• Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I think that is the invincible snail that chases you forever but if it touches you you die…but in return you are immortal until you get touched.

          It was never a hypothetical, those people asking that were asking the internet for help. RIP

        • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I couldn’t find estimates for snakes and scorpions and completely ignored the invertebrates here, but from those options, Tigers kill the most humans yearly per wild individual.

          There are about 5500 Tigers in the wild killing 50 humans yearly, while 115000 Hippos kill 500 humans yearly.

          So Tigers kill 9 humans per thousand individuals, Hippos kill 4, next would be Lions with 2.5 .

          Maybe they are the more deadly than Tigers on a per species basis since there are only 2 species of Hippo while 6 living species of Tigers exist… but then the other kill statistics would get a lot more precise as well. And I wont even try to analyze how often humans interact with specific animal groups.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        IIRC they kill more humans than any other non-human land animal.

      • SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to hippos. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too

        • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I honestly don’t know what the big deal is. I saw hippos in lots of homes growing up. All they wanted to eat were marbles.

          • SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I encountered that a few times growing up too, I’ll never forget the ravenous way they murdered every marble they saw without a hint of concern for the devastated marble families left behind .

          • shinratdr@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            No, they live mostly off the crumbs of peanut butter on toast.

        • Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans.

          the “do better…” energy of this comment 🤣

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Why is it so hard to tolerate cute, not-yet-dangerous beings, lol…? I mean this chonk looks like it could just chew that leg off aah