Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water

[Kelliezgirl]

Horses are generally falls though, rather than aggressive attacks?

Usually, yes.
Here in the States deer are one of the deadliest animals, but generally it's because you hit a deer, wrecked your car and died.

 

[SimonDoom]

Non-human animals actually most likely to kill people in Australia:

1. Horses (172 deaths 2001-2017)
2. Bovines (82)
3. Dogs (53)
= 4. Kangaroos, snakes (37)
6. Bees (31)
7. Sharks (27)
8. Crocodiles (21)

https://files.ncis.org.au/2023-06/Fact sheet - FS20-01 - Animal-related deaths in Australia.pdf

What you fail to note is that Australian horses and bovines are FAR more dangerous than their American counterparts. Or so I hear. They WANT to kill you; they're just behind fences most of the time.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Horses are generally falls though, rather than aggressive attacks?

Mostly falls, yeah, but even without the 108 deaths from falls they'd still be #2 on the list. Large herbivores are surprisingly dangerous.

 

[Bramblethorn]

What you fail to note is that Australian horses and bovines are FAR more dangerous than their American counterparts. Or so I hear. They WANT to kill you; they're just behind fences most of the time.

America has Heck cattle. Presumably imported alongside Werner von Braun.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Mostly falls, yeah, but even without the 108 deaths from falls they'd still be #2 on the list. Large herbivores are surprisingly dangerous.

Speaking of herbivores...
Hippos are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa.
Good thing they never made it to Australia. They'd have evolved into something even scarier.
Like Pablo Escobar's hippos.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/americas/colombia-pablo-escobar-hippos-scli-intl-scn/index.html

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks...yes-hippos-kill-around-500-people-year-africa

 

[SimonDoom]

America has Heck cattle. Presumably imported alongside Werner von Braun.

I had to look that up. Sounds like a much more German concept than American.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I had to look that up. Sounds like a much more German concept than American.

We've already got Longhorns, we don't need weird German cows.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Wasn't it a sting-ray that did in Steve Irwin? He was beyond fearless into the territory of crazy. That Professor Fry also also looks way too comfortable holding a cobra.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I had to look that up. Sounds like a much more German concept than American.

Originally, but I understand they've been imported to the USA, to solve the problem of regular cows not being dangerous enough.

Wasn't it a sting-ray that did in Steve Irwin? He was beyond fearless into the territory of crazy.

It was, though it sounds like that particular one was mostly just extremely bad luck. Both to be stung at all, and that it hit his heart.

That Professor Fry also also looks way too comfortable holding a cobra.

He's got thick gloves on, and from where he's holding it, it doesn't have enough reach to bite him anywhere else. Though if it were a spitting cobra, all bets would be off.

 

[ronde]

I recently saw a T-shirt that said, "Everything will kill you, so pick something fun." Sounds like good advice to me.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Wasn't it a sting-ray that did in Steve Irwin? He was beyond fearless into the territory of crazy. That Professor Fry also also looks way too comfortable holding a cobra.

Yes, a stingray barb right into his chest.

 

[Trionyx]

My father always told me a horse could only get to that happy, green pasture in the sky if it killed a human here on earth.