Man, or, more scientifically - Homo Sapiens - always regarded as the pinnacle of evolution. Sole ruler of planet Earth. Armed with a sharp wit and deadly weapons for decades, he believes it is winning the battle with nature. But how is it really?
Avtora.com a list of ten animals, proud war that Homo Sapiens lost annually. Here are the most dangerous enemies in nature.
10.
Jellyfish
Victims: Over 100 persons per year
How they kill: They look damn beautiful and graceful as a man watching them in the documentary. The truth is that the right word in the previous sentence is "hell." Jellyfish are among the most dangerous and deadly organisms on our home planet. When they feel threatened some species not only move away from the path of pink creature with four legs and a wetsuit, but even tend to attack him directly. In the reach of their tentacles with the skin, the effect resembling burns. At best, one can get away with a simple rash, but sometimes before with jellyfish leads directly to stop the heart or lungs. Even with less "sting" people often panic, resulting in drowning.
9.
Hippos
Victims: Over 200 persons per year
How they kill: Hippos can seem silly and cute when you watch them from a safe distance the cage at the zoo. In nature, however, hurtling around the snout of hippopotamus hide heavy mass of muscle and surprisingly violent temper. Hippos are particularly pronounced tendency to attack, when - like most animals - kept small. Despite its impressive weight hippos are generally faster than humans. The fact that many Africans recognize annually a fatal delay. Besides the opportunity to overrun his victims, hippos have incredibly powerful jaws that do not fail to use when needed. And once bitten in their iron grip hippos just drag their victims into the deep where them drown.
8.
lions
Victims: Over 250 people a year
How they kill: King of the animals was crowned without reason. Lions are fast, smart and extremely strong. No one can stand in their way when it comes to tasty meal with red meat. In 1898 only 9 months 2 male lions eating over 140 workers of the railway network in Africa. Much later case by the popularity prodobi movie "The Ghost and the Darkness." Conclusion: When a person is attacked by something with speed and weight of a small car, whose first reaction when the victim has his hands begin to tear meat from the body, the chances of survival tend to zero kelvin.
7.
Bees
Victims: Over 400 people a year
How do they kill: Yes, we all love honey. Not all bees, however, are willing to provide it to us voluntarily. Although solitary bee can do almost anything (except, of course, brought the sting severe allergic shock) to counter the swarm is extremely difficult, as we learn from cute cartoons in which characters run like crazy to the nearby river to escape. Bees (especially wild ones in South and Central America and Africa) are extremely sensitive topic area and attacked not only unreasonable if one person starts to handle their hive with a stick. A thousand simultaneous stings are something less armored creatures can withstand.
6.
African bulls
Victims: Over 500 persons per year
How do they kill: In an attempt to see revenge for their brothers, dying in the Arena game toreros, African bulls are aggressive, move in herds and are extremely unpredictable as behavior. Generally herbivorous, these animals are very nervous in the presence of a predator, as indeed is the man. Besides the possibility foolish individual to be stabbed with a horn (which, at the high speed at which the bulls run directly crushing fall their way head or chest) accidentally survival is short lived moving forward after the first herd of just trample.
5.
Elephants
Victims: Over 600 people a year
How do they kill: Forget the heart-breaking films like "elephant, my friend." The largest land mammal on the planet can be very harmful to health. Although in many places in Africa and South Asia, elephants were used to transport agricultural activities, they can be very nervous about bad behavior and become the deadliest servants of the people. The most serious weapon elephants size, which is hard to resist, unless you're armed with - say - a tank. The elephant can run over a man to kill him with his trunk and tusks without hardly any effort. What's worse is that it does quite often, given the statistics.
4.
Crocodiles
Victims: Over 2,000 people a year
How do they kill: A single look at these beasts kept visible link with the prehistoric, dinosaur ancestors to realize that it is extremely unwise idea to hang them. Crocodiles are found in the U.S., the tropics, Africa, Asia and Australia and have a bad habit of lurking when the time comes to attack fast and deadly. Their bite is a force of 5,000 pounds per square inch, more than five times the power of any terrestrial carnivore. Once bitten victim falls in their vortex of pain - often literally, because crocodiles have a bad habit to turn to break every bone in your body or to separate one another limb. If this accident did not help that crocodiles dragged the victim into the water where they drown.
3.
Scorpions
Victims: Over 5,000 people a year
How do they kill: These creatures are found practically everywhere south of the 49th parallel and - as we know - many of their species are highly toxic. In addition, scorpions have the ability to inject his venom against the size of the victim and his own judgment to what extent that danger. Their venom contains toxins that generally lead to convulsions and hit directly in the cerebellum, leading to a ban on the activity of the lungs. It suffocation.
Except in the African heat, scorpions survive without a problem even at extremely low temperatures in the Andes or the Himalayas, so the fact that you do not plan to go into the desert in no way should make you feel safe.
2.
Snakes
Victims: Over 100,000 people a year
How do they kill: Virtually every continent enjoys a presence of at least some particularly deadly snake species. Only in Africa and South America there are over 100 species of snakes, which is better not to meet. The reasons are simple to attack - you invaded their territory, which makes them feel threatened. The most dangerous species of snakes, such as the Asian cobra, also known as the black mamba can kill adult venom for several minutes. Effects of bite range from paralysis to uncontrollable vomiting. Let's not forget the very large snakes that do not even need poison because they can crush a man's bones (Boat) or just swallow it (pitonat).
1.
Mosquitoes
Victims: Between two and three million people per year
How do they kill: The deadly enemy of man actually has a rather pathetic-looking insect. Of course, the problem is not in the core and their unfortunate habit of turning their nights in Sozopol hell for tourists. On our planet there are over three thousand species of mosquitoes, each capable of carrying deadly diseases ranging from malaria to South Nile virus. The most deadly point in this case comes from the fact that one can not even pay attention to the bite, inject infection in his blood. We should not ignore and that mosquitoes are very adaptable and as a result none of the tools that man has invented, to keep them away from yourself, do not work for long.
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