A lot of it has to do with nature documentaries that focus on the extremely misunderstood but potentially deadly animals. For clicks, they tend to play up how dangerous/viscuous/whatever they are. (See every shark show ever)
They also take a lot of unimportant stuff and pretend it’s important. Australian snakes are 17 of the top 20 most venomous snakes*
*Against mice
They just don’t attack humans unless the human is fucking with them
Cassowarys too. Deadly dangerous. The last people killed by a flock of them was throwing rocks and beer cans at them. You’ve got to try to get killed by them.
We don’t really have any animals we need to tell people to not try to get a selfie with, aside from koalas but for the koala’s benefit, it’s not going to hurt you
There’s an effort to replace rabbits as the Easter animal with quokkas. I reckon the quokka is more cute than the bunny.
As an American, it’s mostly just a joke.
A lot of it has to do with nature documentaries that focus on the extremely misunderstood but potentially deadly animals. For clicks, they tend to play up how dangerous/viscuous/whatever they are. (See every shark show ever)
Like quoka aren’t really talked about, either.
They also take a lot of unimportant stuff and pretend it’s important. Australian snakes are 17 of the top 20 most venomous snakes*
*Against mice
They just don’t attack humans unless the human is fucking with them
Cassowarys too. Deadly dangerous. The last people killed by a flock of them was throwing rocks and beer cans at them. You’ve got to try to get killed by them.
We don’t really have any animals we need to tell people to not try to get a selfie with, aside from koalas but for the koala’s benefit, it’s not going to hurt you
There’s an effort to replace rabbits as the Easter animal with quokkas. I reckon the quokka is more cute than the bunny.
I dunno. rabbits have it on floof if you go with the angora. Quokka take it on charm, though.
That bottom pic is a straight up Tribble.
This reminded me of the old Photoshop contests on fark… Good times
I know, right?
for the record, this might give you an idea of how much floof that thing has. They’re where we get angora wool from.
Everyone is worried about the lizard people when the true evil cabal is run by quokkas. Don’t be fooled.
they’re bookies… and they use wombats as enforcers.