The most dangerous animal?

[Chaosolous]

Excluding humans.

[Ocelote.12]

I heard it's a malarial mosquito. Probably kills more people than any predator. Not by itself but by disease it carries. And I'm taking not about one mosquito but about their species at large.

[Psycho]

Lions, wolves, bears

But I think bears are probably the most dangerous in USA. They're not that uncommon, and if you run into one and you don't have a gun on you.. you're pretty much facing death

[The nameless Gamer]

Bacteria. We can only fight them with medication to which they eventually adapt.

[Xero_Daxter]

Crocodiles. 1 good bite and it's game over. I researched the size and they can grow up to be 14 feet long (nile crocodile). The salt water one is even bigger.

[Auckes]

Mosquito, tick, poison dart frog, wasp.

[trousers]

The capybara.

[Chaosolous]

Messaggio originale di dingdong:

The capybara.

The most savage of Hamsters.

[Electric Cupcake]

Messaggio originale di Psycho:

Lions, wolves, bears

But I think bears are probably the most dangerous in USA. They're not that uncommon, and if you run into one and you don't have a gun on you.. you're pretty much facing death

Don't be so dramatic, h8er. ʕ； •`ᴥ•´ʔ

We're not half as dangerous as, say, moose. Or deer ticks.

[Dutchgamer1982]

virusses as a group would be the most deadly, but as those are billions of variants... and not truelly part of the tree of life.. thats not valid answer to OP

we need to pick a single spieces from the tree of annimalia.

when you say most deadly.. you don't said "to humans' so I presume "to all life on earth.

you also did not specify per member or collectively as a group, so I presume, by collective impact on other life.

you also did not specify wheither this leathal effect was potential or actual, like a snakes venom could kill a lot more but it only actually bites so often.

what exactly IS deadly here.. a spieces that kills a larger NUMBER of pray, or kills more other life "by mass"

most annimals only kill to eat, so it makes sense to look at annimals by biomass, a spieces that has more biomass globally, needs to eat more, and thus will kill more.

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most deadly annimals after humans depending on how you look at it :

1 black carpenter ants, by biomass the largest annimal group on earth, so they need to eat the most and by proxy deny the most other life their niche

2 cows, cows are also heavy in biomass, and expell a lot of methane in their farts, cow methane after human factors is the greatest theoretical factor in climate change, a change that has the potential to kill off many spieces.

3 blue whales : individually the largest annimal on earth, who eat krill, one of the smallest annimals, so on an individual basis the largest mass murderer.

[Pieshaman]

On 1 day I thought elephants are the most dangerous.
When I was a kid, rangers gave me 1 milk bottle as a practical joke and then a whole herd of elephants where chasing me and I panic for real and start run like forrest gump with the football.
I got surrounded and I started crying thinking it's my last moment in life before I become a pancake.
While I cry out my lungs, a dozen of elephants sniffing all over me searching for more milk bottles or snacks everywhere over my body.
The rangers had fun though, they all laughing out loud.

[Tiberius]

Catgirls

[Dozer]

humans

[Bomb Shot]

Aggressive panda

[Ni-Neith]

Shark.
When I swim far out to sea, for some reason I always think about sharks.

[Mauserich]

The most dangerous animal in Germany is the tick.