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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 07:24 PM EST |
For instance, we don't have many predators that will actively hunt you down,
with the obvious exception of salt-water crocodiles (which are currently only
found in tropical or near-tropical estuaries).
Pretty much everything else will try to get out of your way, and you have to
practically (or literally!) step on it for it to attack you. (Dropbears
excepted, of course - gotta keep an eye out for those!)
What kills most people in the outback is, as already mentioned, heat &
dehydration. It's an insidious killer, where many people don't even realise
they're in danger.
There was a case a few years ago of a tourist who got on an airliner in Munich
in mid-winter, so well below freezing. 15-odd hours later, she got off an
airliner in Darwin, in mid-summer, when it was somewhere close to 40ºC (~104ºF).
Darwin at that time didn't have jetways to connect airliners to the terminal -
you had to climb down the stairs and walk across the tarmac. Apparently this
poor lady only made it halfway to the terminal before collapsing of acute heat
exhaustion...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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