If we grant that humans are the most dangerous animal (Think Car Crashes) in your area; Name the next two or three dangerous animals in your area.
For example: most non-Alaskans would never guess that domestic dogs maul and or kill more humans than bears in Alaska. Or that some years Moose kill or injure more humans than bears.
Say we define "Dangerous" as: That they could inflict tissue damage to a human that would require some level of first aid. (Example: Snake Bite).
Sourdough, I'd have to guess mosquitoes unless you want to rule out insects, too. Ticks are probably next followed by stings in general. Dogs would probably be next in line. That's just my feelings on it. I don't have any stats.
We have rare sightings of Cougar but I don't know anyone that has been attacked.
Snakes (rattler,copper head,water moccasin,etc.),rabid coons,skunks,possum. dog's,'yotes. wolves have been rereleased in this area,but no reports of attacks on people or animals.
And deer,those suicidal maniacs are out in force now.
Rattlesnakes and killer bees....
Besides the occasional dog gone bad, We have Black bear, copperhead and timber rattlers. Black widow spiders and stinging insects are also out here. I don't know any statistics.
Alligators, Fire Ants, Snakes, Sharks, Mosquitoes, Ticks......
It would be interesting to know what animal (In each State) sends the most people per year to the Emergency Room.
Seems like mosquitoes top the list. Here's the top 10 world wide. http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...al.html?cat=53 As a side note - Rachel Carson, an environmentalist and author of Silent Spring, which ultimately led to the banning of DDT. It was later shown that the conclusions and claims in the book were based on fraudulent data and junk science, but the ban was never lifted. Anyway - I believe that she is responsible for millions and millions of deaths world wide - more so than any tyrannical dictator ever dreamed of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sourdough
I believe that dogs account for more injuries than all other wild animals combined. Reconstructive surgery alone was in the 30,000 people per year in the USA.
Most mosquito related diseases are now manageable and Lyme disease cases are few and most are attributed to trips out of Florida.
In Florida we have more shark attacks than "reported" dog attacks. In fact the USA has more shark attacks than any other nation and the majority of those are in Florida.
So Florida I would say dogs, because most go unreported. Then sharks, then alligators. Next I would say insects. I didn't put them first because I don't think they usually "require" first aid.
The above information is not at all scientifical! :innocent:
I don't know the stats, but around here, I'd bet that the brown recluse spider does more damage than rattle snakes, copper heads, cotton mouths, black bears, and pigs.
Mountain Lion, wild pigs, rattlesnakes, and what about the sub-humans?
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I suspect you are correct. We humans tend to fear the large animals (Bears, Lions, wolves) when my guess is bee stings and spider bites send more people in quest of medical attention. I know that here (Alaska) "Fish" are indirectly the cause of most Emergency Room visits. Fish hook removal.
In western Washington, we have cougar and bear, but they are too afraid of you to warrant any concern. I have treed cub bears and beat on the tree with sticks to invoke a charge from momma. Standing my ground was enough to make her break off her charge. I did this over and over for a half hour.
When calling predators, as soon as a blacky or cougar sees you they run so fast that it is tough to get a shot off at them.
The only thing I really worry about is a pack of wild dogs, but in my life time I have only seen one pack.
Now when I had my trap line in Idaho, I had to worry about moose. They love to run my stomped out trails. I carried two guns when I was on the trap line, A High Standard Double 9-22 on my hip for dispatching and a Ruger Black Hawk in .44 mag in a cross draw position for moose.
I had a friend over there who also trapped and was almost killed by a calf moose while on a trap line.
For Finland: Tick(Lyme disease), Moose(car crashes), dog(bites and such) and bee(for allergic).
No mosquitoes on the list, no malaria or such. Neither is there any snakes, we have only one poisonous species here. And it kills about one highly allergic person or a small baby every 20 years..
rattlesnakes and moccasins (snakes as 1 animal), and brown recluse and black widow (spiders), though few are fatal, I know quite a few people personally that have been bitten by one or the other. One would think gators or wildcats, but gators are big enough to avoid and wildcats would rather not bother you unless they have babies nearby. Just my opinion.. I have no stats to support it either.
This seems appropriate for this thread ,,
Coyote Attacks in Westchester, Again
NBCNewYork.com
updated 9/6/2010 10:52:40 AM ET
A teen and a toddler have come face-to-face with a coyote in two separate incidents within about an hour in a New York City suburb.
The toddler's father took her to get medical care. The teen was unhurt.
Authorities say a coyote lunged at the teen boy shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday on Eagles Bluff in Rye Brook. Then around 8 p.m., the 2-year-old girl was attacked near her home on Hillandale Road.
In June, a 3-year-old girl was attacked by a coyote while playing in her backyard in Rye, a nearby suburb. Four days earlier, another girl was scratched and bitten by a pair of coyotes in the same town.
Rye Brook is about 30 miles northeast of Manhattan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39024723...s-new_york_ny/
I would think in my general area, the biggest threat is dogs and bees.
No, to here. Without humans, we're hunky-dory. :)
Batch - while I agree with you that here, in the United States, diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are very treatable if detected early enough, the same is not true world wide. The last time I saw numbers - in the US there were (memory is a little fuzzy) around 25 to 35 deaths a year in the US from mosquito borne illnesses. That number approaches 3,000,000 world wide each year.