I am voting for humans as well.
There doesn’t seem to be total deaths per year figures easily available on the internet. My guess would be Salt Water Crocodile. They are present over a much wider range than tigers including heavily populated areas of Indonesia , Burma, Bangladesh and India.
Can anyone find actual global reported fatalities for Salties?
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!
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!
They do? I’ve never heard of this outside of horror movies. Where is this happening?
I am still going with humans. How many estimated cases of canabalism are there per year. I am betting over 300.
Some cites:
Baby bitten to death by rats
Elderly Woman Killed By Rats
Giant rats eat two babies in South Africa townships in separate attacks
Infant reportedly killed by rat
Pensioner dies after being bitten by rats thriving under fortnightly bin regime
Police: Rat Likely Attacked Infant In Crib
Police Say Rats May Have Killed Baby
Rats Killed Her Baby.; A West Virginia Woman Awakes to Find the Child Dead
Woman Killed by Rats.; Mrs. Van Hart, a Paralytic, Was Attacked While She Slept
Peter Hathaway Capstick, a well-known professional hunter and safari guide wrote extensively about man-eaters. I do not have any of his books at hand for a direct cite, but IIRC he rated crocs as no.1, with lions as a close second.
Capstick wrote a gripping account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of 19th century lions that literally shut down a major British Imperial railway construction project by decimating and terrorizing the construction workers. He also told of personally hunting down a 13-foot crocodile that had killed a native woman, and removing the woman’s arm (with jewelry still attached) from the croc’s stomach.
I’d guess crocodiles/alligators. Leopards, tigers and lions don’t generally hunt humans, it’s only when their regular prey isn’t available to them that they’ll try it, such as if they’re sick or maimed, or their regular prey has been depleted. Crocodiles, by contrast, are perfectly happy to take humans if that’s what on offer. Human cannibalism might not be far off as an answer though.
Grave worms?:eek:
The one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.
This was true a while back, but since they’ve eaten all the purple people already, their kill rate has dropped to zero.
Soylent Green…
dead humans? what do you call those maggots that eat intered corpses? the clear winner!
Wait a second… I thought hippos only ate marbles.
If it’s baby humans we’re talking, there’s always dingoes.
What happens more, people being eaten or OPs being ignored?
I know this is a serious question but this may be the funniest thing I have ever read in a GQ OP.
WAG would probably be crocodiles too.
all we could give would be extreme records. annual death figures from animal attacks just list deaths, not actual ingestion. in the US, around 1,800 died from 1979 to 1990 of which slightly more than 700 were from venomous snake bites. of the remaining 1,100 by non-venomous animals, you have a mix of bears and cougars (sharks don’t seem to figure much.)
for extreme records, the USS indianapolis sank with more than 800. nearly all of these jumped or rode boats so they didn’t go down with the ship. only slightly more than 300 were rescued, the rest drowned or wer eaten by sharks. the british claim 900 japanese soldiers at ramree island were eaten by salt water crocs but japanese claim 500 were evacuated. since the british found 20 survivors, no more than 380 could have been eaten by crocs.
the champawat tiger shot by col. jim corbett was said to have eaten 436 people (wiki.) gustav, the 20-foot nile crocodile, was said to have killed 300. so these two may be your individual record holders.
That only describes the hungry, hungry hippos. The outrageously famished hippos, and sometimes even the moderately peckish hippos, will branch out to organic matter.