Human deaths/year: Unknown living in the rainforest of colombia, this frog’s skin is coated with enough batrachotoxins to kill at least ten men.
09 Box Jellyfish :Chironex Fleckeri
Human deaths: at least 60 since 1883 each of the sea wasp’s tentacles is armed with about 5000 stinging cells.
08 Sloth Bear :Melursus Ursinus
Human deaths/year: <2 like other bear species, sloth bears don’t predate humans, but chance encounters can result in deaths
07 Great White Shark :Carcharodon Carcharias
Human deaths/year: <30 unprovoked shark attacks on humans are extremely rare – and fatalities even rarer. Great white, tiger and bull sharks are responsible for most.
06 Lion :Panthera Leo
Human deaths/year: ≤100 lion attacks on humans often occur during harvests, but rare outbreaks of mass ‘man eating’ also occur.
05 African Elephant :Loxodonta Africana
Human deaths/year: ≤300 elephants probably kill a few hundred people annually – though more than 20,000 elephants are killed by poachers each year.
04 Nile Crocodile :Crocodylus Niloticus
Human deaths/year: >300 Attacks by this large reptile on people on the water or on riverbacks are relatively frequent in Africa.
03 Hippopotamus :Hippopotamus Amphibius
Human deaths/year: <3,000 Accurate figures are hard to obtain, but hippos are certainly responsible for many deaths every year in Africa
02 Asian cobra :Naja Naja
Human deaths/year: ≤50,000 though not India’s most venomous snake, this cobra is responsible for the majority of snakebite deaths.
01 Mosquito :Anopheles Spp.
Human deaths/year: 2 million Bites from these insects transmit the plasmodium blood parasites that cause malaria.
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