You know, I'd really like to see one of these lists that doesn't include vectors. Mosquitos themselves are of course not the primary cause of death, rather it is the diseases they carry that are.
I would really like to know where they're getting their stats from. And what's being included. Because I'm not buying dogs killing 20,000 people a year. Biting maybe, but biting isn't killing.
Apparently the house cat lobby is very effective. No one talks about the number of humans tripped at the top of a flight of stairs by a hangry cat who hasn’t been fed in the last 2 hours.
Plus, hippos and cats kill due to the pure desire to do evil. A lot of those other so-called murderers DGAF. There's like one really evil snail and the rest are just doing their snail best to not be eaten.
I would say it's the malaria parasite, not the mosquito. We don't say rats killed fifty million people during the bubonic plague, we say it was the plague bacteria.
So much misinformation here. For example wolves, not 10 per year, but 26 over an 18 year period (2002-2020), so 1.4/year, and of that 26 the majority were deaths due to rabies infection not due to injuries caused by the wolf. Lions average 22 not 200. While not All of these are wrong, it is blatantly more wrong than right.
In North America yeah, but I don't know where they're getting those statistics either. Like there's been plenty of historical attacks (usually rabies or *suspected* hybrids) in Europe way back when but 10/year now..?
This doesn't specify that it's only accounting for the US, though. I do agree that many of the stats are dubious, but citing a statistic from the US ad saying that invalidates international stats doesn't actually make much sense. I can't imagine we have many elephant fatalities in the US either
Except that it states "alligator", not "crocodile" (which is probably much higher than alligators), or "crocodilian" (if you want to include gharials etc...). There are only two species of alligator (american and Chinese), and unless the Chinese ones are eating 997+ people/year, this infographic cannot be anything near correct.
China does have a large population.... But yes, as others have said, it's probably combining the two critters I'd it's attempting to be anywhere close to correct
yah i meant both when i said 'they'. someone else pointed out the dogs too. i guess theres a couple dif things the prob shouldn't be included. but i guess if they are all included its.. sorta okay? but meh.
As an Iowan. I have so many stories with Cattle, for example. As a kid my dad chucked me into the pond like John Wayne because a Cow was coming at us because its baby was near by. She was quite pissed, my Dad was nearly trampled. Other stories end with us getting our ass kicked because we weren't suppose to "try and ride the cattle" no body tried anything. We DID ride the cattle.
You *might* need more vinegar in your diet. Had a ScoutMaster who swore by it(spoonful a day in bad times[not the best teeth tbh; rinse well or dilute at start{still rinse}])I'm naturally inclined to the fluid's flavor and have low bite rates relative tho those around me.
Ooooor, I'm just not in a body that noticeably responds to bites(did you know mosquitoes can cause an allergic reaction which isn't present across peoples?). Either way, you should test vinegar remedies for your malady.
I thank you kindly. Anything is better than the attacks I get. I’ll check into Apple cider Vinegar as well. The tablets go down much easier than liquid vinegar.
They're crucial to the foodchain in a lot of places, namely the places they're endemic, i.e. hot, humid areas. The further north or south you go, the fewer natural predators they have and the more easily the propagate. You'd probably see trophic cascade in equatorial areas if you removed them but much less impact as you moved away from the tropics. It would be catastrophic the world over, though, unfortunately. Ticks though, I'm not as convinced of.
Considering the dogs, snakes, and snails numbers, it's probably "attacks" or "hospitalizations" rather than "kills". Depending on how loose you are with definitions, 'humans' could be as high as multiple billions
Mosquitos aren't intentionally killing humans. They're just accidentally transferring a pathogen. Human caused deaths would be completely off the chart.
I watched this whole thing to make sure dogs were in the right place. I always found it ironic that dogs and terrorism average about the same number of human murders per year . . . and yet dogs are man's best friend and terrorism his worst enemy. Human Logic!
Terrorists usually kill innocent people. If a dog kills you, you probably deserved it. If I ever get killed by a dog, I wouldn't scream for help, but scream "Sorry!", because I would know I must have done something wrong.
Out of curiosity I looked at the studies section on fatal dog attacks on Wikipedia. They sort of directly contradict eachother, so it is hard to answer that question, but I think that the number is so high because they are capable of killing people and there are a huge number of pet dogs in the world.
From what I found police dogs killing people is very rare. Well cared for and trained dogs are not likely to kill people. US police are not known for honest reports though, so do you have a source, or story about this?
Police dogs, as much as people like to bandwagon, are not trained to kill people but to hold. Most dog bites are from pets, or in India, street dogs (sometimes w/ rabies) but I really don't know where a lot of this thing's statistics come from. "Wolves" shouldn't even e on the list
Lots of dogs can carry rabies, which is frequently fatal. And the number is not helped by the fact that, by nature, dogs are lethal predators. So between infections and dogs outright ability to end us if it feels like and the high number of interactions between them and humans given we have domesticated them we see more than seems normal. But if you break it down its really not that dogs are inherently more dangerous, just more common in day to day life.
Not not in 1st world countries so much. In the last century we have really gotten it under control. But according to the CDC globally more than 99% of 59000 human deaths per year from rabies comes from dogs. So honestly this dog number in the video is LOW. Now I know its not really the fault of the dog. Its sick and probably desperate. But rabies makes dogs dangerous. One of the few wins I give the USA is how effective the rabies monitoring and response network is.
Bilharzia/Schistosomiasis (I prefer the former, because it's easier to spell). If you die from a shark bite then death by mosquito bite is a fair comparison; and if it's okay to include the mosquito on the lineup then surely the disease-ridden snail is fair ball too.
Ppl chose the Millions of dollars but if a snail touches you you die. The deal never had to be fair. As soon as you hit that button snails rain down like confetti.
To be fair, they're also including the total deaths caused by lions and parasites of lions (which is zero). If there were no freshwater snails, there would be virtually no trematodes (including schistosoma) left on the planet.
Same with the mosquitoes. Most of those deaths are indirect from parasitic disease (although I've been in parts of northern Canada where direct exsanguination would be plausible).
I realize that was a joke, but just in case someone is terrified by that: it would require more mosquitoes than any given location and your skin doesn't have enough surface area to hold enough to exsanguinate you. To death, at least. Anemics beware.
I guess it depends on the purpose of the info. If it's to tell you what animals to be careful of, then it makes perfect sense. Because even if the snail or mosquito don't directly kill you, you're still dead.
True but unless the only thing protecting our planet from interstellar aliens is its status as a mosquito sanctuary, we’d be better off without the bugs.
mangor
Poppy!
Ashkaari
You know, I'd really like to see one of these lists that doesn't include vectors. Mosquitos themselves are of course not the primary cause of death, rather it is the diseases they carry that are.
dixxienormus
It's amazing that Mosquitos can (a) count up to one million, and (b) stop killing when they hit target.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
OH MY GOD, IT'S A FRESHWATER SNAAAAAAIL! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Neednoggle
What about the most dangerous creature of all? Man!
VoidScreamer
I would really like to know where they're getting their stats from. And what's being included. Because I'm not buying dogs killing 20,000 people a year. Biting maybe, but biting isn't killing.
whatsisname
Wolves definitely do not kill 10 people/year worldwide.
Z3roCo0l
Humans should be high on this list as well!
Melguawan
methinks your stats are hecking wrong there. Where did you find these stats? aah howthingswork.... that reliable info dump.
smithysmithybangbang
I don’t even know what it’s referring to either. Deaths? Injuries? All of the above?
paulhollywood9
Now do one showing how many animals humans kill per year (Ps - it's around 74 billion land animals !!)
Quisibinomenimposuit
What is wrong with that horse?!!!
pravetz
“American gun owners” somewhere between dogs and tsetse flies
Frogspoison
So if we count total gun deaths in the US, it's ~50k, so above dogs worldwide. Majority is suicide however.
MothMonsterMan
Now add in Israelis and Russians
IAmGodot
TIL that I'm about as dangerous as a bear.
drduffer
Apparently the house cat lobby is very effective. No one talks about the number of humans tripped at the top of a flight of stairs by a hangry cat who hasn’t been fed in the last 2 hours.
OctopusSummoner
Plus, hippos and cats kill due to the pure desire to do evil. A lot of those other so-called murderers DGAF. There's like one really evil snail and the rest are just doing their snail best to not be eaten.
JadeNB1729
Allowing the bottom of your cat's food bowl to be visible practically counts as committing suicide, though.
ChareAndFlaff
Higure
I would say it's the malaria parasite, not the mosquito. We don't say rats killed fifty million people during the bubonic plague, we say it was the plague bacteria.
whatsisname
People regularly say both.
heyletsbefriends
just show the fucking chart why are you wasting a full minute of my time for this
LosPer
The animations are fun!
JadeNB1729
Like the terrifying horse.
triassictango
I was under the impression the snail thing was a hypothetical.
TorrentialUpPour
Not if it gets out of it's tungsten ball.
triassictango
But I welded the ball shut and dropped it in the ocean!
TorrentialUpPour
Clearly this is the alternate universe where you dropped the tungsten ball in fresh water, hence "freshwater snail". Rookie mistake bud.
ColdestOne
How are ants killing people?
EricPisch
drive by shooting
vowofloudness
Anaphylaxis. Allergic reaction to fire ant stings. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2760357
subrosaflorens
Watch the documentary Them!
METROlD
The size of their architecture.
JesaraB
So much misinformation here. For example wolves, not 10 per year, but 26 over an 18 year period (2002-2020), so 1.4/year, and of that 26 the majority were deaths due to rabies infection not due to injuries caused by the wolf. Lions average 22 not 200. While not All of these are wrong, it is blatantly more wrong than right.
thebonesofmyancestors
I'm wondering if it's more of a self-inflicted thing. I.e. people who keep wolves as pets.
JesaraB
The majority of them happened in Turkey and Iran where there are issues with grazing lands and other farmland overlapping wolf ranges
Problemwoodchuck
The snail really went on a murder spree when it got out of the tungsten sphere
TheImmunerd
That wolf one is bullshit. There's like 2 per year MAYBE and it's usually because of rabies
thebonesofmyancestors
So, I'm thinking this is self inflicted. I.e. people who keep wolves as pets.
evocatiranch
Theres been one wolf attack ever in the entirety of recorded history.
Feralkyn
In North America yeah, but I don't know where they're getting those statistics either. Like there's been plenty of historical attacks (usually rabies or *suspected* hybrids) in Europe way back when but 10/year now..?
whatsisname
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks a bit more than one. Definitely less than 10/year fatal attacks though.
TheImmunerd
Thanks for actually grabbing sauce whatsisname. I was too lazy
Knifesmith
This is absolute horseshit. There are like 3 alligator fatalities/year is a particularly active year. Many years there are none. There are like 44 total in US recorded history, so the 1000/year is a "bit inaccurate". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_States
whatsisname
Yeah, it's probably also combining alligators with crocodiles which together is maybe 100-200/year.
Gunslinger2071
Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_attack
Knifesmith
So, the error is just in mislabeling "crocodilian" for "alligator"...
psychologisttheologist
This doesn't specify that it's only accounting for the US, though. I do agree that many of the stats are dubious, but citing a statistic from the US ad saying that invalidates international stats doesn't actually make much sense. I can't imagine we have many elephant fatalities in the US either
Milomaine
I've seen plenty of Hippos in Florida though
Knifesmith
Except that it states "alligator", not "crocodile" (which is probably much higher than alligators), or "crocodilian" (if you want to include gharials etc...). There are only two species of alligator (american and Chinese), and unless the Chinese ones are eating 997+ people/year, this infographic cannot be anything near correct.
psychologisttheologist
China does have a large population....
But yes, as others have said, it's probably combining the two critters I'd it's attempting to be anywhere close to correct
IlluminaBlade
Do puffer fish kill people or do poor cooks with pufferfish kill people?
spiceass9000
Both. But puffers generally dont like “attack” you have to be fucking with them
friendswithfire
How are fresh water snails deadly?
CoqRoq
Might be disease related to eating them or their poop. Similar to how the mosquito is deadly due to its ability to get people sick.
tantallous
yeah but they shouldn't be on this chart prob. they are responsible as transmitters but not actually killing. its the disease/parasites.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Same with dogs: it’s mostly rabies that kills & the dogs just happen to be a rabies vector…
whatsisname
Dogs do still kill a lot of people via violence in the developing world where they don't have adequate animal control services.
CoqRoq
Which is the same thing as mosquitos, like I said earlier.
tantallous
yah i meant both when i said 'they'. someone else pointed out the dogs too. i guess theres a couple dif things the prob shouldn't be included. but i guess if they are all included its.. sorta okay? but meh.
bigfatmadcowmoo
Relevant
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
As an Iowan. I have so many stories with Cattle, for example. As a kid my dad chucked me into the pond like John Wayne because a Cow was coming at us because its baby was near by. She was quite pissed, my Dad was nearly trampled. Other stories end with us getting our ass kicked because we weren't suppose to "try and ride the cattle" no body tried anything. We DID ride the cattle.
zeacorzeppelin10
Your moove bitch! Can't stay inside forever!
Resenate
Alligators don’t kill people (that often). It’s crocodiles. 🐊 Misinformation like this grinds my gears.
LiarLiarPantsUntier
Should have written Crocodylia instead; then who ever made it would have been technically correct.
electronicbovine
Moooo.
bigfatmadcowmoo
sevro77
Faith divides us, hate in mosquitos unites us.
Spoonland
jesusisherelookbusy
Abraxaz777
I feel you. They love to hurt me.
NeoDarkElf
You *might* need more vinegar in your diet. Had a ScoutMaster who swore by it(spoonful a day in bad times[not the best teeth tbh; rinse well or dilute at start{still rinse}])I'm naturally inclined to the fluid's flavor and have low bite rates relative tho those around me.
Ooooor, I'm just not in a body that noticeably responds to bites(did you know mosquitoes can cause an allergic reaction which isn't present across peoples?). Either way, you should test vinegar remedies for your malady.
Abraxaz777
I thank you kindly. Anything is better than the attacks I get. I’ll check into Apple cider Vinegar as well. The tablets go down much easier than liquid vinegar.
thatlamer
If I could eradicate flies and mosquitos without causing any ecological harm I would. For mosquitos I don't even care if it did.
Filanwizard
I wonder if mosquitoes even serve a place in the ecosystem.
wabitgirl
They're crucial to the foodchain in a lot of places, namely the places they're endemic, i.e. hot, humid areas. The further north or south you go, the fewer natural predators they have and the more easily the propagate. You'd probably see trophic cascade in equatorial areas if you removed them but much less impact as you moved away from the tropics. It would be catastrophic the world over, though, unfortunately. Ticks though, I'm not as convinced of.
thatlamer
Food for the next step up in the food chain. Birds, fish, frogs, spiders, dragonflies, etc. And I have an uneasy alliance with spiders.
LitterBoxKing
People didn't make the list?
Alzeido
after the recent alabama ruling and the number of teenagers they have to invent new numbers
drizztx
Imgur's clip time limit would make scrolling up that column impractical.
barnwolf
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/what-animals-kills-the-most-people Humans kill 400k a year. So more than snakes but still less than mosquitoes.
Abraxaz777
They can’t afford the lens needed for that much distance and clarity.
kEMup
A person made this list.
DrFedora
I was waiting for the camera to just skyrocket upwards at the end. Kinda dissapointed.
ChickenVegetas
Apparently they've never heard of deer either
justpullnpray
In 2019 475,000 people were murdered
fathergruff
The people one is the warehouse all these graphs are sitting in…
meadowmeal
those are attributed to the four horsemen of the apocalypse :)
stayingalive4life
Man, the deadliest animal to man.
charondaboatman
Off the fucking chart.
Cptbluebeard7
Nope
unsneakyLurker
Considering the dogs, snakes, and snails numbers, it's probably "attacks" or "hospitalizations" rather than "kills". Depending on how loose you are with definitions, 'humans' could be as high as multiple billions
kennybeynon
Mosquitos aren't intentionally killing humans. They're just accidentally transferring a pathogen. Human caused deaths would be completely off the chart.
charondaboatman
You need to include war, traffic accidents, stupid human tricks, etc..
JackalopeElope
Fluctuates but around half a million between war and homicide
ArcanisTheOmnipotent
Plus accidents, hunger, over worked, stress, suicide,
SupernaturalReactions
Much, much higher than that if we'd include deaths from climate change....
JackalopeElope
Noughmad
You don't have to go that far. By now, all starvation is man-made and intentional.
RowanUnderwood
I watched this whole thing to make sure dogs were in the right place. I always found it ironic that dogs and terrorism average about the same number of human murders per year . . . and yet dogs are man's best friend and terrorism his worst enemy. Human Logic!
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FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
You are the bad guy if you hate dogs. Dogs aren’t the problem, rabies is…
Pyrokneticbeavr
Yeah but a lot of people fuck with dogs and deserve to get es by them.
TheUnstoppableWampas
You'd be surprised what you can get away with when you're cute.
JadeNB1729
Aren't you the cutest widdle terrorist! Yes you are!
MisuseOfLiterally
I mean, if you think it should be the same because of that reason, your logic disappoints many vulcans
baconandmorebacon
Terrorists usually kill innocent people. If a dog kills you, you probably deserved it. If I ever get killed by a dog, I wouldn't scream for help, but scream "Sorry!", because I would know I must have done something wrong.
dreammer243
How are dogs so high?
JadeNB1729
Drugs, man.
graehall
scooby snacks
thedeadmarchhare
the glass was in the small pocket
MeatVegetable
Really bad owners, feral dogs from idiots "returning" pets to nature, etc. Lots of reasons honestly.
Emjayen
Because we're constantly in very close proximity to them.
PirateRubberDuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks#:~:text=Broken%20neck,an%20attack%2C%20or%20resultant%20injuries
Out of curiosity I looked at the studies section on fatal dog attacks on Wikipedia. They sort of directly contradict eachother, so it is hard to answer that question, but I think that the number is so high because they are capable of killing people and there are a huge number of pet dogs in the world.
Falkh12
and K9 units, if those count into this statistic
PirateRubberDuck
From what I found police dogs killing people is very rare. Well cared for and trained dogs are not likely to kill people. US police are not known for honest reports though, so do you have a source, or story about this?
Feralkyn
Police dogs, as much as people like to bandwagon, are not trained to kill people but to hold. Most dog bites are from pets, or in India, street dogs (sometimes w/ rabies) but I really don't know where a lot of this thing's statistics come from. "Wolves" shouldn't even e on the list
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Lots of dogs can carry rabies, which is frequently fatal. And the number is not helped by the fact that, by nature, dogs are lethal predators. So between infections and dogs outright ability to end us if it feels like and the high number of interactions between them and humans given we have domesticated them we see more than seems normal. But if you break it down its really not that dogs are inherently more dangerous, just more common in day to day life.
dreammer243
Ahh, rabies helps explain it a bit.
iatezola
what's the stats on rabies? at least in NA, i never hear of people dying from rabies from dogs--it's usually bats and wild animals...
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Not not in 1st world countries so much. In the last century we have really gotten it under control. But according to the CDC globally more than 99% of 59000 human deaths per year from rabies comes from dogs. So honestly this dog number in the video is LOW. Now I know its not really the fault of the dog. Its sick and probably desperate. But rabies makes dogs dangerous. One of the few wins I give the USA is how effective the rabies monitoring and response network is.
dirtmarker
Freshwater snails? Really?
davyclam
Bilhartzia?
kleinkaasje
Came here for the exact same comment
mooncactus
Makes sense. It’s those shifty eyes. Never trusted ‘em.
icanc4
Bilharzia/Schistosomiasis (I prefer the former, because it's easier to spell). If you die from a shark bite then death by mosquito bite is a fair comparison; and if it's okay to include the mosquito on the lineup then surely the disease-ridden snail is fair ball too.
mikeatike
It's bigger than a fuckin elephant.
STGxDante
Ppl chose the Millions of dollars but if a snail touches you you die. The deal never had to be fair. As soon as you hit that button snails rain down like confetti.
lospaturno
Need more tungsten spheres
Thelatestpopularculturereferance
HufflePuffPuff
And salt
uzetaab
Presumably unsafe drinking water is the problem.
whatsisname
Nope, the snails harbor parasites that can get into you through the skin.
bigfatmadcowmoo
They carry schistosomiasis but it's kinda lame to include them in the same category as lions imo
astrangehop
They're probably not even including everyone who dies by eating lion poop.
DaveTheScientist
To be fair, they're also including the total deaths caused by lions and parasites of lions (which is zero). If there were no freshwater snails, there would be virtually no trematodes (including schistosoma) left on the planet.
Alomega
I just read about it. I’m never touching water again.
TeamSpicyTacos
Well but not in the US so much
1eudaemonia
Ill never swim in fresh water
Piccolini
Oh god, I have to look it up don't I?
Alomega
“They just goes strait through your skin”
MrNohbdy
Likely they are referring to various parasites spread by snails, but that doesn't really make an easy statistic
tibbs3d
I guess it makes sense as long as mosquitos are included
FuckThemIfTheyCantTakeAJoke
Same for mosquitoes- not them that do the killing
mmontour
Same with the mosquitoes. Most of those deaths are indirect from parasitic disease (although I've been in parts of northern Canada where direct exsanguination would be plausible).
NateintheNorth
I realize that was a joke, but just in case someone is terrified by that: it would require more mosquitoes than any given location and your skin doesn't have enough surface area to hold enough to exsanguinate you. To death, at least. Anemics beware.
BeanBagKing
I feel like that's an unfair comparison. The sharks didn't kill people by giving them malaria.
mwoodman
We don’t know how many malaria victims got it from a shark and never told anyone because it was embarrassing, BBK.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I guess it depends on the purpose of the info. If it's to tell you what animals to be careful of, then it makes perfect sense. Because even if the snail or mosquito don't directly kill you, you're still dead.
rowboatrowboat8
Yeah, that's the point, sharks aren't dangerous, mosquitoes are
thatsnotverystreetsahead
I mean malaria is
78927x4No1
No it isn't. Look at the list. 😤
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
True but unless the only thing protecting our planet from interstellar aliens is its status as a mosquito sanctuary, we’d be better off without the bugs.
dinglehoppersandbluebows
NoCapes
PackratMagpie