• @Yawweee877h444
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      353 months ago

      Most adorable deadliest land animal. FTFY

      • @morphballganon
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        83 months ago

        Freshwater snail being in the top 10 is not something I expected

        • @Freefall
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          53 months ago

          I think that is the invincible snail that chases you forever but if it touches you you die…but in return you are immortal until you get touched.

          It was never a hypothetical, those people asking that were asking the internet for help. RIP

        • @Tudsamfa
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          I couldn’t find estimates for snakes and scorpions and completely ignored the invertebrates here, but from those options, Tigers kill the most humans yearly per wild individual.

          There are about 5500 Tigers in the wild killing 50 humans yearly, while 115000 Hippos kill 500 humans yearly.

          So Tigers kill 9 humans per thousand individuals, Hippos kill 4, next would be Lions with 2.5 .

          Maybe they are the more deadly than Tigers on a per species basis since there are only 2 species of Hippo while 6 living species of Tigers exist… but then the other kill statistics would get a lot more precise as well. And I wont even try to analyze how often humans interact with specific animal groups.

      • @stupidcasey
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        13 months ago

        Just like everyone always says Dog man’s worst enemy.

      • @JusticeForPorygon
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        233 months ago

        How many more dogs are there in the world than hippos? Just curious

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        Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to hippos. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too

        • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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          53 months ago

          I honestly don’t know what the big deal is. I saw hippos in lots of homes growing up. All they wanted to eat were marbles.

          • @SquigglyEmpire
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            33 months ago

            I encountered that a few times growing up too, I’ll never forget the ravenous way they murdered every marble they saw without a hint of concern for the devastated marble families left behind .

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          Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans.

          the “do better…” energy of this comment 🤣

      • @[email protected]
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        93 months ago

        If the Cocker Spaniel next door weighed 4 tons and was perpetually in a bad mood, I’d be a lot more concerned.

        • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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          33 months ago

          I was just responding to the “deadliest” comment but hippos aren’t even in the top 10, unless you’re only counting mammals and then they are 3rd. Mosquitos, humans, dogs, snakes, and snails round out the top 5. I guess that fact upset some dog lovers. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯