Leaving for nature, a person, willingly or unwittingly, steps into the habitat of other living creatures, many of which pose a serious danger to his life and health. At the same time, the threat can be found everywhere: on the ground, in the water and in the air. Most often, animals attack a person in self-defense, as well as as a result of an outsider's invasion of their lands.
Shark
The myths about the bloodthirstiness of sharks and piranhas were invented by filmmakers of Hollywood films. In reality, there is not a single reliable case of human death from an attack of piranhas in the world. With sharks, the statistics are somewhat different. About 100 shark attacks on people are recorded annually, 5-7 of which end in the death of the victim.
Jellyfish
There are several thousand species of jellyfish in the world, and all of them are poisonous, the only difference is that a person, when meeting with them, may not feel their poison. But there are also such species, contact with which is deadly. The sea wasp from the box jellyfish class is the most dangerous of them. An average of 40 people per year die from the poison of this animal.
Cats
Higher felines - tigers, cougars, lions and leopards - pose a great threat to people who settle near their hunting grounds. Having once tasted human meat, the predator will never be able to stop, because people are easy prey for fast and silent cats. Every year, lions kill about 500 people, tigers - 800 people.
At the beginning of the 20th century, 64 people fell victim to the tigress from Kumaon. And in 8 years from 1918 to 1926, the man-eating leopard from Rudraprayag killed 127 people. However, these cases are the exception rather than the rule.
Crocodiles
Crocodiles are some of the most ferocious and dangerous predators on Earth. In total, crocodiles and alligators eat up to 2,000 people a year. But Crocodiles do not hunt specifically for people, the unfortunate ones come into their field of vision only when they enter the territory of their habitat and feeding.
One of the most famous man-eating crocodiles was "Gustav". At the time of his death, he was about a hundred years old, during his life he killed 300 people.
Scorpions
Deadly scorpions live in dark and warm places, a person can inadvertently disturb one of them, and a bite is almost inevitable. From the action of the poison of some types of scorpions, 3000 people die every year.
Snakes
You can become a victim of a snakebite only through negligence, coming too close to her. Of all the poisonous snakes in existence, Indian cobras are considered the most dangerous, accounting for 50,000 human lives annually. Combined, more than 125,000 die from the venom of various snakes each year.
The deadliest snakes in the world are the black mamba and the tiger snake. The probability of survival after their bite is very small, death occurs in almost 100% of cases.
Malaria mosquito
Of all the animals that are not endowed with intelligence, the most dangerous animals on the planet are malaria mosquitoes, which live in close proximity to people and are carriers of the deadly virus - malaria plasmodium. As of 2013, annually from one and a half to three million people die from malaria, and up to 500 million are infected with this infectious disease every year.
