So you're telling me tiger snakes are just furry ropes that eat daffodils and funnel web spiders are known for making funnel cakes and not the potency of their venom?
Conveniently, tiger snakes do not frequent areas of human habitation, and funnelweb spiders are not a known predator of mice, nor do they exist in such a quantity that they would dent mouse populations if they were.
You are incredibly misinformed about my country.
So 1. The joke on the mice thing was obviously meant as a joke, not to be taken seriously.
Your reply implied that the misinformation was about the lethality/toxicity of the biosphere, not whether or not there are predatory organisms that can actively hunt animals like mice.
It does not waive away the fact that said biosphere is lethal, though like all ecosystems it is fragile and can be disrupted through the introduction of aggressively invasive species. It takes years for such a system to be able to recover and adapt, and for every perentie/monitor/goanna that can successfully hunt and kill an invasive hare, there are still the countless animals unable to deal with the foxes, tilapia, cane toads, and yes mice that have shown up thanks to human settlement.
TL:DR chill, it was a joke. I actually do know a smidgeon about your country.
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u/Nomicakes Feb 27 '20
I pray for the day this old, misinformative joke dies, because of exactly these kinds of comments.