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A cone shell fires a venomous harpoon at any creature that dares to provoke it. Its venom is also capable of causing death to humans. Travelling in the tropical north presents some different dangers — notably the saltwater crocodiles and the deadly box jellyfish. Saltwater crocs can be found in estuaries, along beaches and in the open sea north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Despite their name, they can tolerate freshwater and can also be found in billabongs, creeks and swamps up to kilometres from the sea.
Saltwater crocodile attacks are rare but viscous and usually result in serious injuries or death. Most attacks by crocodiles on humans occur when people: If you have to collect water from a river, creek or billabong, do it quickly and from a different location each time. A crocodile may be watching and is capable of remembering your movements. But the presence of the Australian Box Jellyfish makes swimming far too dangerous, especially during the wet season — from about November to April.
The Australian Box Jellyfish is the deadliest jellyfish in the world. The pain of its venomous sting is excruciating. Australian Box Jellyfish are transparent and almost impossible to see, which makes them all the more dangerous.
At popular beaches, stinger nets are set up during the wet season to protect swimmers. In the event of a sting, an ambulance should be called immediately. Depending on where you live snakes, red-back spiders, funnel web spiders, bees, wasps, bull ants could be encountered in your own back yard. The best non-flying last minute holidays for families.
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However, Spielberg's intent was to show a racially diverse group of aliens aboard the ship, as evidenced by the final alien who communicates with Lacombe, who is also a physically different character than the tall and small aliens. Why do you keep talking about the alien being 30ft? He is shorter than the humans - probably 5ft - hence looking down on him. From the " making of " documentary, it's clear that Spielberg wanted to show that the alien ship was a multicultural and hence advanced environment where many races worked together; Transcript mine; " I wanted to show that on the alien world there were also different races, so there was the race of the long willowy " giacometti " aliens, and there was the race of the short bulbous head aliens and there was the race of the very skinny almost ascetic aliens.
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In this delighting true short story written by J. Soeder, he and his dog, Shakita, encounter a very curious squirrel one one of their daily walks. It's the first time that Shakita has an up close encounter with a frisky squirrel and the conversation that goes on between them! There is a wonderful excerpt included in Jon's book from Paula Underwood, which also validates the communication between man and animal and provides insight as to why squirrels name dogs the way they do!
This is a never-before-told story by Jon, which will supply a happy moment of pleasureful reading! The Oak Inside the Acorn.
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