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The podcast discusses Australian wildlife, including the issue of imported rabbits taking over the country. A guest, Thomas, shares his experience living in Australia and mentions the dangerous wildlife there, such as snakes. The conversation then shifts to spiders, specifically huntsman spiders, which are large but not harmful. The hosts also mention their encounter with koalas and their lazy lifestyle. The podcast ends with a farewell. Hello and welcome to the Travel Podcast, where we talk about our trips around the world. In today's episode, we are going to talk about Australian wildlife. Yeah, this is the first episode we ever made. When we were in Australia, we discovered and learned some fascinating features about Australia. Although I find it very interesting that a strict country, Australia, is yet one of the biggest importers of wool. Don't you agree? Yes. I've heard that Australia has over 60,000 farmers that have almost a thousand sheep per farm. That is quite a number of sheep for such a strict country. What do you guys mean by Australia being a strict country? Have you not heard about the occurring animal problems in Australia? No. Australia has had continuing problems with animals like rats, rabbits and more. Let us begin with the rabbit issue. First, they imported some rabbits to Australia. Little by little, they took over the country and since then, they have been reasonably strict about what they accept in their country. Yes, now that I hear it, I do seem to recall some of it. Yeah. They imported only 12 rabbits and now they have over 100 million, more than the whole population. Speaking of the Australian population, now that our guest is here, Thomas, please introduce yourself. Hello. My name is Thomas and I'm 20 years old. When you guys invited me to this podcast, I was thrilled to hear that I could have the chance to be here. As you guys know, I'm 20 years old, but I live in Norway. I've lived in Australia for about 17 years. Good to hear. I'm moving on to the questions. Where did you stay? I lived in the city of Melbourne my whole time living in Australia. It's a big city with almost about 5 million people. That's interesting. How is Australia different from Norway? The wildlife in Australia is way more deadlier than in Norway. In Australia, we have sharks, snakes that are more deadly to people. In Norway, just moose and fish is not as deadly as Australia's wildlife. What animals and insects did you encounter in Australia? One of the worst animals I encountered was a snake. I met it on a hike. The snake I had got inside my tent while I was sleeping. My friend got it right before it was going to bite me. Was it scary in Australia? Yes. You get used to it and the animals and other things. Well, thank you for joining us on the podcast. That's all for today. Bye for now. Yes. We were also in Australia last week. Yes, I was frightened at first because I heard there are a lot of spiders and snakes there. When we arrived, I gradually became more relaxed. What spider were you the most intimidated of? I feared the possibility of encountering the huntsman spider. They are enormous. Yeah. Luckily, they are not very harmful. Their bite only stings briefly because of the poison. I have also heard that the huntsman spiders are friendly and have no intention of harming or attacking you. They also keep the insect populations in control. So they are friendly. Yeah. I love reading about spiders, especially Australian spiders, because there are so many species. Yeah, I heard there are over 10,000 species of spiders in Australia. Ew. Anyway, we stayed in New South Wales next to the Royal National Park. And we got to hold lots of koalas. They are such adorable creatures. We were also informed about their lifestyle. Koalas are so lazy animals. They spend most of the time of their days sleeping and eating. Okay. I think we will wrap things up with that. Thank you guys very much for coming. Hopefully, we will go on many other journeys together. But that's yet to come. Bye for now.