Chris Fonnesbeck
Sheril KirshenbaumWhat's the world's deadliest animal?
The answer may surprise you. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito-Week #science #nature
KanaMauna
llewelly@Sheril
"snake" lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.
"mosquito", likewise, lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.
by contrast, "dog" is only one species, as is "human".
Erik Haugen
Fierce, Lord Pankake@Sheril However, the question "what is the most WILFULLY deadly animal?" would have mankind on top.
Rebecca Bryn
SpaceLifeFormWithout reading this, can I pick Homo Sapiens?
Dan@SpaceLifeForm @Sheril second place behind mosquitoes
Leszek KarlikWeirdly enough, we could significantly reduce the number of deaths caused by malaria by assigning financial funds for this purpose (or, even simpler, by ending secrecy jurisdictions and corporate practices that rob global South countries of tax revenue they could use to prevent malaria).
So a lot of "malaria" deaths really should go to "humans", not mosquitoes, just as human-made famines are the responsibility of humans, not of weather or potato blight or whatever.
Because those people are dying only to increase shareholder value of global North corporations which steal money from the poor to give to the rich. Sorry, "optimize their taxes", if you buy yourself enough politicians you can legalize your theft.
KidsData@Sheril Mosquitoes! 🦟
(We didn't even have to peek! But humans aren't *that* far behind...)
(We didn't even have to peek! But humans aren't *that* far behind...)
Iron Curtain (Chiptunes)@Sheril [without looking] It's humans.
Steve Easterbrook@Sheril The idea that mosquitoes are more deadly than humans is just bizarre. I mean, annual road traffic deaths alone are more than 1.3 million. Add to that a quarter of million gun-related deaths, 100K deaths from war (likely vastly under-counted), and that's even before we get into questions of counting death from human-caused climate change, environmental destruction, pollution, drug policy, homelessness, etc.
krutor@steve sounds like that was the method, maybe good for an article, but still incomplete, maybe some would combine that article with something like that: ourworldindata.org/biodiversit…
sorry to @Sheril for my "hyper criticism".
enjoy your day everyone
sorry to @Sheril for my "hyper criticism".
enjoy your day everyone
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🇰🇷🌮@Sheril Fingers crossed it's the Australian Drop Bear
gmoke@Sheril The deadliest animal on Earth is homo sap sap (that sap)
Much, much deadlier than roundworms.
Much, much deadlier than roundworms.
Ford EytouMosquito's created #skynet
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥@Sheril I turned this into a guessing game and had it right 😊
Barry Goldman@Sheril wuts up with snakes?
Trish (old account)@Sheril Seriously surprised that house cats aren't on the list. The times my cat has tried to trip me on the stairs...
Silver MooseThis seems an excessively human-centric list.
For us poor moose, ticks would have to be way up near the top killer:
And those nasty evil bears would have to be on the list too.
Winter ticks wiped out nearly 90% of the moose calves scientists tracked in part of Maine last year
Maine is home to the largest moose population in the lower 48 states. But the iconic species is being challenged by ticks and climate change. In one of the moosiest parts of Maine, nearly 90 percent of the calves tracked by biologists last winter didn’t survive their first year.
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nafri@Sheril i was hoping to see cows there
@Sheril Humans
CrazyMyra@Sheril Keeping to the small numbers for a moment, I'm glad to see figures that confirm what we in countries where these critters exist outside of zoos keep saying: hippo are way more dangerous than lion 😂
itthinx@Sheril The correct answer is Homo Sapiens and unfortunately not surprising at all:
Humans have caused on average over 1,600,000 human casualties per year in major wars alone since WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Moreover, the death and destruction that humans have caused to other species on this planet is beyond anyone's imagination.
Yet we must sustain hope and contribute to the development of a much more kind, considerate and humble coexistence.
Mirco Wilhelm@Sheril no cows? That can‘t be right
AI8W@Sheril My whole life the answer to that question has been "Humans".... has that changed?