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For simplicity's sake, we're going to assume you wish to know what animal is responsible for the most human deaths per year. Thankfully, the good people at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park have the answer. We were expecting a big fearsome creature like the crocodile, lion, or shark to be the most deadly. However, the real number-one killer is much smaller and far more annoying -- the mosquito. According to the Smithsonian, female Anopheles mosquitoes, which carry malaria, kill over 1 million people every year. The site Live Science agrees, rating the mosquito
number one on its list of the top 10 deadliest animals. But what if you don't count the mosquito as an actual animal? In that case, it appears the hippopotamus is the deadliest. This article by Allan Taylor states, "More people are killed by the hippopotamus than any other wild animal, either by being trampled to death or having their boat capsized." Yikes, anyone up for a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos? Yeah, neither are we.
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