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Top 10 Animals More Likely To Kill You Than Sharks

Saturday, February 1, 2014 20:42

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Overall, you’re more likely to be killed by a coconut falling on your head or by slipping in the bathtub than from being attacked by a pit bull or a shark. But, which 10 animals are more likely to kill you? More likely than sharks, tigers, elephants etc. Let’s find out….

10. Jellyfish

Jellyfish are strange creatures with gossamer bodies and long streamers of stingers. In an aquarium, they are a the art of beauty, but in the ocean they can be attributed to unexpected human death! The box jellyfish is also known as the sea wasp, and is the killer of the ocean. Forget the shark, the box jellyfish can cause death or, at the very least, a lot of pain.

Jellyfish use their stinging tentacles to get their food. Their stingers not only kill plankton and small fish, but are also used to direct the killed food up towards the jellyfishes mouth where the food is quickly eaten by the mouth. What’s interesting about jellyfish is that they don’t actually have hearts, bones, or even a brain. They merely act and feed because of nerve impulses.

9. Ostrich

Lone ostrich want to bite your face off for no reason, then prance around you in circles at 42 m.p.h. while shrieking and chewing. Just look at how pissed off and ready to face-bite this particularly horrifying ostrich is. Look into this ostrich’s eyes, and you will realize it is a godless killing machine.

You’d think the safest place for animals is usually a zoo. That apparently was not the case in China. In 2013, at a zoo in China’s Guangdong province, a man was bit and killed by the large flightless bird as part of an elaborate suicide attempt.

8. Wolf.

Like all the other animals on this list, a wolf’s diet does not typically consist of humans. However, up to several hundred human deaths have been attributed to wolves in any given year.

7. Scorpion.

Known as one of the oldest creatures to ever live on earth, scorpions evolved from sea-dwelling creatures to land menaces about 340 million years ago. Around 1,300 to 2,000 species of scorpions exist in the world but only 25 of them have poison that is dangerous enough to kill humans. Nevertheless, anywhere between 1,000 to 5,000 people are killed by scorpions annually.

6. Tsetse Fly.

The Tsetse fly easily spreads the African sleeping sickness, which affects as many as 500,000 people, 80% of whom eventually die. These flies are bloodsuckers, originating from the genus Glossina. They occur only in tropical Africa and are important as vectors of African trypanosomiasis in both humans and animals.