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Tree Bucket posted:You guys like really amateur field ecology, right? hmmm Davo, Shazza and Jonesy Lace monitors are rad - we used to run into them a lot camping when i was a kid. I remember them breaking into the food while we were out getting firewood one time and they stole and devoured some cheese. Also their big cousins, the Perentie (Varanus giganteus) are cool too! Stories of them attacking humans are very much overblown but there really have been some serious ones over the years that have required hospitalization. These are almost always defensive on the goanna's part, occasionally a panicked one will mistake a person for a tree and climb them and more rarely due to aggression around food (especially meat) or if they have eggs nearby. Their whip-like tails can cause considerable damage, as can their sharp claws but also their bite is powerful enough to break an arm and inflict deep and nasty wounds that bleed severely because they're venomous. They can also run on their hind legs faster than a human being and have been known to chase people down on the rare occasions they become violent towards a person. An attack could certainly be potentially fatal. But yeah attacks are vanishingly rare, almost by definition the people involved are at fault and frankly there's a lot more dangerous Aussie wildlife to worry about lol
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