@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 😂
@Sheril Yep...no surprises there...just wait until climate change means mosquitoes carrying malaria, dengue, chikungunya, etc are at the doorstep of more developed nations. It will cripple them...
@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.
@Sheril Since many of the animals listed are harmless - only the zoonoses (viruses, bacteria, parasites) they bring with them kill - humans remain the worst enemy of humans. Even more so, because indirectly caused deaths such as heat deaths, etc. are probably not included.
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