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This category is for articles that describe mortal attacks on humans by animals. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
This is a list of the deadliest animals to humans worldwide, measured by the number of humans killed per year. Different lists have varying criteria and definitions, so lists from different sources disagree and can be contentious. This article contains a compilation of lists from several reliable sources.
A tigress who had killed 13 people in Goia was killed on 28 May 1979, but as of 1982, the third tiger at Sarada was still at large [17] and 90 people had been killed since the 1978 attack. [18] The population demanded action from authorities. The locals wanted the man-eater shot or poisoned. The killings continued, each one making headlines.
Uploader scaled the raw numbers of bird deaths into portions of 100,000 deaths, so that most numbers displayed in the chart are small whole numbers. Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Horizontal bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor.
A recent Washington Post analysis of government data between 2001 and 2013 found that the main culprits are flying insects such as bees, wasps, and hornets which kill an average of 58 people annually.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data cited by Live Science records that gators killed 10 people in the southeastern US between 1999 and 2019, a period in which five times as many ...
In March 1904, 1.5 million migrating birds died in Minnesota and Iowa during a strong snowstorm. [5] According to The Guardian, this was the largest avian mortality event on record in the region. [5] Records of MMEs have been kept since the 1880s. [5] MMEs of this size are rare, however, and few before or since have been as big as the 1904 event.
A group of Oklahoma hunters are accused of killing endangered whooping cranes and hiding the bodies — but one of the birds wasn’t dead.. The four men, all between 32 and 43 years old, shot the ...