Australia: Everything is trying to kill you

[Morgrim]

The angry curls of the tentacles show its fury?

Nah, it's the spots. It only flashes its blue rings when it is seriously upset. They're a dull sandy colour most of the time.

[daboarder]

I hope they survived, that octopus is furious. And almost certainly bit them. Although it's distinctly yellower than the blue-rings I've seen, it could possibly be photoshopped.

it was suggested a lot that its photoshoped.

Otherwise that idiot is a corpse

[Morgrim]

If the people around you know exactly what happened and are on the ball, blue-ring octopus bites are entirely survivable. They paralyse everything, so you need to receive CPR until the ambulance arrives and can get you on life support, but as long as that happens and you don't suffer brain damage you'll be okay two or three days later once the venom wears off.

Physically, at least. The nasty thing about that venom is that it paralyses the muscles and makes it look like you've died, but it doesn't affect the brain in any way. You are awake, conscious, desperately pleading in your own head for people to realise you're alive and to save you, feeling every moment but unable to react in any way.

I can't find any studies on the mental impacts on survivors, but I imagine it could cause some lingering issues.

[Psychosplodge]

Nah, it's the spots. It only flashes its blue rings when it is seriously upset. They're a dull sandy colour most of the time.

I'm disappointed it wasn't the curls

[Psychosplodge]

Do our vertically confused posters consider the rhino a deadly enough animal to add to the Australian biosphere?

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36244910[/url]

[Kaptain Badrukk]

You know what, i'm for this. It's just so crazy it might work!

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah but you don't count you're too new

[Morgrim]

It'll be interesting to see how the park environment reacts. Rhinos fill a niche similar to some of the megafauna killed by the first humans to live in Australia, and 30 000 years is short on geological timescales. We may find some flora thrives particularly well around rhinos.

[Kirsten]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36486468[/url]

[Morgrim]

[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-21/sal****er-crocodiles-set-loose-in-darwin-school/7770750[/url]

Poor crocodiles.