# What animal eats the most humans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-eats-the-most-humans/595123 "2011-09-04T00:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-eats-the-most-humans/595123/41 "2011-09-05T07:26:22Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > [iucncsg.org - 404](http://iucncsg.org/ph1/modules/Crocodilians/attacks.html) > > This says Nile Crocodiles kill a lot more than saltwater crocs. Nile crocs kill an average of over 300 people a year. > > We may have a winner! [Worldwide](http://libby101a.hubpages.com/hub/The-10-Most-Deadliest-Animals-On-the-Planet) they kill 2000 people a year, toping the list of kill and eat predators, given that snakes don’t eat many of their victims. Next we have to skip over elephants with 500, because they don’t eat people either. After that is lions worldwide. (And dogs in the US specifically, but again they tend not to eat their victims.) Bears and sharks are below that but still high in the US causes of death (“[high](http://historylist.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/human-deaths-in-the-us-caused-by-animals/)” being relative, given at most they average a death every two years). ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-eats-the-most-humans/595123/42 "2011-09-05T07:37:05Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Soylent Green… To serve man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-eats-the-most-humans/595123.md?page=2)