Deadliest Animals to Humans

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Pretty 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.

You 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-...

Dogs kill 25,000 people every year. They is an insane number which makes me think it cannot be right.

Good catch! The article attributes it to rabies, but the linked source (broken, by the way) lists prairie dogs!!

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