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Unironically the deadliest land animal
Most adorable deadliest land animal. FTFY
By Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser - https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death#deaths-by-animal, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130583015Not even close, Scorpions, Dogs and Snakes are deadlier, and I'm relatively sure Mosquito's count as land animals as well.
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.
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
At least 5
No idea.
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.
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 .
And it was like some kind of morbid competition!
No, they live mostly off the crumbs of peanut butter on toast.
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 🤣
Even more so than humans?
IIRC they kill more humans than any other non-human land animal.