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Deadliest Animals to Humans
- haltingproblem 6y agoDogs kill 25,000 people every year. They is an insane number which makes me think it cannot be right.
- cocoapuffs7 6y agoGood catch! The article attributes it to rabies, but the linked source (broken, by the way) lists prairie dogs!!
- Udik 6y agoPretty uninteresting list. At least danger should be estimated by encounter: huge numbers of humans are killed by other humans, does that mean I should be more afraid when I encounter a human or, say, a polar bear? Also confusing direct killings with transmission of diseases makes little sense.
- cocoapuffs7 6y agoYou don't think it's interesting that snails make the list? [0] Or that deaths by mosquito top those of the current pandemic? How do you 'estimate' danger? Sure, the recording is an aggregate. What's a more suitable format? Shouldn't this already exist in Science rather than Wikipedia? Besides, > This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. [0] Perhaps they knew something already? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-knights-always-fighting-snails-1728888/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-...