and not that important to most Aussies

it's as if it's another country

well it's not unlike the distance from New York to LA

actually it might even be a bit further

but unlike the US there's nothing in between

Well, people from NY or LA may say the same about the US

yeah I'm being much more literal

I mean there's the Great Sandy Desert

lol just miles and miles of feral cats

or the Nullarbor depending on what way you go

that looks pretty cool where it meets the ocean

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTczNDc4MjU.NjI0NDA2*MzYwMDAwMDA(MA~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)MA~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)Mg~!AU*MTA0NzAxMTg.MTQzNjU0ODg)Mw I'm going down a rabbit hole I guess this site is pretty cool though
who knew Kazakhstan was so big?

There's some video on youtube by Vox or something that says the reason certain countries on maps are smaller than real life is because maps are made by white supremacist, western/euro-centric racists.

damn it they're onto cartographers the last bastion of white supremacy

lmao

something I've always found interesting did you know Aus has the largest share of Antartica?

Really? well I guess you guys are pretty close to it

What even goes on there

research

but it's crazy once upon a time Antartica shared wildlife with Aus

it may even have been where our wildlife came from

It's so weird to think that everything was all smashed together at one point. And Australia became the last bastion for marsupials before placental mammals took over the rest of the world.

there are some marsupials in the Americas

mhmm we have exactly 1 species here lol

the virginia opossum

there are more south of the border though

those things are creepy

they are so cute!

our possums are cute

Ours are like cool halloween possums

although they may look cute they are ferocious when fighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAVXP7fO6w8

You guys have like hundreds of different ones, I can't tell them all apart. I do hope they survive the invasive species problem.

possums aren't really threatened but some of our smaller ones are

wtf they sound like demon hogs lol

yeah there are possums near here often at night when it's quiet you'll hear that start out of nowhere

That's like raccoons for us

but they're very tame usually with humans you can feed them from you hand, some will climb on you

it's funny possums were very rare where I grew up out in sticks but they're every in the cities, same for Scrub turkeys and white ibis, it's funny how adaptive some species are to cities

I love ibises but ive heard australians call them bin birds are something lol