10. RAIN FOREST FROG
Poison dart frogs are some of the most colorful animals on earth. Their bright hues and ostentatious patterns act as a warning for predators. Depending on their location in therain forests extending from Costa Rica to Brazil, the frogs can be red, orange, yellow, gold, blue, green, or black. Their venom is powerful enough to kill ten men and exudes from their skin; this is why natives of this region rub darts against them to use in their own hunting.
9. CAPE BUFFALO
The cape buffalo is a cow-like herbivore native to Africa. It is considered one of the "Big 5" animals particularly sought by hunters. The other animals in the Big 5 are elephants, lions, leopards, and rhinoceros, all prized because of their viciousness; big game hunters who only succeed in wounding the buffalo are stalked and attacked in turn. But a single buffalo isn't much danger when confronted by a heard. The cape buffalo often roams with thousands of others.
8. POLAR BEAR
Polar bears are the largest meat-eater living on land. They roam the ice floes of the extreme northern arctic region hunting seals. They are excellent swimmers and have been spotted swimming fifty miles from any land or ice floe. Although polar bears are usually shy, the mothers are extremely protective of their cubs, and will attack viciously when there is a perceived threat.
7. AFRICAN ELEPHANT
The largest land mammal is the African elephant. They weigh an average of 16,000 pounds, and both males and females have ivory tusks. For thousands of year a popular form of execution in Southeast Asia was crushing by elephant. Today, elephants account for around 500 deaths per year.
6. SALT WATER CROCODILE
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile on the planet; mature males can reach a length twenty-three feet. They are opportunistic hunters and will wait in the murky water until their prey stops for a drink. A crocodile will explode out of the water, grab its victim in powerful jaws (they can have a bite force of 3900 pounds per square inch), and drag it back into the water where it will drown and dismember its prey.
5. AFRICAN LION
African lions are the only cats to live in a group. This makes them especially deadly hunters. The females of the pride work together to prey upon the other animals of the African Savannah. Most of these are faster than the lions, so coordinated hunting is a must.
4. GREAT WHITE SHARK
The movie, Jaws, put a not unjustified terror of this shark into millions of people. The Great White can grow up to twenty feet long, weigh 5000 pounds, and its massive jaws contain 3000 serrated, razor-sharp teeth. Since 1876 this shark has been responsible for 65 deaths worldwide. Although humans are not usually considered prey by sharks, one that kills a human and ingests a human will often become a man-killer, hunting along beaches for easy prey i.e. swimmers!
3. AUSTRALIAN BOX JELLY-FISH
This animal is the most venomous marine creature known to man, and its sting is often fatal. Each tentacle has 5000 sting cells with enough toxin to kill 60 men. The venom in this jellyfish is cardiotoxic, neurotoxic, and dermatonecrotic. This means that the toxin affects the heart, nerves, and skin; victims with extensive contact to the tentacles experience cardiac arrest within minutes. The pain of the sting is so severe that the victim will often go into shock, which can lead to drowning if they are swimming alone. The tentacles also stick to the skin, constantly releasing the toxins, and cause necrosis, or the eating away of the affected area.
2. ASIAN COBRA
Although these snakes seldom attack unprovoked, they are responsible for thousands of deaths each year in India alone. It is not the most venomous snake out there, but it does bite the most people, and the bites don't respond well to anti-venom; the tissue around the bite will continue to suffer damage and break down after the anti-venom is administered.
1. MOSQUITO
Yep, the number one deadliest animal is the mosquito! Although this tiny insect by itself isn't much of a threat (to anything but your sanity. That buzzing!), they are known to carryparasites that cause malaria. These parasites are passed to humans through the female mosquito's bite. Malaria is responsible for the deaths of two million people per year.
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