Merci beaucoup pour vos corrections. Et aussi pour les vocabulaire des animaux ! J'espère vraiment pouvoir voir les animaux européens un jour. Des écureuils et des renards sont très exotique pour moi. Je ne suis habitué qu'aux kangourous et aux cacatoès.

And I agree I might be biased :)

"Les écureuils et Les renards... " : it is "les", not "des".
"les" : these ones, the ones I am pointing at, or the ones you know I am talking about
"des" : some

Oh ? I heard europeans populated their newly conquered territories with the fauna of the Shakspear's plays :)
So, no squirrels nor foxes in Australia then.

"...might be biased :)"
I actually meant the opposite : "wondering if the whole world isn't kind of biased by the european XVIII century's eye.". Those guy who "discovered" Australia might have been impressed by the real difference of the Fauna. Just like landing on another planet. And Europeans kind of imposed their view on the rest of the world for centuries...

Now, there are other parts of the planet whis pretty dangerous beasts. Mainly in deserts or forests. Amazonia has a nice range of bity bity fishes. They also have a good range of dangerous felines and snakes, and a collection of cute tiny vividly coloured frogs you don't wanna kiss :)

It is true that Australia lacks big prey animals such as lions or bears. There once was the now regretted thylacine, which wasn't that big either. There is still the Tasmanian devil... The size of a poodle dog, but the jaw of a pitbull...
That being said I wouldn't be surprised if the variety and mass of venom you could harvest would be the biggest in Australia... I think the deadliest venoms can be found on your continent. Even the platypus has venom ! The kangaroo is said to have bad temper, and even cute animals such as the koala turn out tu be gnawy-prone MFs !!!
More seriously, maybe the dangerousness of the country and it's fauna has been also pretty much emphasised by natives who founded their business on that image (Thinking notably to Steve Irwin).

Thanks for the correction! To be honest, I still haven't gotten the hang of de vs des vs de la vs du vs les yet. But I will!

There are definitely no squirrels. I have heard the feral foxes are a massive problem in national parks and the outback, but I have never actually seen one in real life.

I get your point now and I agree that we probably are all influenced by the old explorers, but foxes and squirrels are also ubiquitous huge portions of Eurasia and North America so to me it makes sense that they would be seen as the "normal" animals and the "exotic" animals are those only found in specific locations, ie. jaguars and piranhas in South America, kangaroos in Australia, orangutans in Malaysia, etc. Especially since 90% of humans live in the Nothern Hemisphere, so anything experience only by the remaining 10% is going to be seen as rare and unusual. But there is definitely also some exoticisation of these places in the media.

And as for the venom, there are 2 snake bite deaths and 0 spider bite deaths per year in Australia, and there are antivenoms, so it's never really seemed like a real threat. Also it's very easy to avoid getting bitten/stung - just leave the animal alone! Just walk like 5 steps away! This tactic doesn't work on bears or moutain lions or wolves!

I cannot really comment on Steve Irwan as I feel he is MUCH MUCH more famous overseas than in Australia.

I'm not good enough to articulate all this in French yet unfortunately, but I might try to write some journal entries about it. You've got me thinking now!