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Unironically the deadliest land animal

Most adorable deadliest land animal. FTFY

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Not even close, Scorpions, Dogs and Snakes are deadlier, and I’m relatively sure Mosquito’s count as land animals as well.

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

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

Why friend shaped then?

It might be per unit population.

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.

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

Even more so than humans?

IIRC they kill more humans than any other non-human land animal.

Dogs kill 50-70x as many people as hippos do, every year.

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

According to a lazy search, there’s some ~140,000 hippos and over 700 million domesticated breed dogs. So about 5000x as many dogs.

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

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)_/¯

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

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.

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 🤣

This comes to my mind:

Great childrens book.

Is that classic Sanrio character Big Challenges?

Didn’t know about that. Looks similar, but has nothing to do with Hello Kitty.

Here is some video about the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXzI5S2AmL8

“You just wait till I grow up!” - Baby hippo probably

Why is it so hard to tolerate cute, not-yet-dangerous beings, lol…? I mean this chonk looks like it could just chew that leg off aah

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