It is probably the deadliest animal in the USA too. I have to say I would rather be stung by a bee than bitten by a death adder [1] or brown snake [2].
The brown snake is by far the most dangerous snake in Australia, since it is aggressive, and even though there is effective anti-venom, it the venom kill you quite quickly.
I actually used to fear death adders more. Brown snakes 99% of the time hear you coming and all you see is them taking off at high speed away from you. Death adders on the other hand lie still waiting for their prey to come to them so don’t move. Since they are camouflaged that can be really hard to spot in the leaf litter. When I would go exploring in the bush around my home I would always take my dog and make him lead the way - he would bark and let me know if a death adder was up ahead. Of course there were a very high rate of false alarms (goannas mostly), but I would rather a 100 false positives than have one false negative bite me.
