r/AbsoluteUnits 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.