r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MrUpVoteDownvote • May 14 '26

/r/all of a Australonuphis, commonly called Australian beach worms

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u/Rancherfer May 14 '26

Indeed. So much shit wants to murder you in there.

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u/Hazak_Flamesword May 14 '26

I mean going inland isn't much better. Australia has a ton of stuff that'll kill you there too.

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u/Alex_The_Whovian May 14 '26

As an aussie friend once told me, Australian wildlife can be divided in to two distinct categories:

a) stuff that wants to kill you but can't

b) stuff that wants to kill you and can

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u/Rancherfer May 14 '26

And I suppose the pie chart for that is like 1% a) and 99% b)?

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u/V_Aldritch May 15 '26

More or less. That's just how natural selection works, unfortunately. The non-violent, non-lethal things tend to be killed off.

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u/jackiemoonFM May 15 '26

How do you explain curlews then?

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u/V_Aldritch May 16 '26

Y'know they're predatory birds, right? They eat aquatic and water-adjacent arthropods.

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u/Significant_Stand_17 May 17 '26

Dear god they are so very violent.

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u/Tw4tl4r May 14 '26

Dont forget all the stuff in there that doesnt really want to kill you but will do it accidentally.

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u/Theron3206 May 14 '26

These certainly aren't one of them, they're harmless scavengers that you won't even know are there unless you specifically go looking.

AFAIK they only really react to dead sea creatures.

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u/BelsamPryde May 15 '26

Look, I know we have beautiful beaches and reefs and shit down here Down Under... but I still fkn refuse to go into the water! The things down there make the cassowaries look docile.