animals !

Bears: 5-10 fatalities per year

Many of us had teddy bears as a child.

Beautiful and cuddly in appearance, real-live bears - grizzly, polar, and black - are all beautiful but immensely strong, quick, and defensive creatures.

The more humans encroach on their territory, the more aggressive they are forced to become. If faced with an angry bear who is snuffling or pawing the ground, back away slowly while throwing sticks and stones and shouting

Jellyfish: About 100 fatalities per year

These fascinating and beautiful creatures can be tiny or very large.

Jellyfish tentacles can paralyze a human and cause a heart attack.

The Box Jellyfish is one of the most venomous ocean creatures in the world and it's sting can kill a human within minutes following a brush of contact.

Swimming is banned during jellyfish season in many areas.

If you are stung, get out of the water and apply vinegar to any stings left in the skin to remove the venom.

Brush or lift off the sting using a credit card or anything else handy

Mosquitoes: 2-3 million fatalities per year

These tiny pests are not only annoying, but they are incredibly efficient at spreading disease and so easily earn their spot at number one.

Mossies spread malaria and elephantiasis, yellow fever, dengue fever, and West Nile virus.

The latter was introduced to North America by the mosquito and is now prevalent throughout. Mosquito nets are the best way to protect yourself. One treated with DDT is most effective.

In malaria zones, wear long, light-coloured clothing in the evening.

Aye-Aye:

Considered by locals as a harbinger of misfortune, the Aye-aye is one of the world’s most rare and bizarre looking primates.

To the Malagasy people, the aye-aye is magical, and believed to bring death to the village it appears in; therefore they’re often killed on sight.

The aye-aye is the world’s largest nocturnal primate with an average head and body length of 16 inches (40 centimeters), a long bushy tail of 2 feet (61 centimeters) long, and weighs about 4 pounds (2 kilos).

The Aye-aye has large beady eyes, black hair, and large spoon-shaped ears.

It has 5-fingered hands with flat nails, with a middle finger up to 3 times the length of the others

Star-Nosed Mole:

One of the most intriguing stars in the universe is right here on Earth:

the eleven pairs of pink fleshy appendages ringing the snout of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata).

From its appearance and location, one would think this star might be a supersensitive olfactory organ, helping the nearly blind mole negotiate its subterranean environment, or an extra hand for grasping prey or manipulating objects.

Some researchers have hypothesized that the star detects electric fields, thus acting as a kind of antenna.

But in reality, the star is an extraordinary touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, called Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around.

Giant Leaf-Tailed Gecko:

The Giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) is endemic to Madagascar and the islands Nosy Bohara and Nosy Mangabe.

These geckos live in tropical rain forests and reach a total length of 330 mm.

A large nocturnal gecko, by day it plasters it self to a small tree trunk and rests head down.

If disturbed it will raise it tail and head, open its mouth and scream... and call his mom.

Chupacabra

We think of vampires as suave fellows in black tuxedos and silk capes.

But that's only our common Transylvanian vampire, Dracula, invented by 19th-century novelist Bram Stoker. (Dracula, incidentally, has some historical basis in a 15th-century count known as Vlad the Impaler. His name says it all.)

But the vampire myth is both older and younger than Vlad. The Chinese were telling stories about a vampire called giang shi as early as 600 BC.

there have been recent stories of a new vampire called the chupacabra.

The chupacabra kills goats and cattle by sucking the blood out of them.

Nothing else is known about it--that's what makes it scary.

You can imagine anything. So ... for all I know the chupacabra might be a two-legged tree-stump with a beak and a cape.

Come to think of it, the scare-o-meter reading just dropped.

Final score: 1 1/2 (10 if you're a goat)

The blobfish

lives off the coast of Tasmania and Australia.

The body of the blobfish is made up of mostly gelatin, not muscle.

The blobfish is slightly less dense than the water around it so it floats right above the seafloor.

Since the blobfish has no muscle it just eats whatever floats near him or her.

The blobfish may or not be related to Ziggy

Giant chupacabras snail

The invention of Dr. Takeshi Yamada scandalize the other is a giant slug that is found from sea terdalam.

Legs like chupacabra, because it is named darkanimal snail

Giant carnivorous snail

The other findings are the carnovorous snail which was found in early 2007.

This snail also hs weapons that they say is very toxic death

Fiji Mermaid

6 feet length is similar with a mermaid which was found Shikoku, Japan.

Called Ningyo Shinko.

Many Shinto and Buddhist come to pray in temple every day.

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