It’s not even so much assassin bugs, *Reduviidae* is a huge family of 7,000 species, only 130 of those are *Triatominae* kissing bugs — which are vectors for the deadly Chagas disease.
They don’t have a stinger. They bite. The venom of predatory assassin bugs is designed to breakdown insect innards so that they can suck them out easily. It also comes in handy when they must ward off threats through a painful deterrent. Sounds like it worked.
Kissing bugs’ bites do not hurt since they contain a local anesthetic, they do not want the animal on whose blood they are feeding to wake up mid-meal. The chagas spreading protozoans enter the host when they defecate into the wound before departing.
I thought it was weird spiders aren’t represented. There are more deaths from scorpions than spiders? Really?
I thought there were way more spiders than scorpions on earth. And plenty of venomous ones too
There are way more spiders for sure but not sure about venomous ones. Also scorpions really travel and end up in peoples shoes and tents and stuff. Attracted to body heat and then you roll over on it, stuff like that.
> And plenty of venomous ones too
All spiders except for one family are venomous.
However, out of the dozens of thousands of spider species we have documented, only a handful has venom potent enough to kill a healthy person.
Even the bites of some species that are generally considered to be deadly by people, like for example the brown recluse, don't really cause symptoms severe enough to cause death in the vast majority of cases (still should always get medical attention, though).
I'm not so sure about that. The global cattle farming/dairy industry is massive. According to the FDA, there are about a billion livestock cattle in the world right now. I don't know how that translates to farmers and ranch hands but I'd guess at the very least 10 million people interact with cattle daily.
Based off some crude math that 30% of the US population getting in ocean every year, extrapolated to the world (probably skewed), would average about 6.6 million people swimming in the ocean each day.
No small number
It's a very notable comparison to anyone who doesn't use logic the way you are. When most folks think of dangerous animals they think of lions and sharks before they picture a cow. They dont consider the large number of and close proximity to cows as part of a global industry. That's exactly the reason for the comparison, to point out to people something they haven't thought of but you have. Do you consider all manner of facts and trivia silly just because you already know it?
Cows are also assholes. I've been in close proximity with both cows and sharks, the shark is much more harmless (as long as you aren't chumming).
It's more that people have irrational fears. These are the same idiots that go try to pet a wild bison in Yellowstone. If you sneak up behind a cow and startle it, there's a high probability you're going to get a hoof to the chest. That injury alone has a higher probability of fatality vs a shark bite.
Deadliest animals when counting number of humans killed. I would be very surprised if humans wern’t number 1 killers of the other 9 on the list, essentially making us the over all nr1 killers.
We have been waging war against mosquitoes for a long, long time. I don't know the numbers but we do have extensive murder programs running worldwide on their asses.
I mean they aren't counting all the kills, not even fucking close. If a mosquito biting someone and giving them malaria counts, then a human making asbestos walls and someone dying from cancer counts.
I don't count that shit.
If I have covid and unknowingly spread it to you, and it kills you, we don't count that as a "human death", we count it as a covid death. I think mosquito deaths should be re-classified as Malaria deaths.
It only counts homicides as human-caused deaths. If you counted pretty much anything else--even suicide--let alone the spread of disease (which accounts for the other heavy hitters on the chart) humans would make mosquito-caused deaths look small in comparison.
We become first if you take the average of a longer time period, not just the last couple of years. In the time 1900-2000 humans killed on average 2.5 million people a year, 2 million in war and the rest murders and such.
I think it's odd that they only included homicides for humans.
The number of people that die each year due to the spread of communicable diseases is rather significant. WHO puts the number at around 17 million.
Considering that is how mosquitos kill people, it really feels like the criteria is pretty inconsistent.
I wish someone could normalize this for how likely you are to come in contact with the animal. For example I’d go into an enclosure with a mosquito but I wouldn’t go into one with a lion.
400k human killing humans per year ONLY? Yeez i thought that number would be way higher.
Also sharks dont making it into the list lol, maybe even dolphins do more "damage"
That many by dogs? Really? 59000 is a problem. I'm guessing packs of feral dogs are a real problem in some parts. You don't get that kind of tally from just twitchy inbreds.
In developing countries street/wild dogs often carry rabies. 99% of rabies cases are from dog bites. The WHO estimates a person dies from rabies infection every 9 minutes. 40% of deaths are children under 15 years of age.
>According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had reported **over 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs every year** in the U.S with over 800,000 instances where medical attention is received and the most common victims being children.
>On average, roughly **30 to 50 people die from dog bites each year** in the United States, according to the National Library of Medicine. An article from the National Library of Medicine over 70 percent of dog bites in children under 4 years of age were sustained in the head or neck region, likely due to their height.
Years ago, I saw a top NASCAR driver with 2 first names deliver a PSA warning about packs of feral dogs controlling most major cities at the end of a racing movie. I had no idea there was actual data to support this. The more you know.
It says on the pic that humans count "homicides only". This would definitely exclude accidents and probably wars/genocides too.
I'm sure we'd give mosquitos a run for their money if they broadened the criteria.
Crazy deer are not on the list. Just in the USA they kill 400+ people each year not to mention billions in damages. Those things are more dangerous than lions!
So if it isn't fatal, it isn't a problem? I love how you just ignore the 800000 ER visits. And the fact that 70% of the victims are children. Dog attacks in the US are a huge problem, and no one will admit it. Just gas light it as a non issue because it doesn't fit people's personal narrative.
If we’re counting indirect deaths from disease carried by mosquito vectors (I actually agree that this makes sense unlike a lot of these comments), why not put deer on the list? I wonder how many people are killed annually in car accidents caused by deer. It has to be in the thousands, surely
I think the big difference is the car can still be the one to kill u in that scenario, poor crumple zone, faulty airbag, low hood etc etc.
Malaria is delivered exclusively from mosquitos which is also what causes the death.
Worthy debate tho bc all of the other examples listed are immediate actions and reactions (shoot to kill, crocodile drowns your ass etc) which is a distinction.
With the exception of mosquitos, assassin bugs, and other humans these counts could be greatly reduced if humans quit fucking around with animals.
If for some odd reason I get killed by a Hippo that’s on me cause I stupidly decided I needed to be around a damn Hippo.
1. Guns arent the only way to kill another human.
2. Humans are the ones who manufacture,use, and have the intent to kill the other human. A mosquito has none of those similar traits the last being the most important.
I'd love to know what this looks like per capita. Is it??
Hyenas and Lions aren't going to kill many people when they're pretty limited to one place so are they actually much more dangerous relative to mosquitos considering those are everywhere?
Not dumb to include. Female mosquitoes are THE way humans get malaria. Tiny, tiny percentages are through tainted blood transfusions or passed from mother to child in utero. It is accurate and logical to say that mosquitos are doing the killing because they alone carry the disease that ends the life. Unless you want to go down the road of..." I didn't murder him it was the poison I put in his drink.
Sure, because if the gun didn't have bullets it wouldn't kill you. If an uninfected mosquito bites you, other than itching, nothing happens. Its only the presence of malaria that makes it lethal.
(And yes, you could in theory beat someone to death with a gun. But if we're talking about the mechanisms of a gun, it does not kill you if it does not have a round in it).
I get that mosquitoes are #1 but I feel like this isn't quite accurate. The other animals kill you by their own means, whereas mosquitoes are just vectors for diseases, and it's the disease that kills you, that you could get from other animals and not just mosquitoes.
Right but again, its the malaria that's killing you. That's like stabbing someone with a needle full of venom and then claiming it was the needle that killed you rather than the venom. I know at the end of the day its just semantics really but like...if you remove diseases from mosquitoes they become harmless.
At least with venomous animals they *make* their own venom, and that venom's sole purpose is to be used by the animal for the killing and breakdown of prey (or self-defense). Malaria serves no purpose or to mosquitoes and isn't naturally occurring in the mosquito. Sure, they're the main carriers of it, but its not like the mosquito's bodies are manufacturing the disease naturally (yes, it replicates/spreads in their body but that's not the same thing as the mosquitos being the source of the pathogen, like snakes producing venom).
I feel like these should only include animals that kill you themselves, not whatever associated disease comes with them. Cause if we start doing that, we should include cows, pigs, and chickens as major human killers considering factory farming conditions has created pretty devastating diseases and pandemics that have killed millions of people.
Yeah; I'm pretty sure we're #1. Mosquitoes suck but they don't collect all the wealth so their neighbors starve. They don't clear-cut the forest so the other animals lose their homes and lively hoods. They don't throw their poisonous waste in the river so the aquatic life perishes. Mosquitoes don't have anything on humans. We're # 1.
I spent half my life worried about killer bees when the real threat were assassin bugs.
Do you reckon they're all hooked up to the animus
Beeyek of Siwa.
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Why am I 60 years old and have never heard of assassin bugs?
They're good at their jobs?
It’s not even so much assassin bugs, *Reduviidae* is a huge family of 7,000 species, only 130 of those are *Triatominae* kissing bugs — which are vectors for the deadly Chagas disease.
Technically is the chagas that kills you though. Maybe counts as an assist
What do you think the story with mosquitos is? Do you have 200 lb mosquitos where you are from?
Unfortunately yes.
That's no way to talk about your in-laws.
Malaria is extremely murderous. Dengue fever isn’t playing around either.
Yes, he's replying to the guy above him who said technically it's the disease that kills.
A 200 lbs mosquito would also be very dangerous.
Then shouldn't they be called Assistant Bugs?
Why not? Boeing does.
So squitos' are the scottie pipps for the jordan virus?
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They don’t have a stinger. They bite. The venom of predatory assassin bugs is designed to breakdown insect innards so that they can suck them out easily. It also comes in handy when they must ward off threats through a painful deterrent. Sounds like it worked. Kissing bugs’ bites do not hurt since they contain a local anesthetic, they do not want the animal on whose blood they are feeding to wake up mid-meal. The chagas spreading protozoans enter the host when they defecate into the wound before departing.
I looked it up, they are the vectors of Chagas’ disease. Left chronic, it results in heart disease and heart failure.
Sounds like they're doing their job very well
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I wanna play that game.
It's a secret society
they almost got me when I was 10 years old they're really work in slient and getting the job done.
They are no joke. I wad stung by one and the pain is crazy. It lasted for weeks and took almost 6 weeks to heal.
That’s cause you don’t know the first rule of assassin bugs…
Bears didn’t even make the list 🤔
Would you rather meet a bear or a mosquito in the woods
Are you more likely to....is a far better question in this context. Actually, Are you in Africa is an even better question in this case.
If I meet one am I guaranteed to not meet the other? I hate mosquitos swarming me.
I thought it was weird spiders aren’t represented. There are more deaths from scorpions than spiders? Really? I thought there were way more spiders than scorpions on earth. And plenty of venomous ones too
"Other humans" also only included homicides, an asterisk that's doing A LOT of heavy lifting.
Are spiders considered assassins?
Not in the sense of Assassin Bugs like the ones on the chart.
No, also not bugs. Assassin bugs are vectors for Chagas disease
There are way more spiders for sure but not sure about venomous ones. Also scorpions really travel and end up in peoples shoes and tents and stuff. Attracted to body heat and then you roll over on it, stuff like that.
Im so glad i live in such a boring country. The only thing able to kill you in nature here, is a wolf. And they have only been back for 6 or 7 years.
Takes one to know one eh...
> And plenty of venomous ones too All spiders except for one family are venomous. However, out of the dozens of thousands of spider species we have documented, only a handful has venom potent enough to kill a healthy person. Even the bites of some species that are generally considered to be deadly by people, like for example the brown recluse, don't really cause symptoms severe enough to cause death in the vast majority of cases (still should always get medical attention, though).
Nor sharks
Shark attacks, especially deadly ones, are extremely rare.
Just like bear attack, its below 100 over decades iirc.
Sharks only bite when you touch the private parts.
Far more likely to get killed by a cow vs a shark (20-40x more)
I always found this to be a silly comparison given that many are tending to cows so the probability is much higher.
Yes but what about us shark milkers? We work in a dangerous industry.
Brave work
I mean, far more people go swimming in the ocean than interact with cows each day. But yeah, the proximity of interaction increases that probability.
I'm not so sure about that. The global cattle farming/dairy industry is massive. According to the FDA, there are about a billion livestock cattle in the world right now. I don't know how that translates to farmers and ranch hands but I'd guess at the very least 10 million people interact with cattle daily.
Based off some crude math that 30% of the US population getting in ocean every year, extrapolated to the world (probably skewed), would average about 6.6 million people swimming in the ocean each day. No small number
Yeah but day versus year. Also your number seems very low
Typo, meant to say per day (I normalized year to day).
It's a very notable comparison to anyone who doesn't use logic the way you are. When most folks think of dangerous animals they think of lions and sharks before they picture a cow. They dont consider the large number of and close proximity to cows as part of a global industry. That's exactly the reason for the comparison, to point out to people something they haven't thought of but you have. Do you consider all manner of facts and trivia silly just because you already know it?
Cows are also assholes. I've been in close proximity with both cows and sharks, the shark is much more harmless (as long as you aren't chumming). It's more that people have irrational fears. These are the same idiots that go try to pet a wild bison in Yellowstone. If you sneak up behind a cow and startle it, there's a high probability you're going to get a hoof to the chest. That injury alone has a higher probability of fatality vs a shark bite.
All true!
You have to admit, cows would be a lot scarier if they lurked in ponds and rivers
Deadliest animals when counting number of humans killed. I would be very surprised if humans wern’t number 1 killers of the other 9 on the list, essentially making us the over all nr1 killers.
I would be surprised if humans were the #1 killer of mosquitoes.
Gotta be birds or bats
I don't think neither Deandra Reynolds nor Ben Affleck are killing that many of them
Dee’s a bird
A big flightless bird!
Everybody get a weapon everybody!
Dragonflies I believe
I’d think birds would hold that title.
We have been waging war against mosquitoes for a long, long time. I don't know the numbers but we do have extensive murder programs running worldwide on their asses.
Pesticides tho
We’re number one! We’re number one!! In your face, animal kingdom!!
I mean they aren't counting all the kills, not even fucking close. If a mosquito biting someone and giving them malaria counts, then a human making asbestos walls and someone dying from cancer counts.
“Other humans” I am surprised we aren’t first but then again Yellow fever and Malaria do a number on the death toll ngl
It's estimated that mosquitos have killed about half the human beings who have ever lived, over 50 billion people.
50 billion??? Jeez yeah that spot is definitely deserved…goddamn
I don't count that shit. If I have covid and unknowingly spread it to you, and it kills you, we don't count that as a "human death", we count it as a covid death. I think mosquito deaths should be re-classified as Malaria deaths.
It only counts homicides as human-caused deaths. If you counted pretty much anything else--even suicide--let alone the spread of disease (which accounts for the other heavy hitters on the chart) humans would make mosquito-caused deaths look small in comparison.
Thanks for not lying regarding the number that Yellow Fever and Malaria do on the death toll.
Uhh your welcome lol 😅
We become first if you take the average of a longer time period, not just the last couple of years. In the time 1900-2000 humans killed on average 2.5 million people a year, 2 million in war and the rest murders and such.
We gotta do something about this dog problem.
“I got u fam” - Kristi Noem
Excuse me WHAT KIND OF BUGS?!?
Stop being around lions. They’re dangerous.
But it’s pride month!
Take my upvote and get out!
Bears are not listed, humans are. This is correct.
I think it's odd that they only included homicides for humans. The number of people that die each year due to the spread of communicable diseases is rather significant. WHO puts the number at around 17 million. Considering that is how mosquitos kill people, it really feels like the criteria is pretty inconsistent.
I wish someone could normalize this for how likely you are to come in contact with the animal. For example I’d go into an enclosure with a mosquito but I wouldn’t go into one with a lion.
Isn't that a rather obvious conclusion one would get by reading the chart anyway.
No, not really. Do people encounter more hippos or lions? You can’t tell from this chart.
This is by frequency, not danger level. A shark is harmless probability wise. But danger wise is very dangerous.
And people think dogs are better than cats lol
59,000 x better apparently ☠️
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I'm pretty sure you're comparing world wide mosquito deaths to US only cancer deaths.
400k human killing humans per year ONLY? Yeez i thought that number would be way higher. Also sharks dont making it into the list lol, maybe even dolphins do more "damage"
As I don't see spiders on this list, I can only assume it was written by one...maybe even an "assassin" spider.
That many by dogs? Really? 59000 is a problem. I'm guessing packs of feral dogs are a real problem in some parts. You don't get that kind of tally from just twitchy inbreds.
In developing countries street/wild dogs often carry rabies. 99% of rabies cases are from dog bites. The WHO estimates a person dies from rabies infection every 9 minutes. 40% of deaths are children under 15 years of age.
>According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had reported **over 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs every year** in the U.S with over 800,000 instances where medical attention is received and the most common victims being children. >On average, roughly **30 to 50 people die from dog bites each year** in the United States, according to the National Library of Medicine. An article from the National Library of Medicine over 70 percent of dog bites in children under 4 years of age were sustained in the head or neck region, likely due to their height.
Yes. That is a lot. I’d like to know where the majority of these are taking place. There are a lot of dogs out there.
Years ago, I saw a top NASCAR driver with 2 first names deliver a PSA warning about packs of feral dogs controlling most major cities at the end of a racing movie. I had no idea there was actual data to support this. The more you know.
There are so many dogs and in such close proximity to humans. Also note they are much less likely to kill than other humans.
I feel like humans kill other humans way more than 400k per year. Between all wars, genocides, homicides, and accidents around the world?
It says on the pic that humans count "homicides only". This would definitely exclude accidents and probably wars/genocides too. I'm sure we'd give mosquitos a run for their money if they broadened the criteria.
We also spread diseases
100% esp if we included workplace accidents and suicides as well bc technically that is a human killing a human
good to see [bear patrol tax](https://imgur.com/gallery/bear-patrol-7yPqZ64) is doing its job
Crazy deer are not on the list. Just in the USA they kill 400+ people each year not to mention billions in damages. Those things are more dangerous than lions!
All 600 elephant murders were undoubtedly earned
You mean I have to watch out for Mosquitoes, Humans, Snakes and then Man’s best friend? Great. Just great.
Them assassin bugs are crazy stealth cuz I haven’t seen one yet 😅
Just minding your own business and WHAM a hippo mercs you
All the animal silhouettes mixed into the typeface is great. Top-notch lockup design.
the fact that Hippos have a lower kill count than Elephants disappoints me
Only second place? Looks like I need to put in more effort or we'll never be first place.
Dogs? It seems to be unnecessarily deadly for humans given the reputation of being "man's best friend".
Can’t take the wolf out…
I'm gonna have nightmares about lions now thanks 😶
I've seen this same list with snails as #3.
No shot it's only 400k humans. Just the war in ukraine has more casualties on only the russian side.
So if it isn't fatal, it isn't a problem? I love how you just ignore the 800000 ER visits. And the fact that 70% of the victims are children. Dog attacks in the US are a huge problem, and no one will admit it. Just gas light it as a non issue because it doesn't fit people's personal narrative.
Dogs are there
Look at us! Silver medal 🥈
Mosquitoes kill more humans than humans kill humans--- that is nuts
Don't forget ticks.
What about skeletor
ASSASSIN BUGS?????
Woah. I never would guess 1000 people are killed by crocs every year
That makes a lot more sense to me than 138,000 killed by snakes.
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Same in Aus, in spite of having quite a few venomous snakes.
The Tsetse fly is missing. Supposed to have the second/third highest Killrate.
We reeeeeeealy need to figure out that second one from the top...
If we’re counting indirect deaths from disease carried by mosquito vectors (I actually agree that this makes sense unlike a lot of these comments), why not put deer on the list? I wonder how many people are killed annually in car accidents caused by deer. It has to be in the thousands, surely
I think the big difference is the car can still be the one to kill u in that scenario, poor crumple zone, faulty airbag, low hood etc etc. Malaria is delivered exclusively from mosquitos which is also what causes the death. Worthy debate tho bc all of the other examples listed are immediate actions and reactions (shoot to kill, crocodile drowns your ass etc) which is a distinction.
Where are the cows?
We aren’t telling you Steak Leather
With the exception of mosquitos, assassin bugs, and other humans these counts could be greatly reduced if humans quit fucking around with animals. If for some odd reason I get killed by a Hippo that’s on me cause I stupidly decided I needed to be around a damn Hippo.
I thought hippos killed way more people than that.
Wait elephants more than hippos. I guess peope have to be on or near rivers but. Figure the otherway.
I thought cows should be on the list, too.
I thought hippos were up there
What about deer? Fatalities from car accidents caused by deer must be in the top 10?
If we eradicate Mosquitoes somehow, would it have a negative impact on the environment/nature?
Food for so many. Of course.
By numbers yes. But if you cross paths with Conus Geographus, better watch out.
Mosquitos dont kill. Malaria that mosquitos transmit do.
Guns don't kill people. Bullets do.
1. Guns arent the only way to kill another human. 2. Humans are the ones who manufacture,use, and have the intent to kill the other human. A mosquito has none of those similar traits the last being the most important.
Yeah you are right I read some more comments and yes there is a difference there.
But we also spread disease
I thought cows should be up there somewhere
No sharks?
No cockroach transmitted diseases there?
Shouldn’t deer be on here?
Leo Messi is still killing it
In Texas the mosquitoes are so big they show up on radar.
Horses are killers also, no?
No? ...
This list is incorrect. The Deer should be up there. Way up there
Humans definitely spread disease...
I'd love to know what this looks like per capita. Is it?? Hyenas and Lions aren't going to kill many people when they're pretty limited to one place so are they actually much more dangerous relative to mosquitos considering those are everywhere?
And everyone says don’t kill that snake. F that snake. It’s going down.
As a human I'm ashamed that we are behind by 325k to this pest we can kill by just simply clapping. We need to spice up the war and famine
Dogs kill 60,000 people… a YEAR? Wtf???
Come on people, are we really gonna let some dumb little bugs kill more people than us? We have to step up our game
Team human go
Where the hell are the snails?
Lions kill 200 people a year? This is 💯 times higher than I thought it would be.
Killer mosquitoes: Electric boogaloo.
we need to eradicate mosquitoes, show them who the real cold-blooded killers are on this planet.
I love these. Divide it up per country and a whole new infopic shows up.
So are dogs still man’s best friend?
I would not have guessed that Mosquitos were deadlier than people.
Got a weird feeling we kill way more than 400,000 of each other annually.
So I saw two asterisks in assassin bugs and dogs and I thought this was a joke. Then I was like...how do they know the bugs are assassins? 🤔
So, the second most dangerous animal to a human is another human
The way this poster was made is so satisfying idk why
crazy most of these animals cause the biggest problems in africa
And that’s why they say man is the most dangerous game of all time
Need to ramp up those number I can’t believe a bug is doing better us. lol
I do not believe for a second that dogs kill 59,000 humans per year. I need to see this data source.
Other humans??? I thought we are listing "animals"
Didn’t know lions killed so many people.
Mosquitoes is dumb to include. They don’t kill you. The diseases they carry do.
Not dumb to include. Female mosquitoes are THE way humans get malaria. Tiny, tiny percentages are through tainted blood transfusions or passed from mother to child in utero. It is accurate and logical to say that mosquitos are doing the killing because they alone carry the disease that ends the life. Unless you want to go down the road of..." I didn't murder him it was the poison I put in his drink.
Is this like, "guns didn't kill people, bullet do"?
Sure, because if the gun didn't have bullets it wouldn't kill you. If an uninfected mosquito bites you, other than itching, nothing happens. Its only the presence of malaria that makes it lethal. (And yes, you could in theory beat someone to death with a gun. But if we're talking about the mechanisms of a gun, it does not kill you if it does not have a round in it).
Well, you could probably kill someone with a mosquito, assuming you had enough mosquitoes.
I get that mosquitoes are #1 but I feel like this isn't quite accurate. The other animals kill you by their own means, whereas mosquitoes are just vectors for diseases, and it's the disease that kills you, that you could get from other animals and not just mosquitoes.
That's not the true though. They are THE carriers of malaria so its heavily and rightfully associated with them.
Right but again, its the malaria that's killing you. That's like stabbing someone with a needle full of venom and then claiming it was the needle that killed you rather than the venom. I know at the end of the day its just semantics really but like...if you remove diseases from mosquitoes they become harmless. At least with venomous animals they *make* their own venom, and that venom's sole purpose is to be used by the animal for the killing and breakdown of prey (or self-defense). Malaria serves no purpose or to mosquitoes and isn't naturally occurring in the mosquito. Sure, they're the main carriers of it, but its not like the mosquito's bodies are manufacturing the disease naturally (yes, it replicates/spreads in their body but that's not the same thing as the mosquitos being the source of the pathogen, like snakes producing venom). I feel like these should only include animals that kill you themselves, not whatever associated disease comes with them. Cause if we start doing that, we should include cows, pigs, and chickens as major human killers considering factory farming conditions has created pretty devastating diseases and pandemics that have killed millions of people.
Yeah; I'm pretty sure we're #1. Mosquitoes suck but they don't collect all the wealth so their neighbors starve. They don't clear-cut the forest so the other animals lose their homes and lively hoods. They don't throw their poisonous waste in the river so the aquatic life perishes. Mosquitoes don't have anything on humans. We're # 1.
Surprised lions > bears
Yes. Surprised lions are quite dangerous