Hard to overstate how mosquitoes are the deadliest creature known to man: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies...
Seems we're second.
A quick google search turned this up: https://coloradoinjurylaw.com/blog/dog-bite-statistics/
> Rabid dogs are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 25,000 people per year. In countries where dogs commonly carry rabies they are involved in up to 99% of infections, according to the WHO. Countries with large numbers of stray dogs, including India, are the worst affected. According to the WHO, about 36% of the world's rabies deaths - 20,000 of about 55,000 deaths worldwide - occur in India each year, most of those when children come into contact with infected dogs.
> Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
It's not the mosquitoes that kill us.
Bears don't kill people. Lacerations from their teeth and claws do.
Is it the blood loss, or the stopping of the heart?
Is it the stopping of the heart, or oxygen starvation of the brain?
Is it the oxygen starvation of the brain, or the chemical breakdown therein?
Is it the chemical breakdown of the brain, or the resulting changed perception of others causing them to ascribe the very human and sometimes subjective label “dead” to the subject of the bear’s attentions?
Or is it the victim's ancestors, who made sure they were alive in the first place, thus setting the stage for their guaranteed death?
Though fun-fact: California used to have an endemic subspecies of Grizzly bear that was entirely wiped out by the European settlers. I can’t really fault them for this... times were tough back then. Some Grizzly Bears have re-enter California from the north in more recent times.
Makes me realize that in certain contexts ecological preservation is a privilege. If there’s a 2% chance a Grizzly is going to kill my darling child Timmy, I’m okay with wiping them out and worrying about the ramifications later. I’m not going to risk little Timmy being eaten to preserve some amorphous concept of natural balance. Fortunately we don’t live in that world any longer. (And >0.05% risk of Timmy being eaten is acceptable to me, since this is on par with many other risks)
And also useless! But at least you're right: it does fit in well here.