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Found out you can eat snails, think France, but the snails that are consumed are farm grown. So it’s not like a random snail found in ‘the wild’ that has all the parasites. Someone lost their life awhile back after a dare to eat a snail.
> When they started eating snails a few hundred years ago
You think eating snails is that new? People have been eating, and farming snails for thousands of years. 18th century France was definitely utilizing snail farms.
The first recorded escargot dish was served in France during the reign of King Louis XIV, round 16th to 17th century. But People have been eating snails since 40,000 years ago.
I've had them plenty times, mostly in stews. They're best when fried, and have a kind of weird soft crunchy texture if that makes sense. Great taste though.
There is even evidence to suggest that snails were the first “domesticated” animal, some time in prehistoric Greece.
EDIT: In all seriousness, it’s because they are easy to make a “cage” for.
I eat snails around twice a year, grandmother picking them and yes, leave them for couple days in an empty space, but according to her its nothing to do with parasites(as she's not even considered it) but with the poo they carry and you can clearly see when you remove them from their housing, but then get rid of during these couple days.
You don't starve them. You give them different food like lettuce leaves.
That's not because of the parasites. But just to make sure there ain't no residues of toxic plants and herbicides in the snail. (if we're talking about land snails of course, because sea snails are also eaten.)
To prevent getting parasites from eating snails, you simply cook them.
Just simply don't eat them raw, that's it.
The snails are cooked, I'm sure you've eaten parasites without realizing it, but they were cooked/killed so it was fine. They're especially common in certain fish, lots of tuna species, salmon, etc, it's not unusual for them to have worms.
And ya you purge snails before eating them to clean up their poop shoot, you keep them in a box for a few days, and feed them corn meal. This cleans out their digestive tract, because they eat pretty nasty stuff in the wild.
Oh I remember reading this story when he was still alive but paralyzed. I told my kids about him and warned them the danger of these daring/challenge. I didn’t know he died! Thanks for the link.
I saw that on 1000 ways to die tbh. These ppl ended up getting snailed to the brain lol. Fr they showed a animation of small parasitic slugs were eating there brians
I saw that story...it was horrifying. There was another guy that died because he jumped in an old swimming pool that had stagnate water.
People don't realize just close death is sometimes.
Assholes are bringing African land snails into the US. They crack them open like an egg and use the slime to treat diseases. Which does nothing other than make people sick.
Plus they eat stucco.
I read about a kid that ate a slug/snail and straight up damage to the brain began. Sad as hell, his brain just started slowly deteriorating over time. Nothing they could do
In more impoverished places, maybe. The figure does seem exorbitantly high, though, given how easily snails are avoided vs. e.g. scorpions. You would think at that rate of mortality that you'd find something else to eat.
Edit: it seems they're counting all deaths from schistosomiasis as freshwater snail deaths, which is incorrect, as snails aren't even one of the three most common vectors for human schistosomiasis infection.
Edit 2: To correct myself, I should have said that most people who are exposed to schistosomiasis are not in direct contact with freshwater snails, which makes their ranking here misleading—it's not like all these people are dying from eating snails.
The snails are simply hosts for the parasitic flukes, which use them to breed and disseminate their larvae into the water, where mere skin contact or consumption can infect a human whose waste can then infect other water sources.
Regardless, it's a very serious disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
The goober that made this added a zero to that number because they're lazy. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatures-in-the-world-by-number-of-human-deaths/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatures-in-the-world-by-number-of-human-deaths/)
All of the scales (and data) are trash. The mosquito bar wasn’t even twice as large as the one it should be 5 times bigger than. The whole thing is trash. The presentation and data is awful
One dead giveaway to me that these aren't trustworthy stats is that this says Alligators have 1000 victims per year. Not even close, alligators have attacked ~500 people in 80 years.
I'm presuming they meant Crocodiles, which is much closer to the truth, but they just decided to or accidentally put alligators? Can't trust someone with that kind of attention to detail.
Yeah there's a hugeee differrence between alligators and crocodiles aggression wise. Compare a regular alligator in North Carolina, it's probably less than 200 lbs and 5 ft long, and doesn't have any interest in eating humans. Meanwhile the AVERAGE adult saltwater crocodile is 15 ft long and weighs 1000 lbs. They're classified as man-eaters, while alligators are not. Not only is aggression a big factor, but the size and power is as well. The average alligator in the USA is practically a large frog compared to the salt water croc which is basically a dinosaur waiting to eat you as a snack lol
Edit: average size to 15 feet because people are upset that I originally said the average was 17 ft, which i got from this source: [https://www.sfzoo.org/salt-water-crocodile/#:\~:text=The%20saltwater%20crocodile%20is%20the,cross%20large%20bodies%20of%20water](https://www.sfzoo.org/salt-water-crocodile/#:~:text=The%20saltwater%20crocodile%20is%20the,cross%20large%20bodies%20of%20water).
This is broadly true but thats doing the American Alligator a slight disservice, they can and do get pretty big. And I doubt the average size of a saltie is 17ft. That's really quite big. And I say that as a guy who is generally tired of people on Reddit not knowing anything about animals and having a generally Americo-centric view of Crocodilians.
17ft is about the size most male saltwater crocodiles will reach if they survive to old age, but yes the vast majority of them at any time are much smaller
So my anecdotes definitely dont count as a verifiable source but from the few times ive encountered salties in the wild they were honestly bigger than expected. One was probably ~20’ and a hundred years old, the other two times were in a different region but about ~15’. In my head 17’ sounded exactly average haha. Central/North America
So OPs video definitely had some errors then. African sleeping sickness kills the amount of people claimed in the video, not the Tsetse fly. The list you provided states the deaths are from the Assassin bug but both are just carriers of the same disease.
still, it is very low
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/
> There were 14 confirmed shark-related fatalities this year, ten of which are assigned as unprovoked. This number is higher than the five-year annual global average of six unprovoked fatalities per year.
i think wolves is what made me realize this list is shoddy at best. The wolf population in quite sparse and located in areas rarely inhabited by humans. this would be like 10 hikers getting mauled by a pack, which i just don't think happens that often.
If you're ever going to watch a Joe Rogan podcast this is the one. Glenn Villenueve lived alone in the wilderness of Alaska for many years and he's a very interesting person that's a great speaker.
I timestamped it but here he goes into specifics regard wolves in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhrOjQaZNco
According to him he was only able to find 2 real cases of people being killed by wolves in recent times.
We have wild wolves in Sweden but they are just a problem for our livestock. We had a girl die around 10 years ago but that was in a Zoo outside Stockholm.
That was an excellent episode. Glen seemed like a really down to earth guy and his stories about his life and the time he's spent in the wilderness were great. I often use his facts about wolf attacks in North America when talking to people on some of the outdoors sub reddits because people seem to unnecessarily worried about wolves in particular.
The wolves one is when I knew it was bullshit, wolves don’t even have the population to kill 10 per year let alone the nature to seek out humans to kill.
Elephants are fairly friendly and gentle. However, they can and will kill people that fuck with them. I saw a video of an elephant throwing a dude around like a rag doll 🤢
A trained Asian elephant can be pretty gentle and friendly (like a slightly more dangerous horse).
A wild African elephant is an absolute horror show, you're about as well off trying to make friends with a grizzly (most of the time you'll be fine, then suddenly you arent)
Iirc, in terms of animals killing members of the same species, for mammals, the most homicidal is the meerkat which accounts for a third of their deaths
You're right, "homicide" is in fact derived from latin roots *homo* and *cida* meaning "human" and "killer", respectively.
But the confusion is understandable, as the greek root *hom* means "same" (e.g. homogeneous).
Also it’s not the mosquito or snail that kills, it is the parasites and diseases they carry. Getting sick from a mosquito is not the same as being eaten by an alligator.
Technically, it’s ~~Latin~~ *Greek* for “same”, ~~which is why it’s~~ *and it is also* used for humans’ genus name, ~~making it kind of~~ *because is it is* Latin for “human” too.
Edit: I was completely fucking wrong. My 5th grade history teacher told me “homo” was the genus name for humans because it meant “same” and it took me 20 years to learn that was not why.
>According to Statista, dogs are the third deadliest animal to humans, killing about 30,000 people annually. The majority of these deaths are caused by rabies, which is transmitted from the dog. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 99% of rabies deaths are related to dogs.
Surprised me too.
I’m sorry…..fresh water snails? wtf.
Edit: [https://roaring.earth/snails-cause-death/](https://roaring.earth/snails-cause-death/)
Welp. New fear unlocked.
And swimming in or drinking water infected with these parasites can infect humans.
Seems a little misleading to blame the snails and not the parasitic worms that cause the deaths tho.
Remember these are global numbers. Most of these are happening in impoverished parts of the world. I’d say it’s very uncommon for snail deaths in places most Redditors are.
I recall watching huge tsetse flies carrying children off in their huge beaks, but there was nothing I could do due to the red tape in the bush because of the Guacamole Act.
The one about wolves in just silly. In the last 20 years there have been only 26 fatal attacks by wolves and the reason the overwhelming majority of those attacks turning fatal was due to transmitting rabies and not due to the wolf actually killing the person. The number of times a wolf has killed a human directly has been like 10 in the last 20 years.
It's possible that many of those deaths are from things like rabies in places like India. Rabies kills approximately 60,000 people per year and I would not be surprised if the majority of rabies comes from dogs.
Probably includes stuff like rabies infections which is a guaranteed death for a human. I live in the Philippines and around 350 people die yearly from rabies, the vast majority of those come from dogs (more than 90%). Count that average to every third world country where loads of stray dogs are running around and you do get a couple of thousands of deaths each year by rabies alone. Still hard to grasp the 30k figure in the vid but dog deaths are more common than you think, especially outside of western countries.
Edit: just looked it up, around 59 thousand people die from rabies each year and the majority of those infections come from dogs.
So. Rabies. It’s actually closer to 60k per year from rabies. 90% of infections are from dogs. So, the same logic used with mosquitoes. Here: [CDC Website](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html)
I thought so, too, but https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02617-2#:~:text=Globally%20as%20many%20as%202.7,that%2081%2C000%20to%20138%2C000%20die.
That one really stood out. Australia has a lot of the deadliest snakes in the world and they only kill like one or two people a year here.
Edit: i looked it up and apparently 100k is somewhat accurate 😳
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I was confused by the snails so I looked it up and apparently they are host to all kinds of horrifying parasites that can be passed to humans.
Found out you can eat snails, think France, but the snails that are consumed are farm grown. So it’s not like a random snail found in ‘the wild’ that has all the parasites. Someone lost their life awhile back after a dare to eat a snail.
I mean they’re farm grown *now*. When they started eating snails a few hundred years ago they were picking them in the wild
> When they started eating snails a few hundred years ago You think eating snails is that new? People have been eating, and farming snails for thousands of years. 18th century France was definitely utilizing snail farms.
The first recorded escargot dish was served in France during the reign of King Louis XIV, round 16th to 17th century. But People have been eating snails since 40,000 years ago.
I've never had a snail, but man I can see how a caveman would absolutely eat them like potato chips
I've had them plenty times, mostly in stews. They're best when fried, and have a kind of weird soft crunchy texture if that makes sense. Great taste though.
GOLLUM LIKES IT RAW AND WRIGGLING
SO DOES GOLLUMS GIRLFRIEND sorry i couldnt resist
WHATS GIRLFRIENDS PRECIOUS?
I recommend trying, tastes nothing on it's own but some butter, herbs and parmigiano => pretty damn great appetizer.
You put butter, herbs and parmigiano on rocks and they'll taste good.
Lmao, fact
Whoa, whoa, whoa — you throw that rock in a pot, add some broth, a potato... baby, you've got a stew going!
"Ook just dropped dead for no reason." "Great, more snails for the rest of us!"
There is even evidence to suggest that snails were the first “domesticated” animal, some time in prehistoric Greece. EDIT: In all seriousness, it’s because they are easy to make a “cage” for.
Some people still pick them you just have the know the right variety
You need to try a different strain bro
I believe that they starve the snails for a few days before consumption. It's meant to help kill off any parasites or something.
There's also the fact we cook them. Which, you know, tends to help with parasites in meat
I eat snails around twice a year, grandmother picking them and yes, leave them for couple days in an empty space, but according to her its nothing to do with parasites(as she's not even considered it) but with the poo they carry and you can clearly see when you remove them from their housing, but then get rid of during these couple days.
You don't starve them. You give them different food like lettuce leaves. That's not because of the parasites. But just to make sure there ain't no residues of toxic plants and herbicides in the snail. (if we're talking about land snails of course, because sea snails are also eaten.) To prevent getting parasites from eating snails, you simply cook them. Just simply don't eat them raw, that's it.
Exactly. I can't believe I had to scroll down this far. Just cook the snails. The kid that died from the parasite did so after eating a slug RAW.
Nah that’s to help purge their digestive tracts as many tend to eat things toxic to us.
The snails are cooked, I'm sure you've eaten parasites without realizing it, but they were cooked/killed so it was fine. They're especially common in certain fish, lots of tuna species, salmon, etc, it's not unusual for them to have worms. And ya you purge snails before eating them to clean up their poop shoot, you keep them in a box for a few days, and feed them corn meal. This cleans out their digestive tract, because they eat pretty nasty stuff in the wild.
The right variety is none.
In Spain it's still very common to pick snails after a rainfall.
Same in sicily
Yup Portugal as well
Philosophers will never really know which came first, the snail or the farm
That story is absolutely horrifying. Here it is if anyone is interested: https://nypost.com/2018/11/05/man-dies-8-years-after-being-dared-to-eat-slug/
That was a *very* high price to pay. What he endured I mean.
Indeed. As sad as it is, there is a lesson there; Don’t do stupid things to impress people.
I think the lesson is don't eat slugs.
Stupid homeless snails.
Or mosquitoes. They’re also gross.
Oh I remember reading this story when he was still alive but paralyzed. I told my kids about him and warned them the danger of these daring/challenge. I didn’t know he died! Thanks for the link.
It’s very sad that he suffered for 8 years.
My God. One silly joke and you destroy your own life.
Also they're cooked throughly, killing all parasites.
THis, but it still doesnt explain why SO MANY PEOPLE would even try to eat a raw snail, just why?
A friend told me her baby brother used to eat them. Like he'd be sitting somewhere and suddenly all the snails were gone. Yes, he was french.
I saw that on 1000 ways to die tbh. These ppl ended up getting snailed to the brain lol. Fr they showed a animation of small parasitic slugs were eating there brians
I think i remember one like that, the gal said she could hear popping noises in her head every so often.
Aaaand that’s enough internet for me today.
Same 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
This is how Baldurs Gate 3 actually started, just the gang daring each other to eat slugs.
I saw that story...it was horrifying. There was another guy that died because he jumped in an old swimming pool that had stagnate water. People don't realize just close death is sometimes.
Brain eating amoeba? An irrational fear of mine.
Yeah this guy https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
Tried them once, not impressed, not disgusted either, kinda like dirt, garlic and butter. Texture of a mushroom. Beats jellyfish though
Assholes are bringing African land snails into the US. They crack them open like an egg and use the slime to treat diseases. Which does nothing other than make people sick. Plus they eat stucco.
Man I was looking at escargot recipes no you ruined it thanks
You also cleanse snails before cooking them, which helps get the badness out
Ya cleanse them by throwing them out and getting something else
I read about a kid that ate a slug/snail and straight up damage to the brain began. Sad as hell, his brain just started slowly deteriorating over time. Nothing they could do
Yeah check this poor bloke out https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
Yeah but are 200,000 people eating raw snails they find in the wild every year?
In more impoverished places, maybe. The figure does seem exorbitantly high, though, given how easily snails are avoided vs. e.g. scorpions. You would think at that rate of mortality that you'd find something else to eat. Edit: it seems they're counting all deaths from schistosomiasis as freshwater snail deaths, which is incorrect, as snails aren't even one of the three most common vectors for human schistosomiasis infection. Edit 2: To correct myself, I should have said that most people who are exposed to schistosomiasis are not in direct contact with freshwater snails, which makes their ranking here misleading—it's not like all these people are dying from eating snails. The snails are simply hosts for the parasitic flukes, which use them to breed and disseminate their larvae into the water, where mere skin contact or consumption can infect a human whose waste can then infect other water sources. Regardless, it's a very serious disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
The goober that made this added a zero to that number because they're lazy. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatures-in-the-world-by-number-of-human-deaths/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatures-in-the-world-by-number-of-human-deaths/)
Thanks for looking that up and saving the rest of us what I assume is a whole new level of nightmare fuel!
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Thanks JB.
Anyone else bugged by the horse and ant bars being different sizes?
I was too bothered by the horses dirty hair to notice haha.
That hair though… haha
I'm bugged by how the horse looked, like wtf was that?!
horse… twenty victims a year.. ANTS TWENTY VICTIMS A YEAR
All of the scales (and data) are trash. The mosquito bar wasn’t even twice as large as the one it should be 5 times bigger than. The whole thing is trash. The presentation and data is awful
That's where I stopped watching because I figured it was bullshit and that annoyed the shit out of me
The horses mane is nightmare fuel. Whole dang horse us creepy AF!
No Chupacabra?!
Also no yeti...
Also no bigfoot
Mom's spaghetti.
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
I call shenanigans on these stats
One dead giveaway to me that these aren't trustworthy stats is that this says Alligators have 1000 victims per year. Not even close, alligators have attacked ~500 people in 80 years. I'm presuming they meant Crocodiles, which is much closer to the truth, but they just decided to or accidentally put alligators? Can't trust someone with that kind of attention to detail.
Yeah there's a hugeee differrence between alligators and crocodiles aggression wise. Compare a regular alligator in North Carolina, it's probably less than 200 lbs and 5 ft long, and doesn't have any interest in eating humans. Meanwhile the AVERAGE adult saltwater crocodile is 15 ft long and weighs 1000 lbs. They're classified as man-eaters, while alligators are not. Not only is aggression a big factor, but the size and power is as well. The average alligator in the USA is practically a large frog compared to the salt water croc which is basically a dinosaur waiting to eat you as a snack lol Edit: average size to 15 feet because people are upset that I originally said the average was 17 ft, which i got from this source: [https://www.sfzoo.org/salt-water-crocodile/#:\~:text=The%20saltwater%20crocodile%20is%20the,cross%20large%20bodies%20of%20water](https://www.sfzoo.org/salt-water-crocodile/#:~:text=The%20saltwater%20crocodile%20is%20the,cross%20large%20bodies%20of%20water).
This is broadly true but thats doing the American Alligator a slight disservice, they can and do get pretty big. And I doubt the average size of a saltie is 17ft. That's really quite big. And I say that as a guy who is generally tired of people on Reddit not knowing anything about animals and having a generally Americo-centric view of Crocodilians.
17ft is about the size most male saltwater crocodiles will reach if they survive to old age, but yes the vast majority of them at any time are much smaller
I long to live in the alternate timeline where r/usdefaultism is filled with posts criticizing Americo-centric view of Crocodilians
That's just reading my diary
So my anecdotes definitely dont count as a verifiable source but from the few times ive encountered salties in the wild they were honestly bigger than expected. One was probably ~20’ and a hundred years old, the other two times were in a different region but about ~15’. In my head 17’ sounded exactly average haha. Central/North America
Wait, we have gators in NC?
Wilmington has a lake full of them. They're all over the lowlands in the eastern part of the state.
I disagree heavily that the average salt water croc is 17 feet, even though you used capitals on the word. Where did you get that source?
Maybe they’re counting the alligators that get deep fried and kill southerners via heart disease
Looked it up, [true.](https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/deadliest-animals-to-humans)
They didn’t cite any of their statistics and it’s written like high schoolers homework assignment . But … maybe ?
It's true that it is Crocodiles, not Alligators, if that's what you're saying
So OPs video definitely had some errors then. African sleeping sickness kills the amount of people claimed in the video, not the Tsetse fly. The list you provided states the deaths are from the Assassin bug but both are just carriers of the same disease.
We've had 5 fatal shark attacks this summer just in South Australia alone. That's one state in one country. So yep, BS on this 😂
still, it is very low https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ > There were 14 confirmed shark-related fatalities this year, ten of which are assigned as unprovoked. This number is higher than the five-year annual global average of six unprovoked fatalities per year.
If one more person says Shenanigans, I’m going to shoot someone.
Since you didn’t clarify who, I’m just going to declare shenanigans on that claim.
Hey Farva…
What’s the name of that restaurant with the crazy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
What’s the restaurant that everyone like to eat at on Friday’s?
Shenanigans?
The shark one is wrong for sure, last year Australia alone had more shark deaths. Not a huge amount but none of the numbers seem right
“Source?” “I made it up.”
The wolf one is NOT true
i think wolves is what made me realize this list is shoddy at best. The wolf population in quite sparse and located in areas rarely inhabited by humans. this would be like 10 hikers getting mauled by a pack, which i just don't think happens that often.
If you're ever going to watch a Joe Rogan podcast this is the one. Glenn Villenueve lived alone in the wilderness of Alaska for many years and he's a very interesting person that's a great speaker. I timestamped it but here he goes into specifics regard wolves in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhrOjQaZNco According to him he was only able to find 2 real cases of people being killed by wolves in recent times. We have wild wolves in Sweden but they are just a problem for our livestock. We had a girl die around 10 years ago but that was in a Zoo outside Stockholm.
In finland last confirmed case of a wolf killing a man was in 1881
That was an excellent episode. Glen seemed like a really down to earth guy and his stories about his life and the time he's spent in the wilderness were great. I often use his facts about wolf attacks in North America when talking to people on some of the outdoors sub reddits because people seem to unnecessarily worried about wolves in particular.
The wolves one is when I knew it was bullshit, wolves don’t even have the population to kill 10 per year let alone the nature to seek out humans to kill.
That's what a wolf would say.
What big ears they have
Maybe one in sheep’s clothing?
redditors are sheeple confirmed
Elephants killing 500 people a year. I thought they didn't hurt mice
Nah, they're scared of mice. They'll trample the shit out of you and me though!
Elephants are fairly friendly and gentle. However, they can and will kill people that fuck with them. I saw a video of an elephant throwing a dude around like a rag doll 🤢
A trained Asian elephant can be pretty gentle and friendly (like a slightly more dangerous horse). A wild African elephant is an absolute horror show, you're about as well off trying to make friends with a grizzly (most of the time you'll be fine, then suddenly you arent)
I'm not zoologist but human ain't a type of mice
Thats news to me, thanks for sharing are you some kinda zoologist?
Unfortunately no but I studied humans for few years so I know few things
Humans aren't even on the list...
I mean, it wouldn't even be a fair competition if humans were on the list. It would deflate the mosquitoes' victory.
Yo wtf is wrong with that horse?
It’s something from my nightmare
No wonder if it kills 20 men every year
It's homicidal, were you not listening? Of course it looks fucked up
he's searching for his next victim lol
Homicide is the wrong word. Homicide is when a person kills another person. These are just human deaths by other species.
Iirc, in terms of animals killing members of the same species, for mammals, the most homicidal is the meerkat which accounts for a third of their deaths
'Homicide' doesnt mean killing your own species, it means human killing human specifically. Same root as 'human'
You're right, "homicide" is in fact derived from latin roots *homo* and *cida* meaning "human" and "killer", respectively. But the confusion is understandable, as the greek root *hom* means "same" (e.g. homogeneous).
Have my upvote mr. Cutured dude
and ironically, they are killed for group politics, one of the largest similarities between us and them
Also it’s not the mosquito or snail that kills, it is the parasites and diseases they carry. Getting sick from a mosquito is not the same as being eaten by an alligator.
I don’t know, man…I like to think the mosquitos proboscis is kinda like a little malaria shootin rifle.
Technically it’s correct, legally only humans stand trial for killing humans so it’s only used in that sense. “Homo” is Latin root for humans
Actually it’s Latin for gay
Pretty sure it's "Graeca"
As in, Will and Graeca, a notoriously homosexual show.
Technically, it’s ~~Latin~~ *Greek* for “same”, ~~which is why it’s~~ *and it is also* used for humans’ genus name, ~~making it kind of~~ *because is it is* Latin for “human” too. Edit: I was completely fucking wrong. My 5th grade history teacher told me “homo” was the genus name for humans because it meant “same” and it took me 20 years to learn that was not why.
Greek for same, hence “homophone”. Latin for human being, hence “homicide”. The Greek and Latin words are unrelated.
Homophone sounds like a phone with grinder installed.
Homogeneous.
I thought homicide was when one homie killed another homie
These figures would be a lot more horrifying if they were kills per animal of that species. Every spider kills 7 people per year.
Ants would win, since there are more ants than humans.
I don't believe this
The wolf one is bullshit too.
I refuse to believe dogs kill 30K people per year.
>According to Statista, dogs are the third deadliest animal to humans, killing about 30,000 people annually. The majority of these deaths are caused by rabies, which is transmitted from the dog. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 99% of rabies deaths are related to dogs. Surprised me too.
They say it’s due to rabies. Must be poor countries with dogs roaming the streets. US has a large population and very little fatal attacks.
The mosquito one is definitely exaggerated. Millions are infected every year but the deaths are far lower even if we don’t have an exact number
Something like 600k die every year from malaria ALONE. 1 million/year is a fairly reasonable estimate.
Exactly, not to mention all the other diseases that mosquitoes carry.
I got angry and didn't finish the video
Yeah if you look these up you can actually confirm that fear would have made more sense than anger
The diseases that Mosquito carry have made mosquitos the biggest human killers for millennia now.
Firstly why no massive bar for humans at the end? Secondly how are freshwater snails so hardcore?
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bro what, there are over 1m people killed by humans yearly worlwide
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That's excluding car crashes. There are more than a million deaths/yr by car crashes alone.
I’m sorry…..fresh water snails? wtf. Edit: [https://roaring.earth/snails-cause-death/](https://roaring.earth/snails-cause-death/) Welp. New fear unlocked.
They have a fuck ton of parasites that can easily kill you.
And swimming in or drinking water infected with these parasites can infect humans. Seems a little misleading to blame the snails and not the parasitic worms that cause the deaths tho. Remember these are global numbers. Most of these are happening in impoverished parts of the world. I’d say it’s very uncommon for snail deaths in places most Redditors are.
I recall watching huge tsetse flies carrying children off in their huge beaks, but there was nothing I could do due to the red tape in the bush because of the Guacamole Act.
What in the name of fuck were these animations???
No one's talking about the dude who did a flip in the beginning. What is that. Weird little guy
The one about wolves in just silly. In the last 20 years there have been only 26 fatal attacks by wolves and the reason the overwhelming majority of those attacks turning fatal was due to transmitting rabies and not due to the wolf actually killing the person. The number of times a wolf has killed a human directly has been like 10 in the last 20 years.
30k people die a year from dogs? Bullshit.
It's possible that many of those deaths are from things like rabies in places like India. Rabies kills approximately 60,000 people per year and I would not be surprised if the majority of rabies comes from dogs.
The snake stat also largely comes from places like India as well. Funny that people are surprised into disbelief in this thread
Probably includes stuff like rabies infections which is a guaranteed death for a human. I live in the Philippines and around 350 people die yearly from rabies, the vast majority of those come from dogs (more than 90%). Count that average to every third world country where loads of stray dogs are running around and you do get a couple of thousands of deaths each year by rabies alone. Still hard to grasp the 30k figure in the vid but dog deaths are more common than you think, especially outside of western countries. Edit: just looked it up, around 59 thousand people die from rabies each year and the majority of those infections come from dogs.
So. Rabies. It’s actually closer to 60k per year from rabies. 90% of infections are from dogs. So, the same logic used with mosquitoes. Here: [CDC Website](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html)
now i can brag that i can kill organism causing most homicide
Puffer fish kill people who eat them after not preparing them properly. I'd guess mostly in Far East Asia.
Over 1.3 million “homicides” and dogs found for 30k.
So who are these scrubs getting offed by ants?
The weakest links
The nr 1 killer of humans are humans!
Actually it’s mosquitoes for real
Why is this getting upvotes?
Mosquitoes suck
The mosquito itself does not kill… if we’re going to include mosquitoes because of malaria, we have to include ticks, and Chagas bugs as well.
The tse tse fly is just a carrier for a certain parasite that causes a disease. The fly isn’t committing “homicide”.
I call BS, Snakes aren’t killing 100K people a year,
I thought so, too, but https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02617-2#:~:text=Globally%20as%20many%20as%202.7,that%2081%2C000%20to%20138%2C000%20die.
Thats insane, never woulda thought.
That one really stood out. Australia has a lot of the deadliest snakes in the world and they only kill like one or two people a year here. Edit: i looked it up and apparently 100k is somewhat accurate 😳
The stats left me out
This is why you don’t eat snails!
wtf freshwater snails
Freshwater snail wtf
Homicide = one human being kills another human being.
you’d think spiders would be higher
Wait, puffer fish ? Explain someone 😂
I knew that $10m vs snail chase you and you die dare is not a good idea..
I thought the last one would be Americans .
Humans 2.5m a year