Deadly Animals

The mosquito is not inherently deadly. It is the microorganisms that it may transmit which can be fatal.

so true

Can you except blow fish as well?

Misquitoes have Zika? Interesting. Well, mosquitoes have malaria.

LOL @ the deadliest animals in the US compared to the rest of the list. Yeah, we're pretty spoiled here, I guess.

Yeah we had to read The Most Dangerous Game as well but it had a cool ending. plus i didnt suspect horses were deadly! I love horses they are my favorite animals but i need to remind myself they are still animals

IKR? Bee, Dog, and horse compared to lions, hippos, elephants, and cobras.

To be fair, those first three are all common in the States. Dogs even live in houses with us and we treat horses as if they were our best buds. People see the personalities in their pets and stop thinking of them as animals that could be potentially dangerous. None of the other scarier animals roam the States freely, so how could they be dangerous to Americans? Besides, if an animal can kill you, it doesn't matter if it's a bee or a lion. You still end up dead.

I would think things like black & grizzly bears, crocodiles, and the number of large cats would top those 3. Even though they're common, I can't see how they kill that many people. Like, how do people die from a bee? If they're allergic I wouldn't consider that being killed by the bee. People can die from peanut allergies but peanuts aren't deadly.

How many people are killed by the animals you suggest? Not many, because few venture to where they live. Far more people are killed by those creatures that live near to us in large numbers. Think being thrown off or trampled by a horse, think being bitten by a dog with some kind of disease, think dogs eating toddlers, actually don't think all these things, it's horrible. Anyway, yes, sorry.

Just wait. If you watch the shows about southern Florida, morons or psychopaths are releasing all sorts of crap into the wild down there (and elsewhere...further north something awful was in one of the lakes), where they are finding the climate and plethora of prey deloicious. And growing crazily, like the nutria did in Louisiana. Pythons, even anaconda, other African snakes that are deadly, esp to small children...lizards..I forget whatall they were buying on the black market & ordering by mail. Something is predicted to kill all the deer in a swath across to Texas ("predicted" so we'll see). The show that follows the government guys who try to capture things spotted near neighborhoods is so frightening! People think they are so cool to illegally own some snake that could kill them, then it grows up and they get scared. But instead of dropping it off with an expert, they drop it off on the edge of the Everglades or a lake. They breed. And other animals start disappearing...

I think guns are the most deadly creatures in the US compared to deaths caused by animals (not counting humans as animals)

^what Kalulani3 said.

Bees killed less than 100 people in USA last year compared to 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

the guns I dont have have murdered no one, the US is messed up, and the second amendment has nothing to do with , overthrowing the government, protection, or any other myth you can come up with. Tho the most dangerous game mentions a man who murders people with a rifle.. which is a rare way to be killed by a gun, its more often some idiot blows you away with a handgun.

I read it in school as well, and I agree. It gave me nightmares at the time.

the worst part is it was based off of a true story.

The black widow has the hourglass on her lower abdomen

I agree, the Australian Redback Spider has the red mark on it's back naturally enough, the USA Black Widow has the red mark underneath.

yeah they are weird, but related spiders. Ive never seen a redback but I have seen western blackwidows here in Arizona. If I looked hard enough I could probably find one haha

Oh I never knew Polar Bears were deadly, Let's kill them with Global Warming! :)

Hmm.. Mosquito is misleading because it's an insect.

Insects are animals.

It's misleading because actually mosquitoes are the vectors that carry the plasmodium which is what is harmful.

accept donkey please!!!!!

Can you please accept white pointer. Great whites are commonly called this.

I'm American and I got all of these except the "three deadliest in the USA"... horses really kill more people than.. brown recluses, deer ticks, crocodiles/alligators, jaguars, mountain lions, grizzly bears? Maybe in riding accidents... I'm not sure that really counts. Dogs only make the list because there are so many of them.

Look at the massive legs on a horse, then the rock-hard hooves or even horseshoes at the end of their legs. They can do serious damage in a split second, and people dont tend to be very cautious around horses. I've heard of people getting kicked in the chest so hard that their heart stopped. Or in the head, certain death.

I should imagine most horse deaths are from falling off more than being kicked.

Our neighbor's young son would have died after being kicked by a horse if his father hadn't been there to do CPR and get him to the hospital. I knew of a boy who died of injuries he received at an amateur rodeo. As killer bees make their way north in the US I suspect there will be even more deaths from bee stings.

mountain lions and grizzlies kill very few people. This website reports 20 mountain lion deaths in north america since 1890- http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/mtn_lion_attacks.shtml

I don't doubt that it's a small number. I just didn't know so many were killed by horses. I guess it makes sense if you figure, as others have pointed out, that people spend a lot more time around horses. Once in a while tempers flare. I heard Mr. Ed was an angry drunk.

Alligators are notoriously shy unless you are prey or are threatening their young.

Ive been bitten by a relative of the brown recluse, they rarely if ever kill people, much like the much feared but equally undeadly Black Widow..

Yeah, bites from both brown recluses and black widows CAN be deadly, but hardly ever to healthy adults.

surely man is the most dangerous animal, not only for the amount of people we have killed but also the range of species killed

And as usual, I spelled 'Pirahna' for Piranha. Why do I always make these silly spelling mistakes. lol......

Human should be on here

It is.

Mosquitoes don't kill humans, they are just vectors. And the potentially fatal organisms they host aren't even animals (protists and viruses). Using that same logic, humans are by far the most "deadly" because we, as vectors ourselves, spread deadly diseases to one another.

I read it wrong. The three following "snakes on a plane" say deadliest in the us, all I was thinking of is snakes..

I'll bet I'm not the only one that got the most dangerous game clue because of the sleeper hit, Surviving the Game with none other than Mr. Ice T. Cinematic genius.

I didn't know humans counted... I would've put it... I just didn't know we counted...

Blue ringed octopus should be counted, their poison is rather deadly.

Please accept mamba for black mamba

I actually got fugu as being puffer fish!. *pats self on back*

Congratulations. You are smarter than I am (but that's not difficult.)

A human is game?

Just White shark would be good. I tried it. I was expecting scorpion also.

wow never would have thought of mosquito bee dog or horse

Dogs are on there but cats are not. Your move, dog people.

I just looked up deadliest dog breeds.. almost ALL of the dog fatalities over the past 30 years have been by Pitbulls and Rotweilers. Other breeds have killed a few people here and there but it's a really insignificant amount by comparison.

My two cats are killers, they hunt birds, mice, rats, lizards, crickets and butterflies and bring them inside as presents for me. And apart from their fleas, cat sick, moulting fur, dirty paw prints, ripping up the carpet and sofa, they are lovely :-)

What are lions and tigers?

Sad to see one of my most favorite animals the poison dart frog so low. They look so cool (and are deadly).

Cape Buffalo sounds so much like a rhino.

Could you accept Puffa fish as well, got me confused for a second

A mosquito is an insect not an animal...

1.ANIMAL: a living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli. By your thinking a Cod is not an animal it's a fish etc.

It wouldn't accept Golden Poison Dart Frog??

NOT THE BEES!

The clue about the black widow is wrong. The hourglass is on its stomach

Also, the deadliest black widow has a gun and a teammate called Hawkeye

The most dangerous game is jumanji

You haven't played Skipbo with my grandmother, then.

the crocodile is very very very deadly

Can you please remove the sting ray question because the whole point of Steve Irwin's show when he died was to prove they're not a threat. They have killed almost noone ever. He accidentally stepped on the stingray I think provoking the sting to happen. He died from a freak and incredibly unlikely accident and it kind of insults his memory to put stingrays on a list of deadly animals. This is coming from a true blue Australian who has swum with stingrays.

I am against people who, to make a television program or to promote themselves, handle and intervene with animals. To handle wild creatures and to have them in zoos and then handle them for the amusement of audiences is to my mind the very opposite of what we as a human race should do. The less interaction that wild animals have with humans the better for them.

As of this moment today, "hungry, hungry African river animal" is my favorite hint XD

Really surprised that the most dangerous animal ever is the mosquito! It makes me think a bit!

Wikipedia: "Although often described as extremely dangerous in the media, piranhas typically do not represent a serious risk to humans."

Very true, but there ARE recorded fatalities due to piranhas, so they still fit the quiz.