities on this Sydney Railway line a
swarm of bees began building their nests on the tracks as Rush Hour approached passengers were
guided away from the active bees disturbed by passing trains be experts tried smoking the bees
to calm them but they simply moved on to the next platform it is this instinctive capacity to move
as one that makes bees so dangerous The Sting of one bee if disturbed or swatted inject
s Venom into
the victim and also releases alarm pheromones that signal The Hive to attack of the whole list of
animals that are dangerous to Australians the two top animals that kill people are horses and
bees everybody's surprised by this the bees in particular sting people we know this and people
die from anaphylactic shock it's the toxins in in their venom that stopped the heartbeating and
people die from that situation The Sting of the honey bee can cause anaphylaxis in roughly 3% of
t
he population with at least 25 deaths recorded in Australia since the year 2000 and on average is
responsible for two deaths every year essential to Australia's farming and agriculture Industries
the introduced European honeybee are known to aggressively defend their nests it was a lucky
Escape for one-year-old Nathalia sa she was stung more than 200 times by bees kept in a hobby Hive
at her Sydney home nathalia's mother died in the attack after shielding her daughter from the Swarm
and suf
fering a severe allergic [Music] reaction Australia has dangerous animals everywhere
they've got Stingers in the ocean we've got things that can bite you and eat you and
we've got snakes and spiders when traveling in Australia the risk of encountering a dangerous
animal is real but mitigating that risk is the key there're some beautiful creatures deadly
but beautiful leave them alone they'll leave you alone but come and enjoy the beautiful
amazing animals that we have here in this country
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