Tell that to the farmers who sit out with their shotguns in the lambing season.
The webpages that Google.co.uk throws up seem to ignore that many foxes are killed before they get to the flocks.
The phrase ‘slaughter like a fox in a henhouse’ is well-deserved.
Foxes are vermin.
I’ll throw rats into the mix, although in terms of sheer numbers from anaphalactic shock I guess bees and wasps come out top.
Incidentally, for all those who have suggested horses/cows etc, the OP spcified wild animals: attacks by dogs on infants would account for many deaths per year if domestic animals are to be included.
Apparently, during the mating season randy deer occasionally try to er… shag people. Especially menstruating women.
England! Living there must be something else.
Around here we have the shiny-leafed stinging tree (Dendrocnide moroides): the only plant known to kill humans by contact.
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Agback
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Is everything in Oz toxic?
Or is this merely the long-term effects of exposure to Vegemite?
I know that you Australians take danger in your stride, but could you at least hint at the horror of your native flora and fauna when you name it?
If you could call it the “many-spined tree of doom” or something then at least we would know to avoid it!
As for poisonous animals in the UK, if you are perpared to wade out a few yards into the sea you could step on a weaver fish - many times more venemous than an adder.
And the most poisonous fish in the world is the stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa. Guess where that’s found. 
On the other hand, more people get killed by wasp and bee stings then by snake bites. I would also like to add that flies and tics can be quite harmful too.
Yes, but moose are called elk on this side of the Atlantic.
To clarify, the animal with the big hat rack and the lugubrious expression is called a moose in North America and an elk in Europe; the large deer with conventional pointed antlers is variously called an elk or a wapiti.
There are no wild examples of either in the UK, and so I would estimate that most people here probably use the American terminology. There don’t seem to be any in zoos either at the moment, unless someone can provide a cite to the contrary.
Did all the wild boars get exterminated in Britain also? I should think any wild or feral pig would be quite dangerous, but does Britain have any left?
No, Lemur866, no feral pigs left.
We do have feral goats tho’.
That’s not correct, there are wild boar at various locations in Kent and East Sussex, and in Scotland. They are not direct descendents of any ancient wild population though, but escaped from farmed herds some time in the 1980s. The total population in the wild is unknown but was estimated at around 300 in February 1991.
I ought to correct myself here – yabob has already pointed out that the North American elk, or wapiti, is what we call the red deer and we have thousands of wild ones in the UK.
Thanks. I was beginning to think I was talking into a vacuum.
Well UK does have the most poisonous fungi, Death Cap and Destroying Angel.
http://www.jinnita.com/toxicology/toxicplants.html
Most dangerous animals in the UK? Tinky Winky, Laa-laa, Dipsy and Po. You really have to watch out for that Po: more cunning than a heffalump, more elusive than a woozle, and far more fierce than even the frumious bandersnatch.
Hmm, yes, wasps are aggressive little bastards (unlike bees) but I still think people actually getting stung by them is extremely rare.
One interesting little factoid about bees from the British Beekeepers Association is that apparently they know that the Earth is a sphere:
Phew! that’s a relief!
(I was beginning to feel quite inadequate, but now that we have something that is the most dangerous of its kind in the world, I can feel my masculinity returning).
(your location field doesn’t say where you live)Do you live in the UK?
People get stung by wasps all the time, well not individually ‘all the time’, but wasp stings are by no means an uncommon occurrence especially in children. Of course the stings are rarely fatal.
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