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Cattle are equally, if not more, dangerous, and also kill over 500 people a year in the US
by iancmceachern 3y ago
Cattle are equally, if not more, dangerous, and also kill over 500 people a year in the US
- chimeracoder 3y ago> Cattle are equally, if not more, dangerous, and also kill over 500 people a year in the US According to the CDC, it's closer to 25/year[0] (108 over 4 years). And that's just raw totals, not accounting for populations size or the relative likelihood of encounters. People underestimate how dangerous cows are, but hippos are way more aggressive and dangerous. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5829a2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5829a2.htm
- bombcar 3y agoAlso I've seen cows alongside the road many times (as required by international law, you have to moo at them) - but I've never seen a hippo except in a zoo.
- stephenhuey 3y agoThere are a little over 100,000 hippos in the world and almost 100 million cattle in the USA, so on a per capita basis it's not even close! My grandfather raised cattle in Texas and we had to be aware at times, but the level of caution was nowhere near the extent needed when my brother and friends went fishing for giwan ruwa ("river elephant" aka Nile perch) in a remote part of Nigeria, because hippos were nearby! And when my friends took a 3-day canoe trip down the Zambezi River, the guides were vigilant about hippos more than anything else, because they are very aggressive when they feel threatened and they can bite a crocodile in half. Cattle are domesticated animals, but hippos are wild!
- iancmceachern 3y agoTrue, but comparing a domesticated animal in a feed lot to wild animals doesn't really track. Comparing hippo deaths in captive populations, like in zoos, ate more comparable to domesticated farm animals.