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- Jon211, on 10/11/2007, -1/+43Doesn't seem all that accurate.
If the mosquito is no 1 then presumably they're basing it on number of human deaths caused by the animal?
In that case why is the great white shark at no 4 when they're only responsible for a few attacks per year? - xDFuNK, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39i think you mean apostrophe....
- djvchris, on 10/11/2007, -5/+38I hate it when I can't get my coma to work. Damn you modern medicine.
- macaddct1984, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30But the mosquito doesn't actually kill people, it's merely a vector for parasites and diseases. You might as well put humans at the top because they're spreading AIDS...
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26So far my experience in the me vs mosquito realm is 1000s of them dead to 0 of me dead. Maybe one day they'll get me. While I haven't actually encountered and engaged an African Tiger or even a Polar bear in the wild, I'm willing to bet my success rate will be much lower.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28You mean comma?
Then there's the idiotic tendency of people on Digg to post titles like "Top 10 deadliest". Think about it: Is this a list of the 10 deadliest animals? Then WTF is "top" doing there? Why stop there? How about "Top 10 most deadliest"?
It's the 10 deadliest animals. Period. - derricklorah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- fatloui, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Hippos are definitely more dangerous than elephants (out of any animal in africa, with the exception of those disease spreaders, they kill the most people per year). Leopards are definitely more dangerous than lions.
- imeddy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15no Hippo?
But I agree with secretwhistle, #1 should be Man. - secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I always thought it was man...
- pikepace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I know there were a bunch of movies, but how often do people encounter great white sharks? Polar bears... did Stephen Colbert write this?
- nonsapiens, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12African Lion = not so vicious.
I live in South Africa, and my brother is a game ranger on the Botswana border. Lions aren't a problem. They're pretty lazy and I've walked past them as they lie in the shade. Just never run away from one, then they'll chase you. Stand your ground, yell, throw rocks, whatever. They're not sure how to handle something that stays put and fights back.
Elephants, on the other hand, are far more dangerous. - chopenik, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Mosquitos are probably responsible for more human deaths than all others combine. Just imagine the spread of disease they cause.
- Johann4u, on 10/11/2007, -4/+155. African Lion... Vicious
4. Great White Shark... Badass
3. Australian Box Jellyfish... Creepy
2. Asian Cobra... Expected but still cool
1. Mosquito... Huge Letdown - Sarzec, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11No chupacabra?
- fishrjv, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11If they're ranking mosquito as #1 based on how many humans it kills, then how the hell is polar bear on this list? How many people have regular contact with polar bears, let alone get killed by them??
- nathan2480, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10"#1 threat? That's right, BEARS!"
- Spacecow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I'm glad they thought to include the box jellyfish. Those guys are pretty much little bags of doom.
- hockey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11But not just any man though.
That honor belongs to Chuck Norris. - nonsapiens, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9There are no wild tigers in Africa...
- lighty14, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Cape Buffalo = Africa Buffalo != American Bison
- TehSwat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Raptors?
- Sharky35, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Top ten things some jackass who wrote this article is afraid of.
- snypa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I'm surprised the hippopotamus isn't on that list, they cause more deaths by an animal in Africa than any other.
List seemds a bit flawed to me. - macaddct1984, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Actually this is one of the nicer split lists because it's only refreshing the one frame.
- woojoo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Sting ray...?
- myeyesarered, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6what a ridiculous ranking:
Mosquitoes aren't the only animals who can transfer parasites, diseases etc.
the whole ranking is just based on randomness - grumpyrain, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Do a search for Malaria, Filariasis, Ross River Fever, Yellow Fever, or Dengue Fever (just to name a few) and you will see why it is at number 1.
- cycledance, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6good list. but in terms of human casualties and aggressiveness the hippopotamus is hard to top. and its missing.
- luigi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7That question mark as an apostrophe problem usually happens when text written in Microsoft Word is copy and pasted into a CMS that doesn't support Word's smart quotes formatting:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Microsoft-Word-Smart-Quotes-and-Article-Marketers-Dont-Mix&id=15624 - daonlyfreez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5True, hippo is far more dangerous than croc/alligator. Hippo's attack.
- thotpoizn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Kinda iffy... If it's "deadliest to humans" then we should have some microscopic villains in there, things responsible for pneumonia and other infections, etc. Yeah that's lame, but so is the mosquito as #1, and if an insect is going to be considered an "animal" why not a bacteria? If it's the "largest number of kills of any kind, evar!" then how do giant krill / plankton eating whales not make the list? Finally, if it's all about destructive killing potential, where are those giant scary-ass tigers who would eat a lion and crap fuzzy slippers?
- Then again, I'm probably taking this waaaay to seriously... ;) - CeeJayDK, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Reminds me of this futurama clip : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwUdL9qXjk
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Those livescience.com lists always have some sort of twist at the end. And they got me again.
- vafada, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Mosquito has always been the deadliest animal. Even if you watch Discovery Channel, mosquito always tops the deadliest animal list.
- imacumpewter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5they can smell the menstruation...
- GoDawgs7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3They left off the cassowary. It's apparently a descendant of the velocoraptor. An absolutely terrifying bird.
"Cassowaries, deftly using their surroundings to conceal their movements, have been known to out-flank organized groups of human predators."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary - SmackMyMac, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Cape Buffalo? Really?
The Indians didn't seem to have a problem.
Maybe Cape Buffalo w/laser guided missles on back. - debarros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5What about "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka ?"
- Scopitone, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I hate pages like that. Couldn't they just put them all on one page to avoid us having to ...oh wait, they need to subject us to their ads. My bad.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3
***** sapiens can kill you faster than that any other animal. - gregatron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I thought number one would be Chuck Norris
- GeorgeTirebiter, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Saw this movie once which documented a rabbit guarding the entrance to a cave. This particular rabbit should have been included in the top ten.
- The_Dude, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Well in Utah currently, it's gotta be the black bear. Makes me nervous because I just talked with my folks in northern Vermont on the weekend and they talked about a black bear coming right in the back yard. I says "you got a big gun yet?" Dad: "naw, they're harmless..."
note to self: get Dad big, old gun. - troglodytejb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@Gothicx and Achalemoipas
I'd stop and both reconsider. Gothicx, he does have an excellent point. Polar bears are a minuscule threat to humans, especially considering that the highest population density of bears is on Svalbard, a Canadian archipelago completely uninhabited by humans. Given that there are only 20,000 polar bears in the world total, it is highly unlikely that they would stray near a human civilization, especially since their physiology is extremely well adapted to snow, ice, and frozen water, and in many ways depends on cold temperatures.
That said, 60% of the polar bear population lives in Canada, and it isn't beyond the realm of speculation that rural northern Canadians regularly- or at least not-uncommonly- encounter wild polar bears, making Gothicx and previous posters points somewhat valid. Keep in mind, the choice to carry a gun has nothing to with the threat presented by someone or something, but rather the perceived threat. A bear is a scary beast, and if I saw one close to my home, I'd carry a rifle too, just in case. - designerutah, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Ten Deadliest Animals?
And the number 1 ranking is an insect? Not deadly in its own right either, just as a disease vector? Even worse, they lumped all mosquitos together, but specified what type of cobra, bear, big cat, etc. At least go through the effort of comparing apples to apples. All the other "animals" on the list can kill humans by their size, natural equipment, or self-produced poison/venom. The mosquito does it by... carrying disease. If that's the criteria, why isn't the disease itself listed? Really, what's the top 10 deadliest "critters" (animals, insects, bacteria, etc.) on good old planet Earth? - iamnos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Having actually seen the polar bears around Churchill, I can say this. I wouldn't want to be on the ground anywhere near one. They are huge, and as the tour guides said, can easily rip off arms and legs without much effort. That being said, they are not generally a violent animal. They are an amazing site though. If you have an opportunity, I do recommend seeing them in their natural habitat. They are beautiful animals.
- techmaster, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6How could the black mamba not even be on that list? What a stupid list.
- trollick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Stingray is apparently much more deadly than a crocodile.
- Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Australia could fill all ten spots on this list: Taipan, brown snake, box jellyfish, funnel web spider, cassowary (kicks your guts out), drop bear, crocodile, blue-ringed octopus, stone fish and witchety grub.
And that's just the ones in my back yard. -
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