Deadliest Animal In The U.S. 2016

You may have heard the tragic news about a boy being pulled under by an alligator while at Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida. What puzzled us was, that was manmade lake and so, how the hell did the ally gets in there? Then again, Florida is kind of famous for alligators with some folks encountering the reptile right in the backyards – thanks t us, humans, encroaching into their natural habitat. At this point, alligators have earned themselves a fearsome reputation and this ancient reptile has instilled the same fear in people as sharks do, but here’s a plot twist: alligators, or sharks for that matter, is not the number one man-killer in the U.S.

So, which animal is the number one killer then? Well, according to a report by The Washington Post which reference to the data from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bees, wasps and hornets are the number one man-killer, accounting for 58 deaths in the U.S. annually between 2001 and 2013. Surprised? Us too. We felt sorry for the crocs for being the de facto top killer by perception. But hey, you can’t blame people. When someone gets attack by alligator, it is a big news and more so, when it happened in a supposedly leisure, manmade environment.

Anywho, there are 52 deaths by “other mammals”, which lands them in the second spot. Though we are not sure what are the animals that were included under “other mammals”. Wolves, maybe? Dogs and cows surprises us too cos’ statistically, they are responsible for 28 and 20 deaths, respectively and mind you, death by cow, according to CDC, does not include eating beef – just so you know. While alligator attacks happen a few times a year, by comparison, fatality is few and far between – only one per year between 2001 and 2013.

So, if you still think crocs killed more humans than anything else in the U.S., then you probably watched one too many Lake Placid and its B-grade sequels (I love those movies, btw).

Deadliest Animal In The U.S. 2016

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