What is the most dangerous animal?

Question

What are the most dangerous or vicious animals?

Answer 1

the animal with the greatest number of worldwide fatalities of people each year..

is the plasmodium worm that causes malaria.. 2 million a year

they are transmitted my mosquitos.. so indirectly they are in second place



next is the dog

not any snake, bear, cat, shark..

Answer 2

The stingray that got Steve Irwin. That sucker is mean.

Answer 3

Man!

Answer 4

I've always heard the hippo is the most dangerous animal in Africa.   I'll go with that.

Answer 5

I agree with the answer Human beings!

Answer 6

i believe bees kill a very high number of people each year also.

Answer 7

humans

i'll go with black mamba for second place, it's the only animal that i have seen steve irwin freak out on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_mamba

Answer 8

the komodo dragon by far are most dangerous animal they can be found in Indonesia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_drag...

Answer 9

In my opinion: human beings!!!!!

Answer 10

Most Vicious is my neighbors EVIL hamster.

True story.

Answer 11

Well, if we're going by "which animal would you least like to be stuck with in a 10x10 cage", I would say a grizzly bear. But venomous animals and parasites are much more likely to kill you.

Answer 12

The most dangerous, vicious, just plain mean animal?  The answer will surprise you because it is probably something you'd never think of.  It's the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus).

A hundred years ago, gray whales were the most feared animal in the sea, and when you consider that it's competition for that title at the time included dragons, giant squid and sea monsters, that's saying something!  Called "devil fish" at the time, gray whales are the only creature that has ever tried to match us in pure blood-thirsty barbarism, and by all accounts, they won that contest, hands down.

If you're really interested, read some of the writings of Captain Charles Melville Scammon, for whom Scammon's Lagoon in Baja California, Mexico is named.  He was captain of a whaling ship that went after grays, but beware, this is the stuff nightmares are made of.  A gray whale can throw a man farther than a man can throw a football, for openers.

We don't hunt them any more, and they don't kill us any more, so most people have forgotten just how much "attitude" these creatures have, but I strongly suspect that at least some of the boats that mysteriously disappear off the west coast of North America each year were following a mother gray and her calf too closely and got slapped by the mother.  One slap, the boat is crushed as you would an egg carton, and it sinks before anybody can even think to use the radio.

The good part is that if you can just avoid doing something monumentally stupid, like trying to harpoon them or their babies or trying to run them over, they are the gentlest creatures in the world, gentler even than kittens.  I've spent thousands of hours with them in a kayak, and I've taken a quarter of a million people out to see them as a whale watch guide and naturalist.  I have probably come closer to living with gray whales than any man alive, but I never ever take them for granted.

I know how to mind my manners around them, I know how to get close to them, legally, and how to keep them around me for hours at a time without feeding them or swimming with them.  I am always fastidious about minding my manners around them, and I won't let anyone with me do anything rude, like jump into the water with them uninvited.

Anyone who has ever worked with cetaceans in captivity will tell you that they have remarkable telepathic and empathic abilities, and captive cetaceans are almost comatose compared to those in the wild.  What really made gray whales so terrifying was that they could get into their victims heads enough to be customize their torture for maximum psychological impact.  It's one thing to drown a man, but quite another to slam him into the side of his own ship so hard that the ship sinks.  Downright demoralizing when that happens, and you couldn't get a man to go on a second gray whale hunt for love nor money.

Answer 13

The Great White Shark -- they eat swimmers.

Answer 14

Badgers

Answer 15

Rhino's!

Answer 16

The human being; no animal has ever been as destructive and dangerous.

Answer 17

To start I would just like to point out that out of the entire world and all species of shark combined on avg they attack less than 100 people a year and on avg only 4 people a year die.  Heck last year only one person was killed.  Even then an "attack" can be anything from a scratch that does not even need a bandaid to death.  Needless to say they can be dangerous but they are not even close to the top of the list.

Second, there is a vast difference between being the "most dangerous" and "vicious".  For example, you can have an animal that is extremely dangerous but not really vicious.  Look at animals that carry venom.  They can be extremely dangerous but their attacks are anything but vicious.  Or mosquitos, in some areas of the world they can be extremely dangerous due to parasites they carry, but I have never met anyone who would say a mosquito was vicious.

Even then you will have animals that can be extremely dangerous and vicious, but only towards their own kind or predators and not humans.

Nonetheless I will give you a few to ponder over...

Leopard and Elephant Seals can be extremely vicious and I have seen some nasty battles and wounds.  Not towards humans.

Polar Bears... does not matter, human or not, they are extremely aggressive and extremly dangerous.  You can not even be close to them, not bothering them and they will hunt you down, kill you then walk away.  Browns, Kodiak and Grizzly can also be nasty, Black Bear, not so much.  Polars are by far the worse though.

Cats in gerneral... hunting, fighting, alone, in groups... attacks and kills never tend to be pretty with them.  You have not lived until you have seen a pride of lions take down a full grown healthy elephant.

River Hippos...  are one of the greatest killers in Africa.  They can be extremely dangerous and extremely aggressive, even Nile Crocs keep a wide birth.

Any animal that carries, venom, toxin, bacteria, parasites... I am sure I do not need to say why they are dangerous.  Examples can be Box Jellies, Komodo Dragon, Cobra, Black Widow Spider, Mosquitos, Flies, etc, etc, etc.

Primates... many of them can carry disease that is transferable to humans (look into the problems with disease and the bush meat crisis) and in general due to their teeth the bites are nasty.

I could go on but that is a good start.