What's the world's deadliest animal?
The answer may surprise you. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito-Week #science #nature
The deadliest animal in the world
Bill Gates introduces Mosquito Week on his personal blog, the Gates Notes. Everything posted this week is dedicated to this deadly creature. Mosquitoes carry devastating diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis.gatesnotes.com
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •llewelly
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"snake" lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.
"mosquito", likewise, lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.
by contrast, "dog" is only one species, as is "human".
Fierce, Lord Pankake
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •(We didn't even have to peek! But humans aren't *that* far behind...)
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Much, much deadlier than roundworms.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •This seems an excessively human-centric list.
For us poor moose, ticks would have to be way up near the top:
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The correct answer is Homo Sapiens and unfortunately not surprising at all:
Humans have caused on average over 1,600,000 human casualties per year in major wars alone since WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Moreover, the death and destruction that humans have caused to other species on this planet is beyond anyone's imagination.
Yet we must sustain hope and contribute to the development of a much more kind, considerate and humble coexistence.
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