Without the mosquitos, millions probably don't die of Malaria. So directly or indirectly, they are the primary cause of Malaria related deaths and as such are the deadliest.
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
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...
Guns are not creatures. It is the HUMANS (which you discounted) carrying the guns that are deadly. Guns are inanimate objects and are completely harmless when not in the hands of a HUMAN. Humans are on the list of deadliest.
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.
It was a book? Now the answer makes sense, but not really fair since it apparently is a local thing. Either way, would humans fall under the normal definition of game? (which ever since I was young have allways found an odd term)
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
Man really what do they teach you people, this isnt the first on here that I ve seen people saying insects, arent animals, same goes for birds and fish. Haven seen it several times (and ofcourse that a dragon isn't a creature/animal, just because something is fictional you still describe it as an animal, none of those people would complain calling yogi bear a bear..)
And let's not get into the subject wether humans are animals (thankfully have not seen that here yet, or anywhere for a while come to think of it, I remember a time people would always be discussing it...ugh)
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.
Then there's the fact that there are a lot more horses in the US than there are grizzlies, jaguars, and mountain lions. I was surprised that they weren't on the list, too, but now that I think about it, it makes sense. People are much more likely to be killed by the animals they come in contact with every day than they are to be killed by animals that usually stay away from humans.
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.
Mal, I ride and believe me I would much rather fall off a hundred times than be kicked by a horse (as long as I wasn't riding along a cliff edge at the time).
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.
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.
It should definitely be reworded. If you ask for a specific animal and then follow with an adjective and no animal, it obviously refers back to the last specific noun you mentioned. That's how English works.
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.
Wow... and a snake isnt an animal because it is a reptile, a buffalo isnt because it is bovinae, ow and ofcourse a monkey isnt because thet are, primates...
where does this thinking come from, ive seen it too many times to be a fluke. Is it at the same places creationism is taught? (Not trying to be funny or rude, I just really wonder what the source of this is)
nice, didn't know about the deadliest in usa. know i'm being pedantic, but venom and poison aren't technically interchangable. venom is injected eg through teeth, poison is deployed via touch. the overall term would be toxic.
Nah I think it is good to point out that difference in this case, otherwise people will continue to learn them wrong, thing. It is only pedantic imo if you correct something of which it is clear what is meant, and noone would even think of the error being true.
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.
Ok, couple things: first off, I was confused about whether you meant the deadliest, 2nd-deadliest, and 3rd-deadliest snake in the US, or the deadliest animals overall. I kept trying to type coral snake, diamondback rattler, etc. Second, "the most dangerous game" is a misleading clue. I thought you were asking us to name the most dangerous game animal, so I kept trying moose, elk, bison, etc.
Poison dart frogs are not venomous. Venom requires a delivery system such as fangs. They secret toxins in their skin. So that makes them poisonous. If you want to avoid the word "poisonous" you could use "toxic" as a replacement.
that way you could say something like a butterfly is deadly cause it made me look up and walk into a car.
It does this for 3 answers in a row.
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.
where does this thinking come from, ive seen it too many times to be a fluke. Is it at the same places creationism is taught? (Not trying to be funny or rude, I just really wonder what the source of this is)
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