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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Australian badgers are half this size, have no teeth at all, but can project venom 50ft from a gland in their nostril. The venom is completely harmless to humans, however it soaks into the skin and causes a pheromone to be emitted from the lungs such that when you are asleep, it attracts 14 different species of deadly venomous spiders that are attracted to your airway from up to a 4km radius.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure you made this up, so i believe it completely.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

This is all true but it's missing a key detail. The Australian badger is actually completely unrelated to the European and American badgers (which are mustelids). The Australian badger is a marsupial most closely related to the Tasmanian devil.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to know if this is true or not. Nobody look it up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Those are the ones related to drop bears, right? I mean they've gotta be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Of course Australian badgers would do this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You had me in the first half

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Wat.

It sounds kinda based on stink badgers but they also aren't in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's worse. So much worse. "I won't kill you but you'll wish I did"