Why Is Australia Turning Ordinary Animals Into Monsters?

I love when channels talk about how an animal makes a crazy sound and then proceed to not actually let us hear what it sounds like. It's my favorite thing. I love it so much. It definitely doesn't make me irrationally annoyed.

There’s a fairly simple explanation for all the crazy stuff in Australia: Australia has historically been so geographically isolated that the wildlife didn’t necessarily face the same environmental pressures to evolve along similar paths as all other wildlife on earth.

Tips for visiting Australia (from an Aussie): - Never get into fresh water unless you know it's safe, do not be "that one guy" who thought you can just go for a nice swim in a lake in Australia. There is a crocodile in there, you don't see him, but he thinks you look delicious. - Never get into salty water unless you know it's safe. If you're at a beach and there's plenty of people around, you'll probably be fine as long as you stay in the areas that are marked as safe. They are marked for a reason, if you get stung by a box jellyfish your life is over. Within 3 minutes you will be bleeding from your eyes, mouth, nose, and every other hole in your body, there is no antivenom, you will likely not even have 5 minutes to tell your family goodbye. Also there are rocks in the ocean that are not actual rocks, they're a death sentence. (I avoid water altogether, I've been stung before by one of the least dangerous jellyfish in Australia and I passed out from the pain, and was in absolute agony for no less than 7 hours) - Never, EVER under-estimate a cassowary. They are seriously dangerous. I saw one when I was a little kid, I stood there and looked from a distance, everything was fine. Don't be a moron, just stay still and enjoy how pretty it is. Don't panic, he doesn't want to hurt you. But do keep in mind that if you annoy him, I guarantee you, you will NOT win that fight. - Do not under-estimate just how dangerous the outback can be. It's not the animals that will kill you out there, it's your car breaking down 1000km from the nearest town, when you haven't seen another car in two days. You will have no cell reception. So you better have enough fuel to easily make it to the next town, a spare tire, and enough water to last multiple days. Because if you find yourself out there and you're not prepared, you will not be coming home. I love the outback, the red sand, insane temperatures, and being truly alone. But I've had my car break down before and I drank a tiny bit of water out of a hole in the road, then almost passed out on the side of the road before someone pulled over to help me. And this was definitely not the worst place I could have broken down. I love my country, and I think you will too. But there are many hazards here. If you don't do dumb stuff, you'll be fine. Just assume that any animal you see can kill you, that doesn't mean you have to run away screaming every time you see a big kangaroo, just admire it from a distance. Can he kill you? Yes. Is he going to? No. Do run from the big spiders though, christ they are scary. P.S. Step on your shoes and then shake them a bit then use your hand to check for spiders before putting them on.

Australia really does make monsters, my uncle Fredrik moved there, and now he's a lawyer.

Australia is that real life RPG island you stumble upon where the enemies are OP and 10-20 levels above you, even the plants and flies.

As an Aussie I must say, these animals are NOT monsters, they are our babies

Animals around the world: Its ok to look and touch. Animals in Australia: Fuck around and find out.

Noah: "Okay, first stop is Australia. Everything venomous and creepy-crawly gets off the ark here..."

as an Aussie when you said the man was attacked by the most dangerous bird my mind went to the Magpie

Cant even drink Coffee in the morning without being attacked by a huge insect. Edit: fixing some misspellings

Watching you on camera killed half of the magic of this channel for me.

Love these videos! Especially the coffee slurp at the beginning! But, dude doesn't look old enough for a voice like that! I pictured him different! Great video though. Definitely want to move to Australia now!

It's actually insane how many invasive species are in Australia. Like, how does one release 2-ton water buffalo

Fun fact about wombats; their poo is cube shaped and accidentally hitting one with your car is like hitting a block of concrete.

The Puerto Rican Coqui Frog also skipped the Tadpole stage, and also births super tiny fully formed Coqui frogs. And Puerto Rico located in the Caribbean and being hot too, does NOT have endemic venomous fauna, except for some spiders and fuzzy caterpillars.

As an aussie, I have woken up to a koala in one of my backyard trees. THE CLAWS ON IT- not as cuddly as you would think.

These animals/bugs don’t bother us in Australia unless you bother them (if a spiders in your house it becomes the spiders house)

"Imagine a vicious, agressive predator with a super strong bite and the size of a tiger". So uh, kinda like a tiger?

As an Aussie, these are cute not monsters. 😊 I'm glad we don't have bears or wolves or anything like that. 😅 I go camping a lot and it's fine. 😊😊

Why does it feel like so many ancient animals are half striped, like the guy that drew it couldn’t decide what it looked like.