Daryl wrote:Interesting response, as I have lived in the Australian outback. One behavioural clue, is that if something moves and you didn't initiate it, freeze. The deadliest snake on earth (Number 1 to rattlesnake's 28) the Fierce Snake lives there.
Different gear required there to Siberia or Antarctia, but the principle holds. Our Antarctic ship just left with the latest group of intrepid scientists, along with hundreds of kilos of coffee beans, and ice-cream.
Antarctica does not count against his point, because no one there really lives off the land (note the coffee beans and ice cream); unlike Siberia or the Kalahari.