Australia Deadly Animals Spiders

At least 40 species of funnel web-spider reside in Australia among the most toxic being Atrax robustus or the Sydney funnel-web spider.

Australia deadly animals spiders. The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider is the most dangerous and deadliest in Australia. Australian spiders are not deadly. Most Dangerous Animals in Australia.

Sharks lurk throughout the continents waters including some lakes fatally attacking humans more than anywhere else in the world. Australia may be home to a plentiful selection of dangerously venomous animals but snakes. The box jellyfish marbled cone snail blue-ringed octopus and stonefish are in the top ten most venomous animals of the world and all live in Australia.

Antivenom is available so there were no deaths to report since 1956. A python one of Australias 170 snake species is seen strangling its roadside prey - a grey-headed flying fox Credit. Spiders will only bite if provoked.

The Funnel Web Spider is regarded as in the top three of the worlds most deadly spiders. The redback spider is a member of the black widow family and bites are very painful for a few days. Redback Spider - Latrodectus hasseltii.

They are small only between 1cm and 5cm in length but small packages contain mighty punches. Robustus has one of the most toxic venoms to humans of. These are the funnel-web and the redback spider but no one has died from a bite from one of these in nearly 40 years and anti-venom is available for both species.

A song about all the wonderful things that Australia has to offerFULL CREDITS BELOWWritten and Performed by Christiaan Van VuurenAnimated by Connor Van Vu. Dont avoid Australian beaches because of possible shark attacks. Interestingly Australia only has 66 venomous species whereas Mexico has 80 and Brazil has 79.