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World’s most deadly animal?

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Hat tip to @ConradHackett

17 Responses

  1. After reading the post, I know the following isn’t the point. But from a non-humancentric view, the deadliest animal is the box jellyfish. It’s very effective (fewest prey who get away), most(?) rapidly lethal, and able to take down animals many times larger than itself.

    Of course, it doesn’t exactly hunt. Not enough neurons to form such a complex thought.

    I get a kick out of the fact that the world’s most fearsome predator is so far away from our stereotype.

  2. Agreed, humans killing human is vastly understated. It seems to count murders only, leaving out infectious diseases and car crashes just to mention a couple of big ones. If rabbies and malaria are attributed to dogs and mosquitos, it would only seem fair to attribute car crashes to humans, as it is one of the vectors through which human kills and unique to homo sapiens too. Biggest scourge on the planet really.

    Good illustration of overstated danger really. Sharks seem to get especially bad press. Would be interesting to see the same information with an attempt at measuring intensity (# deaths per million animals?). Also, had repeatedly heard the hippo was the most dangerous animal, which these raw figures apparently contradict, but I guess intensity of attacks would answer this.

  3. Mosquitoes kill by transmitting malaria – does this count the number of humans who kill by transmitting diseases? I wonder if the human toll should be higher.

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