I wonder which animal species killed the most modern humans?

I wonder which animal species killed the most modern humans?

> Not including fellow humans - I'm talking about species apart from us
> Not including carriers of disease - the animal itself must be responsible

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    pitbulls

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Certainly snakes.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ascaris. They kill 5 times more people than hippos per year and it probably was way worse in the past. No, they aren’t vector or carriers, the worm is the one killing people.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I'm talking about species apart from us
    N

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably some kind of cat. But given how common some phobias are, I'd imagine venomous spiders and snakes are also very high up there, possibly even higher.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cows or horses.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some type of parasitic worm, I'd wager.
    They can't usually kill healthy adults, but the young or infirm? Score.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dinosaurs. Not even joking. Some carnivorous dinosaurs survived in isolated areas in Africa and the Middle East. It's where the idea of Dragons come from. You can see an example here next to modern animals.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Middle east
      >posts picture of berlin
      You are a frickface and should be raped to death

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Elephants
    Including the ones used in war
    Including it's ancestors the mammoths

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    My guess is the Hippo, because it's the deadliest mammal and because it has a huge range across almost all of Africa. Humans have been in Africa for about 200,000 years, so that's a lot of time and a lot of opportunities to gore random bushmen

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Humans have been in Africa for about 200,000 years, so that's a lot of time and a lot of opportunities to gore random bushmen
      Yeah, but the population was really small for most of that time. I'm not sure that the majority of humans were African.
      I think a domesticated species is actually more likely. Frequent contact increases the odds of them killing you, even if the odds during any given encounter are low. I'm leaning towards cattle, which are extremely common, have been domesticated for a while, and are fricking dangerous.

      Wolves. Because they're widespread. If we're counting all of the paleolithic, it would definitely be something they encountered often. It could even be some type of bull or boar maybe.

      If you lump them together with dogs as a species complex, they might be in the running.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    probably saw scaled vipers

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wolves. Because they're widespread. If we're counting all of the paleolithic, it would definitely be something they encountered often. It could even be some type of bull or boar maybe.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    hippos by far

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Big cats, crocs, gators, and hippos

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Malaria is an animal (a type of worm).

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Malaria is an animal (a type of worm).
      no (no)

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    mosquitos probably.
    ticks maybe

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      OP specifically excluded otherwise harmless disease vectors.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >otherwise harmless disease vectors.
        I see you don't know shit about mosquitos and ticks.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Who's going to die from otherwise disease-free mosquitos and ticks aside from totally helpless infants, old people, or the already sick and infirm?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Who's going to die from otherwise disease-free mosquitos and ticks aside from totally helpless infants, old people, or the already sick and infirm?
            the unlucky

            ticks are one of the deadliest venomous animals out there, they just rarely envenomate anyone. But when they do people tend to die.

            mosquitos it's just a matter of numbers. They kill off thousands of animals in the woods already. People too if you don't have some sort of protection.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Definitely mosquitos

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Poisonous snakes, bears, and large cats probably.

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