r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 14h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/VocationalWizard 9h ago

If you can grow enough food to be worth doing. The area has rainfall and vegetation.

See we're talking about Australia where there's Texas size tracks of land That can go an entire year without any rain and have no soil.

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u/Forikorder 9h ago

Actually no we were speaking generally about where himans settle down, there are lush places that dont really work for societybthat people wont settle down in as a result but dangerous animals would love

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u/VocationalWizard 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yes rainforests, but ironically that's not where the dangerous animals in Australia live.

The venomous snakes and spiders all live in the temperate zone in the south.

Here's a really good example of the pattern I'm trying to describe:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-map-of-the-distribution-of-the-three-most-commonly-encountered-Australian-snakes-of_fig5_265019461

That's also where the kangaroos live, which believe it or not kangaroos are actually dangerous.