Ix come from the land Down-Under

[drhoz]

Ha! We Australians mock your feeble American ticks. Rocky Mountain spotted fever? Tularemia? Our ticks don't need no steenking microbes to kill you dead, they can do it all by themselves.

Ladies & Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you...

Ixodes holocyclus, the Paralysis Tick

Comments

[niiku]

Fuck D: I'm never going there. Between this and an aussie friend of mine telling me some years back that she got ambushed by a big male red kangaroo on the way back to her car one night, and she almost got pummeled to death by the brute... I'm never setting foot in Australia. D:

[drhoz]

we've got two species of bird that can kill you too. Cassowaries that'll disembowel you, and magpies that will simple ram a beak thru your eye socket and into your brain.

[niiku]

Holy shit D: *traumatized*

[drhoz]

the magpies get aggressive during breeding season too. Hence the wearing of ice-cream hats, and sunglasses on the backs of our heads.

[indis_earfalas]

And swinging your handbag around your head as you run for cover ... while freaking out at the sound of their wings as they swoop down towards you ... it sounds just like the bloody fell beasts from LotR.

Just saying.

[mushroom_maiden]

I never knew magpies did that. I thought they just steal shiney stuff. and I'm an aussie.

It's the plovers I heard are lethal.

[drhoz]

to give the maggies some credit, it seems the fatality in question was accidental. Unless the magpie *really* wanted to impress his mates