@dlowan,
Our spiders are pussies compared to those six inch diameter Australian things that stalk people , fang em until they are limp bags of pigs feet jelly, and then they drag their jellied prey back to their lairs to suck out precious bodily fluids of the victim while they are still alive.!!
We have no kinds of animals like that big brown vicious snarling Australian snake that can outrun a chevy corvette when it wants to attack you. Then it rears up nine feet tall and sinks sabre toothed fangs, dripping with instant liquid death into your body. I hear that you are dead before you even hit the ground.
Nope, we have nothing like that. Even our fuzzy grizzly bears will leave you alone if you just lay down and make believe that you went to sleep. They will sniff you, maybe urinate on you, and then will leave you alone.
I dont know where you get these fantastic untrue tales of our cute American animals. Many of these people on A2K arent as honest as I.