[StainlessSteelCynic]

Schone, I think you missed a C. option
C. Breeding/testing ground for WETKY** Snakes.


** WETKY -- We Exist To Kill You.


Targan didn't mention that when it comes to dangerous wildlife, quite a bit of it can be found in towns and cities and even on beaches regularly attended by people.
I live in the same city as Targan and at my old workplace, we would get juvenile Dugite snakes coming into the building through the warehouse area and we'd sometime discover adult Dugites sleeping under pallets or hiding under cars in the carpark.

Now Dugites are quite dangerous but they're on the lower end of the scale, the adults prefer to avoid humans so while they're potentially lethal, they tend to get out of your way and while the juveniles are very aggressive much of the time, their venom isn't concentrated enough to kill. But just in case you think they aren't something to worry about, in 2011 a primary school aged boy was bitten by a Dugite that found its way into his bedroom and snuggled up to him while he slept. The boy made a full recovery.

Unfortunately, our towns are also home sometimes to the Tiger Snake. Tiger Snakes also generally prefer to avoid humans and generally prefer to be in the rural areas but you should just keep the hell away from them anyway because even if they aren't cornered, they may decide to chase you just because they can... I know from personal experience and the damned snake followed my friend and I for a good 50 metres before we managed to kill it (we were in a horse paddock, so it was either us, the horses or the snake, we chose the snake after the bastard chose us).

Then we start going up the scale a quite a bit with a snake that's both deadly and an urban dweller, the Eastern Brown Snake. Even juveniles can kill an adult human and while the Eastern Brown is mostly located on the east coast or in the north, it has a relative, the Gwardar AKA the Western Brown Snake. This little charmer is often more aggressive than the Eastern Brown, it's probably pissed that its venom isn't as deadly as the Eastern Brown so it makes up for it by delivering a larger quantity of venom and also by trying to bite you several times.

Now to put that into some perspective, I've encountered all three of these snakes (most often the Dugite but a Western Brown in the backyard killed one of our cats) at least once every three or four years in this city.

There's a few others that fortunately live away from urban areas that are more dangerous such as the Inland Taipan and the Belcher's Sea Snake.