Match the heading to the short text. Ten most poisonous snakes in the world live in Australia! An inland taipan is the most dangerous in the world, and its venom is 50 times stronger than an Indian Cobra’s. An eastern brown snake is a long (up to 1.8 metres!), fast-moving snake and the second most dangerous in the world. Fortunately, both of these snakes usually stay away from humans so bites are quite rare.
ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Match the heading to the short text. A platypus may look cute, but platypus males have a poisonous spike on their back legs that they use in self-defence. Victims suffer from terrible pains that can last for up to 3 months!
Match the heading to the short text. You have to watch out for the 6-metre-long salt-water crocodile, too. They can go 240 km inland or out into the ocean and attack anything that moves, even sharks!
Match the heading to the short text. Australia has some of the most dangerous spiders in the world. A dark-coloured funnel-web spider is one of the most poisonous. Its teeth are so strong that it can even bite through a shoe! If it bites you, you need antivenin very quickly.
Match the heading to the short text. You have to watch out for Australia’s many dangerous sea creatures … especially a box jellyfish. It’s almost invisible to swimmers, and it has caused more deaths than snakes, sharks and crocodiles put together. Each of its 3-metre-long tentacles has 500,000 needles for injecting venom into its victims. Although it’s very small. A blue-ringed octopus is also deadly! This pretty octopus lives in the rock pools and has enough venom to kill 10 men.
Match the heading to the short text. Another scary spider is a redback spider with a red stripe on its back. It hides in backyards, and sometimes in homes, all over Australia, and it can give a very nasty bite causing horrible pain, sweating and vomiting.
Match the heading to the short text. Great white sharks are the best-known types of sharks. They can be identified by their grey skin, white bellies, bullet-shaped bodies and rows of 300 serrated, triangular teeth. They prefer warm, salty, temperate and coastal seas. Great white sharks are carnivores. Their diet consists of small-toothed whales, sea lions, seals, sea turtles and carrion (dead animals).
Match the heading to the short text. Kangaroos are Australia’s national icon, but they are actually a major cause of car accidents. The statistics have released by Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited (AAMI) that show that kangaroos are responsible for nine out of 10 road accidents involving animals through the country.
Match the heading to the short text. A stonefish is one of the most venomous fish species in the world. Its stings may even be fatal. A stonefish has needle-like dorsal fin spines which stick up, when it is disturbed. The spines inject neurotoxins that are secreted from glands at their bases.
Match the heading to the short text. Stingrays have gained a bad reputation, however, many people think that they are a very rarely threat to humans. The most dangerous part of the stingray is its barbed and poisoned tail. Stingray attacks are more likely to happen to the divers who enter or exit through the ocean shallow water and accidentally step on a stingray.
