Incredible Facts

Many animals serve as a source of inspiration and admiration for us.

Their beauty is so impressive that sometimes we forget that they are wild animals and we may be their next meal.

21. Bears

Bears usually avoid humans, but they are still dangerous and can easily kill a human. It is believed that about 10 people die from bears every year.

20. Sharks

Sharks attack an average of 75 people every year. Of these, 10 cases are fatal. The most commonly attacked are great white sharks and bull sharks.

19. Leopards

Although a complete database of leopard attacks does not exist, skirmishes between leopards and humans are quite common in India. So, for example, in one year leopards killed 15 people.

18. Horses

Horses generally have no intention of harming or killing humans. However, while riding horses, accidents often occur, which takes the lives of several dozen people.

17. Cows

Cows seem to be rather meek creatures, but they can be very dangerous if provoked. Several dozen people die every year, mostly from kicking blows.

Animals dangerous to humans

16. Ants

It's hard to believe, but every year about 30 people die from ants.

15. Bees

Despite their small size, bees can kill humans, mostly by causing an allergic reaction. More than 50 people are killed by bees every year, and this number will increase due to aggressive Africanized bees.

14 African Lions

Humans are not usually part of a lion's diet, as they prefer animals with lots of meat. However, lions are known to prey on humans, and about 70 people are killed each year by lions.

13. Jellyfish

Many people know that jellyfish are able to sting painfully with their tentacles and many people die from this. So, for example, according to the Medical Journal of Australia, jellyfish lead to death 15-30 times more people than unprovoked shark attacks around the world.

12. Tigers

Tigers killed more people than any other big cats. According to some reports, from tens to hundreds of people die from the paws of wild tigers, not including those who live in captivity.

11. Deer

Deer antlers can be fatal to humans. However, most of the deaths caused by deer are not due to their antlers, but due to accidents on the road. Reindeer often cross the road and stop in the middle of the road, causing car collisions. About 120 people die each year due to deer.

10. Domestic dogs

Every year, several hundred people die from dog attacks. If provoked, domestic and stray dogs can be just as dangerous as wild animals. It is worth noting that the most aggressive actions on the part of dogs are the result of incorrect human behavior.

9. African buffalo

African buffaloes are heavy animals that can weigh up to 1.5 tons, grow up to 1.7 meters, and are 2.8 meters long. These animals attack people with sharp horns, especially if they feel danger. According to statistics, they cause about 200 deaths per year.

The most dangerous animals in the world

8. Elephants

Large elephants can be very dangerous if provoked. The largest terrestrial animal can weigh up to 7000 kg and reach a height of 4 meters. Elephants kill about 500 people every year.

7. Crocodiles

Crocodiles are huge and very dangerous animals that are able to merge with environment and become deadly machines in the water. About 1000 -2500 people die every year from crocodiles.

6 Hippos

Considered the most dangerous animal in Africa, the hippopotamus seems to be a rather peaceful mammal, but rather cruel when provoked. About 2,900 people die each year from hippos.

5. Scorpions

One of the oldest animals on earth, scorpions have evolved from sea ​​creatures in dangerous terrestrial animals 340 million years ago. There are between 1300 and 2000 species of scorpions in the world, but only 25 of them contain poison that is dangerous enough to kill a person. However, 1,000 to 5,000 people die from scorpions every year.

4. Snakes

If you are afraid of snakes, your fear is justified. Snakes kill an average of 50,000 people worldwide each year. Most deaths are caused by snakes that are frightened by the presence and actions of humans.

3. Tsetse flies

Tsetse flies spread sleeping sickness, which affects about 500,000 people, 80 percent of whom die.

2. Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are one of the smallest animals on this list, but among the deadliest. These insects carry deadly diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, which kill between 660,000 and 1 million people a year.

1. People

While this is a fairly predictable end to this list, no one has ever been more successful at killing people than humans themselves.

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This is one of the most popular types of hunting animals related to large ones. Noisy mass corrals are arranged for him in the hope, after successful shots, not only to feast on fresh liver, but also to bring home at least a few kilograms of delicious underyearling meat. If permission is obtained for the extraction of an adult boar and the funds allow you to shoot a billhook with impressive fangs, then there is a chance to become the owner of a beautiful trophy. Unfortunately, in this case, the meat is not very High Quality, although there are many.

In addition, hunting for a cautious powerful beast is always emotional, and often dangerous - adrenaline after it in the blood is abundant.

The boar does not need to be described, each represents its appearance and main features of behavior, comparing it with domesticated "relatives". However, it is quite different from a well-fed and “whitened” domestic pig. It is only worth mentioning that with his short legs he is “not a walker” in deep snow, but his wedge-shaped body with a muzzle stretched forward helps him to break through, like a battering ram, thickets of grasses, bushes, and even snowdrifts.

Nowadays it is very widespread, but it should be remembered that even in middle lane, not to mention the more northern areas of its habitat, the wild boar cannot survive a snowy winter without human help. Only thanks to the constant feeding by employees of hunting farms, it is possible to keep the populations at an acceptable level of numbers. In particularly difficult winters, emaciated underyearlings grab the food brought to the feeding area almost from the hand of a long-time familiar huntsman. So hunting for a wild boar is strictly regulated: each animal has its own "owner", who spent some money on it. But experienced huntsmen are well aware that a poorly fed animal, if it does not die, will definitely go to a more generous neighbor. In the summer, the wild boar will always find shelter and food in almost any forest, and even in marshy vines overgrown with reeds and sedges, and reeds. But still, in the anthropogenic landscape, he will prefer fields with agricultural crops: corn, potatoes, beets, oats.

All these circumstances determine the methods of hunting wild boar. Even if the hunter goes to him alone, then only with the knowledge and under the control of the huntsman. But most often, corrals are arranged for a wild boar. An experienced pig leads a herd of wild boars - it is not so easy to drive him to shooters. Departing from the beaters, the animals go quickly and carefully through the strongest places, stopping under the cover of writhing, brushwood, and thickets to sniff and listen. Clearings and other open places they slip on high speed. So it is rarely possible to shoot at a standing boar in driven hunting, and it is very difficult to hit a running boar with a bullet.

No wonder there is special exercise for shooters-hunters "running boar" to learn to shoot at a moving target. Therefore, although pens may be short-lived, very often they end up wasted.

Even experienced driven shooters cannot always reliably bring down a wild boar with one or two shots. Moreover, only underyearlings are allowed to shoot with buckshot, only a bullet is suitable for an adult boar. And even that, not everyone can pierce the Kalkan or the skull of this “well-cut and tightly sewn” animal. Scientists are aware of amazing cases of amazing survivability of wild boars, when the most terrible bullet wounds healed on the beast, including on the skull. This confirms the truth known to hunters that a wild boar must be shot from a reliable weapon and in place. In the instructions to the hunter they write:


“Shooting a wild boar and an elk is allowed in killing places (with a bullet) - in the neck and behind the shoulder blade, in the heart. An oncoming boar can be shot head-on, letting it get closer to reduce aiming error. But it’s better to let the beast through and shoot him half-stealing in the neck or heart. It is impossible to shoot at the head of an animal running or standing at a considerable distance, since there is very little chance of hitting the brain, which is insignificant compared to the total size of the head, and the injury to the jaws, which is more likely with such shooting, will not stop the animal and will lead to its slow death from exhaustion.

Wild boar hunting from ambush, which is most often equipped on a tower, is becoming more common. From above it is more convenient to aim the right animal among the rest, and it is more difficult for boars to smell a person. Experienced organizers of the hunting economy know where it is best to place the tower - hunting from it for a long time can be effective.

There are many stories among hunters about escaping on a tree from an angry wounded billhook, who very often attacks the offender. They wrote that V. Vysotsky had to save himself in this way. German hunters even make a weather vane for a hunting lodge in the form of a silhouette of a similar picture.

Usually everything ends well, but sometimes there are tragic cases. Here are the words of the military doctor V. Kryzhov: “The wild boar broke the femur with its sharp fangs and tore the main vessels of the hunter, who did not have time to dodge. Death came from acute blood loss and traumatic shock.

The trail of a wild boar is similar to that of an elk, because both animals on the go imprint not only the main pair of hooves, but also the fingers located above - “stepchildren”. True, the long-legged elk walks widely, and the wild boar takes small steps, moreover, in general, its footprint is smaller in size.

Fans of individual hunts prefer to hunt wild boars, mainly billhooks, from the approach. The wild boar is a very cautious and sensitive animal, but if you approach it at dusk or under the moon from the lee side without too much noise, you can even approach it a few meters. An experienced hunter said that, approaching a feeding boar for an hour or more, taking off his shoes, wearing only woolen socks, he almost "stepped" on the beast - he even had to move back a little to make a full shot.

Among hunters, they talk and argue a lot about the maximum size of the old billhooks. You can often hear how someone "filled up" a wild boar by 300 or more kilograms. When clarifying the details, you are convinced that the weight was determined by eye for lack of suitable scales. Such boars are not common, in most cases much smaller specimens are mistaken for giants.


Wild boars are omnivorous, they literally plow up abandoned fields in the forest, looking for dandelion roots and just as diligently can dig up earthworms. When wolves once disturbed by hunters left a roe deer not eaten by them, its remains were completely destroyed overnight by wild boars, hungry in winter. In warm rainy winters, which are not uncommon in Lately, wild boars may be reluctant to feed, digging rhizomes of reeds and other plants in the swamp.

Go hunting for dangerous and big beast- This is an exciting activity exclusively for men. Having shot a hare or a game, the hunter will also be happy, but in such a hunt you will not feel any struggle or opposition to a strong opponent, when the hunter himself becomes the subject of an animal hunt. There is more than enough adrenaline on such a hunt, since danger lurks literally at every step, in contrast to the paperwork that is required if you need to purchase a visa to China, which you apply for by contacting a professional agency.

The wild boar is one of the most dangerous animals on the hunt.

Brown bear

The most dangerous animal on the hunt in the Russian Federation is considered Brown bear. More than a hundred hunters have suffered from the paws of this smart, strong, cunning and most vicious predator. For inexperienced hunters, the bear is the most dangerous beast, therefore, you can’t go after him alone, who want to get their dose of adrenaline too. The danger posed by forest predator, it threatens with various injuries and even death.

Some will object that in Ancient Rus' they hunted the bear alone, armed only with a horn, but in quiet glories there is more bravado, designed for foreign tourists. Modern hunters consider this type of hunting to be suicide.
It is best to hunt a bear with a group, which consists of at least three people, and the presence of an experienced huntsman is also essential for such a hunt. Those who ignored these rules, written with human blood, have every chance to pay for these mistakes with their lives.

The hunter must know almost everything about bear habits. Hibernation- it's pretty deep dream a powerful predator, but a bear can easily hear rustles while in this state. The sound of a crunching branch easily becomes the reason for his awakening. And hunters who are completely unprepared for this expect the most terrible moments, during which they will have to seriously fight for their lives and health, fighting with a mighty bear.

A wild boar

A wild boar, which also has enough power, strength and anger, is no less dangerous for hunters.
A wild boar weighs more than one hundred kilos, has sharp fangs, the length of which can be 15 cm, and it is they who cause the death of hunters and their faithful helpers - hunting dogs. There were cases when an already wounded wild animal attacked the hunter, wielding its fangs and front legs, in other words, trampling its prey if it caught the hunter or dog by surprise.

Knowing about such a boar habit, huntsmen pre-prepare special platforms in the place of the intended hunt. Remembering that the boar's neck is massive and almost motionless, the animal will no longer be able to trample the hunter.
It must be remembered that the boar shows caution and sensitivity in everything. He is able to see the targets of his pursuers beyond 150 m, not disregarding even minor movements. Sensing danger, he changes the direction of his run with lightning speed. During periods of feeding, the wild boar moves against the wind in order to sense the danger that threatens it in time.

The boar has powerful muscles on the chest, on thick sides and on the back of the neck, which make it almost invulnerable to small-caliber cartridges. A wounded boar completely forgets about caution and rushes with fury to his offenders, i.e. to the hunter and his dog. At the time of the boar's throw, the hunter must jump to the side in a split second, and the animal will run past, and the boars do not attack the second time.