Australian Wildlife: Difference between revisions

** Something of an obscure urban legend is that all of the eucalyptus oil in their guts makes koalas walking bombs—let them get too near an open flame, and they'll explode in a powerful fireball.

** [http://media.photobucket.com/image/%252522drop%20bear%252522/hakujinninja/dropbear1.jpg Drop Bears.] They look similar to koalas, but don't be fooled. Normal koalas aren't this big, and don't have razor-sharp claws and teeth, or the lust for human flesh. Legend has it only the smearing of Vegemite behind one's ears can ward them off. {{spoiler|Secretly a folk tale made up to make sure children look up and check for dead limbs before walking under gum trees; they have a nasty habit of falling off the tree and obliterating whatever is directly beneath them without any warning at all. Later adopted by Australia at large as our very own fictional beast to scare tourists with.<ref>For some reason it rarely entered our heads that just bluntly describing the perfectly real Australian fauna often has the desired reaction anyway</ref> The rise of the internet has since mostly ruined this particular bit of fun though.}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190630234805/http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/wombat_212.jpg Wombat.] The larger, ground-dwelling cousin of the koala. They're very shy and dig burrows—once again, watch out for the claws.

** It should also be noted, these things are '''tough'''; hit a wombat with a car at 80&nbsp;km/h and chances are your car will be stuffed and the wombat will pick itself up, shake its head and waddle off. They are also surprisingly fast when need be, despite their roly-poly build.

** Don't forget that they can actually be deadly. There are many cases of wombats being chased into their burrows by hunting dogs, only to turn around once the dog enters its lair and kill it by ''crushing it to death'' against the wall of its burrow. Yikes.

 

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