Top 10: the most dangerous animals in the world

What is the animal that kills the most humans a year? Spoiler: It's not the sharks.

Here is a morbid question: which animals kill the most humans every year?

Although Hollywood movies suggest our biggest threats are sharks and wild monkeys, the deadliest creatures are often much smaller and more likely to kill through disease than with razor-sharp teeth.

But which is the creature that kills the most people on Earth? Check out the top 10 below.
 

10. Lion

(Kills 200 people per year)
 

9. Hippo

(Kills 500 people per year)
 

8. Elephant

(Kills 600 people per year)
 

7. Crocodile

(Kills 1,000 people per year)
 

6. Scorpio

(Kills 3,300 people per year)
 

5. Bedbug Triatominae (Chagas disease)

(Kills 10,000 people per year)
 

4. Dog (anger)

(Kills 59,000 people per year)
 

3. Snake

(Kills 138,000 people per year)
 

2. Man (murder only)

(Kills 400,000 people per year)
 

1. Mosquito

(Kills 725,000 people annually through the spread of diseases such as malaria)
 

Protect yourself and your family:

• Custom mosquito nets
• Mosquito nets for windows
• Mosquito nets for doors
• Pleated mosquito nets
• Magnetic mosquito nets
• DIY mosquito nets
• Anti bedbugs mosquito nets

 

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