what is the most dangerous animal in the wolrd?

Question

what do they do to be dangerous?

Answer 1

"Baby G" is kinda correct here. The virus is the most dangerous creature to ALL living creatures. But viruses are not bacteria...A virus is way smaller. Most bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics which are quite useless against a viral infection, like the common cold.

The most disturbing thing about viruses is their ability to mutate, and they do this rapidly. The Ebola virus is the main reason that the Mountain Gorilla, from Africa, is fast becoming an extinct creature. The same virus is deadly to humans also.

Ebola...Virus...No cure...Deadly to humans.

HIV...Virus...No Cure...Deadly to Humans.

Common Cold (Flue)...Virus...No Cure...Deadly to Humans

...and the list goes on and on...

Need I say more. This creature is so small and is capable of causing our immune systems to fail. Not only that, if a treatment is found, they are able to mutate to another state that is untreatable again.

The virus is the Number One threat to mankind.

Answer 2

There is a certain type of amoeba that gets in through your nose and eats your brain. It is exceedingly rare and is in rivers and lakes primarily in the southeastern US. By the time you start to show any symptoms it is too late and there is no treatment.

Actually an amoeba is not an animal. It's a protist. So I'll go with helminths which are also called parasitic worms with a link to some of the more deadly varieties. It won't take my link. Error 999. Won't let me submit a link, so just go to the wikipedia and type in "list of parasitic organisms" and then click on "helminths."

It won't take a wikipedia link perhaps. Guess they are tired of wikipedia. So found this one almost as good.

http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/General_Parasitology/Hm.helminths.html

Schistosomiasis, that particular heminth, kills one million a year. Add it the dangers of hookworm and some of the others, you got your most dangerous animal.

Answer 3

If you won't accept the human answer because you were talking other than humans then the correct answer is the box jellyfish or sea wasp. It has enough venom to kill hundreds. It also results in more deaths each year than any other animal. People swim into the almost invisible tentacles and are often dead in moments.

BTW these are little tiny jellyfish.

Technically viruses and bacteria as well as most other germs are not animals.

But Ian W is correct if about the mosquito if you can deal with indirect killings.

Answer 4

Hi Angelbabe:
You'll probably find a wide variety of animals listed here, from lions to tigers, to bears, etc. In the wild there are few animals as dangerous as the hyena, lion, tiger, bear, wolf, cobra, rattlesnake and mamba, but, ironically, the most dangerous animal of them all, is MAN! Not only because he bosses over all the above, but more importantly because be kills indiscriminately and deliberately (for pleasure), whereas all other animals will kill only for two reasons: hunger or self-defense!
But even mankind fears the tinyest, minutest, microscopically sized, yet most dangerous of all living things: virusses - probably the most dangerous of all living enitities on our planet!

Answer 5

the human being is by far the most dangerous animal in the human kingdom. We have developed ways to obliterate cities of a 50 mile radius in an instant. Animals known to be deadly predators such as lions and sharks are hunted to near extinction. The reason frail humans are so dangerous is because we poses a weapon far more dangerous that anly living creature known as the human mind. Our cognotive abilities have made us such effeiciet creatures, that otheres haven't had time to catch up. we devise ways to be on top and be so dangerous to compensate for the weakness that is known as the human body. A plain human can't stand up to a lion, but it devises a way to take the predator down

Answer 6

It depends on how you define dangerous, if you mean in terms of injuries from a bite, kick or other then it's a toss up between the Cape Buffalo (Southern Africa) or the Hippo (lower Africa).

In terms of death and suffering it would be the mosquito which is responsible for carrying and infecting humans with many diseases including Dengue fever, Malaria, Ross River fever and many other diseases that often prove fatal.

Answer 7

Man.

Without a doubt is the most dangerous animal in the world. A superior brain has allowed man to develop weapons capable of doing horrendous and tremendous amounts of damage.

Man, as a species alone, is responsible either directly or indirectly for the extinction of thousands of organisms, not to mention inflicting tremendous pain, suffering and death to untold thousands of his own species.

Answer 8

I must say a deer is the most dangerous because they run into the roads and cause car accidents. More people die each year from deer accidents then from any other animal.

Answer 9

Man is the most dangerous animal in the world. Man doesn't only kill other animal because they are hidious looking or a threat, but they kill for fun. Not only does man kill other animals, but they kill other people, sometimes for fun, other times for revenge, and sometimes just because they are told to do so.

Answer 10

Virus - which includes all kind of bacterias for disease. it has been killing its rivals the second most dangerous animal - Human since centuries. and humans are not even closer to distroying them.