There are so few dangerous animals. Up north there are crocodiles, ask a tropical Aussie how to avoid those.

On the coast there’s the blue ring octopus so we’re taught to not pick up small octopuses, and cone shell molluscs so we wear shoes when walking on seaside rocks and rock pools. There are two dangerous spiders, redbacks are the same as black widows, Sydney funnel-webs weave a distinctive web, you mostly avoid those by not sticking your fingers into finger sized holes,

There are snakes that mostly flee from you. Wait a few metres away from the snake and wait for it to move. Almost all snake bite victims in Australia are snake handlers and wildlife fans.

Our one dangerous bird (cassowary) is only dangerous if cornered and attacked

Australia has none except crocodiles, I have seen crocs in the wild

I saw black bears in Canada from the car

I’m glad the animal we had that was hippo-like in behaviour - a dangerous herbivore - is extinct. We have the old bunyip stories telling us to keep out of swampy parts of rivers.

I knew, but only because I read a lot of cold war stories, and for war becomes hot stories. Running a jet on cooking kerosene was a plot point in one

I have since read about just engines and jet fuel

I don’t work in that industry at all. I’m an IT systems analyst