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Most of us love animals. What could be better than visiting a zoo or watching a wildlife movie with your family on TV. However, there are animals that pose a serious threat to people, and it is better to bypass such “our smaller brothers” on the tenth road. Fortunately, most of these animals live in tropical latitudes.
At the same time, it is not sharks or tigers that pose the greatest danger, but creatures of a much smaller size. We have compiled a list of animals that should be feared the most. These are truly the most dangerous animals in the world, many of which claim thousands of human lives every year.
10 Elephant
Opens ten deadliest animals in the world elephant. This animal looks very peaceful in the zoo enclosure, but in the wild it is better not to approach the African and Indian elephant. These animals have a huge body weight and can easily trample a person. You won’t be able to run away: an elephant can move at a speed of 40 km/h. Elephants that have been expelled from the herd are especially dangerous, they are usually very aggressive and attack anything. Hundreds of people die each year from elephant attacks.
9. Rhinoceros
Another very dangerous African animal. The problem is the rhino’s poor eyesight: it attacks any moving target, without even understanding whether it is dangerous for it. You won’t be able to run away from the rhinoceros: it is able to move at a speed of more than 40 km / h.
8. African lion
A lion can kill a person very easily and very quickly. But, as a rule, lions do not prey on people. However, there are tragic exceptions. For example, the famous man-eating lions from Tsavo, who killed more than a hundred people who were building a railway in the depths of the African continent. And only nine months later these animals were killed. Recently in Zambia (in 1991) a lion killed nine people. It is known about a whole pride of lions that lived in the area of Lake Tanganyika and killed and ate from 1500 to 2000 people in three generations, so lions are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.
7. Grizzly bear
Adult grizzly bears are not able to climb a tree in case of danger, as smaller black bears do. Therefore, they choose a different tactic: they defend their territory and attack the attacker. Usually these creatures avoid contact with people, but if you enter bear territory or the beast thinks that you are encroaching on its food, beware, it may attack you. Even more dangerous is the she-bear who guards her cubs. In such cases, the bear can attack and it threatens the death of a person.
6. Great white shark
One of the most dangerous marine animal species for humans. They pose a deadly threat to divers, surfers and people in distress at sea. The shark is a natural killing mechanism. In the event of an attack on a person, the latter has very little chance of escaping.
This animal has a very bad reputation, especially after the release of the book Jaws by Peter Benchley and its subsequent film adaptation. You can also add that there are four types of large sharks that attack people. Since 1990, there have been 139 great white shark attacks on humans, 29 of which ended tragically. The white shark lives in all the southern seas, including the Mediterranean. This animal has a fantastic sense of blood. True, it can be noted that people annually kill several million sharks of various species.
5. Crocodile
A very dangerous animal that can easily kill a person. The crocodile attacks swiftly and the victim simply does not have time to defend himself and respond to the attack. The most dangerous are the saltwater crocodile and the Nile crocodile. Each year, these animals kill hundreds of people in Africa and Southeast Asia. Swamp crocodile, American alligator, American crocodile and black caiman are less deadly, but also dangerous to humans.
4. Hippopotamus
This massive animal is one of the most dangerous in Africa. The hippopotamus is very aggressive towards people, it often attacks a person, and does it for no apparent reason. His sluggishness is very deceptive: an angry hippopotamus is very fast and can easily catch up with a person. Especially dangerous is the attack of a hippopotamus in the water: they easily overturn boats and chase people.
3. Scorpio
This very dangerous and poisonous creature deserved the third place in the rating. most dangerous animals in the world. There are a large number of species of scorpions, all of them are poisonous, but only 25 species of these animals have poison that can cause death to a person. Most of them live in southern latitudes. Often crawls into human dwellings. Thousands of people become victims of scorpions every year.
2. Snake
The snake takes an honorable second place on our list. most dangerous animals in the world. Although not all snakes are poisonous and dangerous, many of them can harm a person, or even kill him. There are 450 species of poisonous snakes on our planet, the bite of 250 of which can lead to death. Most of them live in the southern latitudes. The only positive thing is that snakes rarely attack for no reason. Usually, a person inadvertently steps on a snake and the animal attacks.
1. Mosquito
By themselves, these insects are not so much dangerous as unpleasant. The danger is those diseases that mosquitoes carry. Millions of people die every year from these diseases worldwide. Among this list are such dangerous diseases as yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, tularemia and many others. Particularly affected by mosquito-borne diseases are developing countries near the equator.
Every year, mosquitoes infect about 700 million people on the planet with various ailments and are responsible for 2 million deaths. So, it is the mosquito that is for humans the most dangerous and deadly animal on the planet.