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Why are things so big in Australia?
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RiccochetJ
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Because scientifically Australia doesn't do anything half assed.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Steroids in the Vegemite.
On the contrary my australian friend is a bit on the short side, but she is hot.
Necromanti
Member
Now you've got me curious.
onken
Member
The fuck is that?all the giant stuff got hunted to extinction before we got here :/
The pic of a spider eating a bird?
Devolution
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There's a reason it was a penal colony. No one wanted to tame that wilderness.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
This is great.
phatmike128
Member
The worst thing in Australia are Drop Bears.
Source?
FO-totality
Poet Centuriate
It's the Australium in the soil. Makes shit big. Look at Saxon Hale, for god sake!
Id say average height for women here in my city in canada is probably about 5"5'.Are u sure the girls were you come from arnt just short?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
We are a large people, so nature needed to adjust to compensate.
C'mon those things are bust
Henchmen21
Banned
The miniscule amount of Australian porn says that they aren't so big.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Yes sir.
Evolution tends to separate species more readily if given isolation and Australia is an enormous island continent. So all the stuff that got hunted and eaten on the mainlands stayed alive in Australia , I like to think it's just slower to change is all. Between human interference and temperature change I'm sure things will even out with the rest of the world eventually.
Fluoride
Winnie the Pimp
Member
This really isn't about animals is it?
Heyyy.You mean Angela White!
Everything's bigger in Australia!
Something just got bigger in Europe!
There's a giant centipede fighting a giant spider in your toilet right now. Go, go look.
BBQMan
Member
No they are just rarely seen these days due to the new camping laws. There is the occasional story on TV about back packers broken bones etc.
One crushed my tent once. I went fishing came back and tent was flat and half the beer was torn to shreds.
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Transhuman
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism
To be honest, I've lived in Australia my entire life and I've never seen a spider bigger than 2cm. I'm sure there's some indigenous species of spiders and insects in the remote regions that are larger, but no more than you'd expect from a country with a wider biological diversity. There's also the fact that most of these spiders live in remote and uninhabited areas of Australia, which is of course the kind of areas tourists like to visit, so of course they come home with the impression that the entirety of Australia is covered with deadly, hideous species.
To be honest, I've lived in Australia my entire life and I've never seen a spider bigger than 2cm. I'm sure there's some indigenous species of spiders and insects in the remote regions that are larger, but no more than you'd expect from a country with a wider biological diversity. There's also the fact that most of these spiders live in remote and uninhabited areas of Australia, which is of course the kind of areas tourists like to visit, so of course they come home with the impression that the entirety of Australia is covered with deadly, hideous species.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Go to Qld to see the big bugs
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