re: Australia to kill pigeon that crossed Pacific from Oregon

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The continent that has 800 species of snakes that can swallow a whole adult human, 25 foot long crocodiles, great white sharks and spiders with venom strong enough to drop an elephant.

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So true story. Wife and I went to Australia a few years ago for a couple weeks. We're touring the Hunter Valley wine region just a bit north of Sydney. Stop at a winery. It's summer, so all outdoors stuff. I grab a small table and some chairs and move them under a tree for some shade. The owner comes out and says "uh, you don't want to sit under that tree. We've had brown snakes in there before and they tend to drop out of the trees at times."

Brown Snakes. As in the one if it bites you, you're dead.