Most of us love animals. What could be better than visiting the zoo or family watching a movie about wildlife on TV.However, there are animals that pose a serious threat to people and such "brothers of our smaller" better bypass the tenth road. Fortunately, most of these animals live in tropical latitudes.
In this case, the greatest danger is not sharks or tigers, and creatures of much smaller size. We have compiled a list of animals that should be feared most. These are indeed the most dangerous animals in the world, many of which take thousands of lives each year.
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Elephant
Opens the top ten of the most deadly animals in the world elephant. This animal looks very peaceful in the enclosure of the zoo, but in the wild to the African and Indian elephant it is better not to approach. These animals have a huge body weight and can easily trample a person. You can not escape: the elephant can move at a speed of 40 km / h. Especially dangerous are the elephants that were expelled from the herd, they are usually very aggressive and attack anything. Every year, several hundred people die from the attack of elephants.
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Rhinoceros
Another very dangerous African animal. The problem is in the poor vision of the rhinoceros: he attacks any moving target, without even deciphering whether it is dangerous for him. Escape from the rhino does not work: it is able to move at a speed of more than 40 km / h.
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African lion
Lion can very easily and very quickly kill a person. But, as a rule, lions do not hunt people. Although there are also tragic exceptions. For example, the famous man-eating lions from Tsavo, who killed more than a hundred people who built a railway in the depths of the African continent. And only after nine months these animals managed to kill. Recently in Zambia( in 1991) the lion killed nine people. It is known about the whole lion pride, which inhabited Lake Tanganyika and killed and ate from 1500 to 2000 for three generations, so lions are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.
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Grizzly Bear
Adult grizzly bears are not able to climb a tree in case of danger, as do smaller black bears. Therefore, they choose a different tactic: they defend their territory and attack the attacker. Usually, these creatures avoid contact with people, but if you go to bear territory or the beast thinks that you are encroaching on its food - beware, it can attack you. Even more dangerous is the bear, which guards its bear cubs. In such cases, a bear can attack and this threatens to kill a person.
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Great White Shark
One of the most dangerous marine animal species for humans. Represent a mortal threat to divers, surfers and people who have suffered a disaster at sea. A shark is a nature-created mechanism for killing. In the event of an attack on a person, the latter has very little chance of escape.
This animal has a very bad reputation, especially after the release of Peter Benchley's book "Jaws" and its subsequent adaptation. You can also add that there are only four kinds of large sharks that attack humans. Since 1990, there have been 139 attacks of a large white shark on people, 29 of which ended tragically. The white shark lives in all the southern seas, including the Mediterranean Sea. This animal has a fantastic sense of blood. However, it can be noted that people kill several million sharks of different species every year.
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Crocodile
A very dangerous animal that can easily kill a person. The crocodile attacks swiftly and the victim just does not have time to defend himself and react to the attack. The most dangerous are the marine crocodile and the Nile crocodile. Each year, these animals kill hundreds of people in Africa and Southeast Asia. The marsh crocodile, the American alligator, the American crocodile and the black caiman are less deadly, but also a danger to humans.
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Behemoth
This massive animal is one of the most dangerous in Africa. Behemoth is very aggressive towards people, it often attacks a person, and does it for no apparent reason. His slowness is very deceptive: an angry behemoth is very fast and can easily catch up with a man. Especially dangerous is the attack of the hippopotamus in the water: they easily turn the boats and pursue people.
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Scorpio
This very dangerous and poisonous creature earned the third place in the rating of the world's most dangerous animals .There are a large number of scorpion species, all of them are poisonous, but only 25 species of these animals have a poison that can cause human death. Most of them live in the southern latitudes. Often creeps into human dwellings. Scouts of scorpions annually become thousands of people.
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Snake
The snake takes the honorable second place in our list of 's most dangerous animals in the world .Although not all snakes are poisonous and dangerous, but many of them can cause a person harm, and even kill him. On our planet, there are 450 species of poisonous snakes, a bite of which 250 can lead to death. Most of them live in the southern latitudes. The only positive thing is that snakes rarely attack without a reason. Usually, a person inadvertently steps on a snake and the animal attacks.
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Mosquito
In itself, these insects are not so dangerous as unpleasant. The danger is represented by those diseases of which mosquitoes are carriers. Every year millions of people die from these diseases on the planet. Among this list are such dangerous diseases as yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, tularemia and many others. The developing countries, which are located near the equator, suffer especially from diseases inflicted by mosquitoes.
Annually mosquitoes infect about 700 million people on the planet with various ailments and are responsible for 2 million deaths. So, it is the mosquito that is for the person the most dangerous and deadly animal on the planet .
