Most Dangerous Animals on the PLanet

10 Poison Dart Frog: Phyllobates Terribilis

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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