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I watch a lot of nature documentaries. For all of the hype and awareness over deadly toxic animals like cone snails and blue ring octopi, I was expecting genuine waves of fatalities to match their dread reputations. Looking them up, about as rare and random as winning lotto.
But indeed Australia is the most dangerous place for shark attacks-
Where are the most fatal shark attacks in the world?
Australia
Australia endured a disproportionate number of shark bite fatalities, accounting for 22% of all attacks and four deaths, 40%, three of which occurred in one remote surfing destination off the Southern coast. The Bahamas, Egypt, Mexico and New Caledonia also reported fatal shark attacks.
But still, that really not that many. The Box Jelly kills about one Australian a year, maybe less.
Setting aside insects etc, wild animals really arent that dangerous anywhere.
Yep. Octopuses, however. 
Insects are the most dangerous with Mosquitos killing around 700,000 per year.
But reptiles, fish-like creatures, mammals, etc- really not that dangerous in the big scheme of things, and in most cases, some caution would make you nearly 100% safe.
Dangerous? While true to an extent, mosquitoes are not the direct cause of those deaths - it’s the little parasitic microbes doing the heavy-lifting there. More people survive mosquito bites than do not.
C’mon, man! You are taking all the fun out of this thread! Do you not want the rest of the world to know all 300M Americans and a few Canadians are living in fear and are in mortal danger of grizzly attack at any moment!!
Mea culpa, I guess I am a party pooper here. 
Ooops.
It was supposed to say in Japan.
While I appreciate the humor, there is value in knowing that poisonous snakes kill more people in the US than all non-human mammal attacks put together, by a factor of 6 or more. Sharks have killed 10 people in the US over the past 9 years or so which is still much less than snakes. Our international audience should be made aware that the documentary Sharknado exaggerated the risks to non-swimmers to some extent.
I just wanted to poke my head in to say that mountain lion (puma, cougar, all same cat) attacks on humans are so rare that only 125 have ever been recorded (records kept since 1890) of which 27 were fatal.
Generally speaking humans vastly, even hysterically, overestimate how dangerous large wild animals are. You know what’s dangerous? Cows.
And this is how Australian boys become men. In contrast, latching on to your first conspiracy theory or beating up a homeless person is the rite-of-passage for Americans.
Looking into the Japanese situation, it seems the Ussuri brown bear, a very large brown bear subspecies, is the deadly bear there. There are over 10 000 of these in Hokkaido with an area of just 80 000 km2, which seems to me a huge bear density. Couple this with Hokkaido’s human population density, many times that of Northern Europe, and the Ussuri brown bear’s habit of fattening themselves with crops (not unusual among bear in itself), and the bear problem has its reasons.
Most of the bear attacks are not in Hokkaido, however and the Asian black bear seem to be responsible and most of the attacks are in northern Honshu.
Here is a video of an attack by an asiatic black bear.
Last year had a bad crop for the natural food of the bears.
A long term problem is that with the declining rural population, fewer farmers and other residents are taking steps which made a clearer boundary between the deeper woods and populated areas. For example, farmers used to gather dead tree branches from the woods near their fields for firewood. (Back in the early 80s, my then girlfriend’s family collected firewood this way to heat their bath water.)
Here is an article.
Not Central Jersey but it did happen in North Jersey. A college student was killed 10 years ago. I’ve seen bear in the area and they can be huge.
I haven’t been in Germany for 20 years but the boar could be very aggressive. They are looking for food. The Hohenfels army training area is overrun with them. Soldiers have to be very careful with trash and bringing snacks into the field. You could easily find a boar in your tent going through your gear. Never heard of fatalities but there have been injuries.
What can I say, apart from huge differences in population densities and hunting pressure across Europe?
There are thousands of wild boar up here, but the idea that you could find a boar in your tent is nothing short of bizarre. They are pretty much like ghosts, never to be seen even by avid outdoorspeople - sure trashing a crop field with gusto in the dead of the night before leaving like the wind, but that’s it. They avoid people like the plague, and thanks to their keen senses of smell and hearing, plus intelligence, also succeed in that.
Buffalo also can be dangerous for foolish tourists.
They have been all over Hohenfels for decades. We would do motor pool guard from inside trucks because the boar would wander through at night. They have hunts each year to cull the population
Well, sure. But so are a whole lot of things which would be benign at a respectful distance.
We had feral pigs (wild boar is the same thing) in California. The grown males really give one pause. I saw one cross our driveway, about the size of a sofa. But less tolerant than a sofa.
Tell me about it. They’re all over my part of Missouri, and the destruction they can (and do) wreak on agriculture and the environment cannot be overstated. My feelings on gun control are mixed, and I know that the whole “I need military hardware to protect my land against feral hogs!!” is kind of a trope. But the thing is, those guys are like Mongo from Blazing Saddles: bullets just make them angry.
A story about stingrays.
When I was about 7 or 8 we lived in a coastal town in Victoria that was divided from the next town by a tidal river. It was the middle of summer, and a stinking hot night, so the family and a couple of friends wandered down to the riverside for a reprieve from the heat.
It was an ebb tide, so no fast flowing water, and I decided to jump in the river to show-off my new-found floating skills to my mum. With arms and legs akimbo, I stuck my head half into the water, and just whiled away the time.
On the shore, my family/friends noticed a whole school of stingrays gliding below me (water was about 3’ deep) and yelled at me to get out of the water. But of course, i couldn’t hear a thing (ears submerged) and was blissfully unaware of the danger. Thank goodness I COULDN’T hear the yells, because I would have panicked and likely suffered an injury, or worse.
Anyway, that story was part of the family folklore for many years…and whilst I was a major player, had no idea what all the fuss was about.
If you hang about in any estuarine areas in Southern Qld/Northern NSW this sort of stingray encounter is not too uncommon. I nearly stepped on one weekend before last. They simply aren’t that dangerous, 99.9% of the time
Steve Irwin was stunningly unlucky.