Australia has a reputation of being filled with wildlife that wants to kill you.
Blue-ringed octopuses, bull sharks, and box jellyfish swim along the coasts.
Saltwater crocodiles haunt the estuaries.
Funnel web spiders contain a deadly neurotoxin, while huntsman spiders are less likely to cause serious illness but far more likely to terrify humans with their speed and size.
And we've done an entire episode on the incredibly lethal inland taipan and its close relatives that live in other parts of the continent.
But occasionally the most unexpected species can turn violent.
If you wander through the grassy fields of Australia, you might come across a scene like this - a kangaroo wading chest deep in water, with a look on his face that says "come on in, the water's great." If the kangaroo succeeds in luring its opponent into the water, it will ferociously drown it by holding its head underwater until its no longer putting up a fight.
Many dogs and dingos have met their end in this way.
And in 2022, a man was even killed when he suffered extensive head injuries including a broken jaw as he attempted to rescue his two dogs from a large kangaroo.
These fluffy, grass-eating, hopping animals, who fill the same ecological niche as deer do in other parts of the world, can also be quite dangerous.
