Thomas Kid in Australia have reason to be wary of eight - legged wight . The continent is home to some pretty dangerousspiders , include virulent funnel shape - web spiders , which have strong enough fang to prick througha toenail . Australia ’s spiders have claim a new victim , though : a few episode of the animated British showPeppa Pig .
AsSlatereports , an installment of the show has been pulled from the broadcast card in Australia for urging kids not to be afraid of spiders . The episode , " Mister Skinnylegs , " first aired in 2004 , and had already been ban from public broadcastingin 2012 , but it recentlyre - ranon Nick Jr. through the Australian cable service Foxtel . Another installment boast the same spider character , " Spider Web , " is also banned in the country .
In " Mister Skinny Legs , " Peppa Pig ’s brother George receive a spider in the sink and becomes its Quaker . Peppa is scared at first , but her begetter assure her , " There ’s no need to be afraid . spider are very , very diminished , and they ca n’t hurt you . "
indicate that Down Under , spider can , in fact , hurt you , parent sound off that the episode was inappropriate for impressionable Australian viewers . After the yell follow the August 25 re - run , Nick Jr. has harmonize to pull the episode from rotation in Australia .
While Australia does have some shivery spiders , the endangerment may be a bit overblown . In a recent study , researchers find oneself zero deaths from wanderer bite in the country between 2000 and 2013 . ( There wasone fatalityin 2016 , but it was the first in 37 year . ) Almost 12,000 people did terminate up in the hospital with spider bites during those year , though . On the other hand , the same work bump that more Australians werekilled by horsesduring that clip period than all of the country ’s venomous animal aggregate . Still , it ’s perhaps best to avoid telling kids to make Friend with black widow . Watch the sequence below at your own endangerment .
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