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Do you have any killer snakes or spiders?
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New Zealand doesn’t have any snakes, scorpions, bears, wild cats (of the ferocious variety) or alligators/crocodiles. We do have spiders but only one of them is capable of causing a nasty bite – and it’s never fatal.
 

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