If you guys would tell us your location, this thread wouldn’t be so meaningless.
As for me, a skunk.
Holy shit, those things are serious:eek:
For mine, proximity doesn’t equal likelihood to attack. So, I’ll consider the rats and possums that live in the shed as not a threat. The possum is scared of me anyway and we don’t have rabies here. Likewise spiders, they’re around but don’t bother me. No lions, tigers, wolves or bears in Australia to worry about.
Most likely to attack,
Bee’s (it’s spring here and the pollen is out, bees are around, and I’m allergic to them)
Magpies. Nesting season, park next door. Mind you, I feed them and I’ve never been swooped yet.
Snakes or Kangaroos are a possibility but only if I venture into the nearby forest.
Scorpions, probably (in Las Vegas).
Raccoon and opossum posse, with supporting air assault by starlings and scrub jays.
And slugs, of course. Okay, and aphids.
While riding in the back woods of N/W Arkansas, black bears are often seen.
If it is Mama with cubs, back away slowly. If you get between them, the first intelligent observer who stay way back and is brave nuff to count coup on your bike gets it cause you won’t be needing it again.
Some dog packs go feral and don’t have much back up in them os if you live out and there is the right mix of woods & cattle, those have been known to be a bit nasty.
Everybody, Copper head and a few other poison snakes depending.
Just heard 3-4 coyotes a little North of us but they are shy about people, chickens & such, not so much.
Yorkshire: So far I have been chased by cows, goats & seagulls. But a friend of mine just got bitten on the nose by a (tame) ferret, which is far more embarrassing…
I work as a natural resource officer and spend 65% of my time in the field.
I’ve encountered bears and moose in my line of work, and luckily other than firing a warning shot, it’s always had a positive outcome.
Either a snake (puffadder, cape cobra, boomslang…I have my pick, yay) or a Great White Shark. The odds are very slim on either of those, though. A few years ago, I would much more likely be attacked by baboons (we narrowly avoided one such by locking ourselves in our server room), but I don’t work in that suburb anymore.
My regular birdwatching locales do carry with them a non-zero chance of attack by either hippo or penguins but again, odds are miniscule.
On the other hand, there’s pretty much nothing that we can’t do more damage to than they can do to us.
Mossie is definitely my number-one predator … however, everyone else in the family would have to pick something else, as they eat me for preference. Maybe nesting magpie. They’ve been getting frisky lately…
About the only one would be a stray or feral dog, which may not count.
I’m not sure if there are any deadly poisonous snakes here, but in my experience most snakes will do everything in their power to avoid a human.
Wasps
Excluding rabid animals, probably a wild hog. Or a swan. I’m in Germany.
Yellow jackets (I was menaced at the frozen custard place just last weekend).
I suppose there’s always a chance of a rabid mammal like a raccoon or coyote attacking, but it hasn’t happened in the over ten years I’ve lived in deepest darkest suburbia. Or a doe could try and get me if I inadvertently menaced her fawn (just saw a chilling video of a doe stomping a hapless dog who was seen as a threat).
English city- probably a fox. They rarely attack humans, but there’s several living just over the road, and they’re really confident around people, so I suppose it’d be possible. We don’t have rabies.
We really don’t have anything properly dangerous- wasps, bees, mossies, no other invertebrates likely to go for you.
Adders have been seen within the city boundaries, but only once or twice, and they’re really not very dangerous, and they’re the only even vaguely dangerous snakes.
There are a few deer around, but only roe, which are small, and don’t even tend to do much damage to cars if you hit them (there are some red deer in a deer park you can walk through in the city, come to think of it, if they count, they’d be no 1).
Badgers? I’ve met someone who had a finger bitten off by one, but European badgers aren’t very aggressive, so that’s very rare- he was trying to rescue one at the time. There’s a sett just round the corner, apparently, but I’ve not seen them.
Bats? They’re around, but non-rabid, and unlikely to bite unless you pick one up.
Birds? Geese, gulls, I suppose.
Is it ‘in your area’ or literally where I am? In my bedroom, it’s all pretty unlikely, though a wasp did get in yesterday.
I googled mossie, and this is what I learned: The Mossie was an American rap group from Vallejo, California, composed of three members: Kaveo, Mugzi and Tap Dat Ass. :eek:
Around here, we’re most likely to be bitten by a tick.
I guess I could get a gator to take me if I behaved recklessly enough.
Around here it would be seagulls.
Pigeons. Lots and lots of pigeons.
What about drop bears?
Living in North Georgia - I’ve had copperheads in my yard for years, although I very rarely saw them. Except for this spring when we saw 2 in a week, including one sunning on our driveway.
I’ve been attacked by wasps - but only after running over their nest with a lawnmower.
We’ve also had a deer get its antlers trapped in our hammock in the backyard - but my wife took care of that one.
Oh - and a squirrel got trapped in our chimney. I’m sure it would have attacked given the opportunity (it sounded mighty angry).
Ants. With the random black widow spider thrown in for good measure.