Though chubby and adorable as a plush toy, hippos are aggressive and territorial creatures who are built like tanks and don’t take any nonsense.
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Mosquitoes are hardy monsters that are difficult to see, capable of traveling long distances, able to lay their eggs just about anywhere, and deadly invasive.
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Each golf-ball sized blue ringed carries enough venom to drop more than two dozen people by paralyzing them.
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The Tsetse carries loads of Trypanosomes, which are parasites that cause brain inflammation, loss of motor skills, and eventually death.
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Many different varieties of Box Jellyfish exist, all of which are nasty beasts that bear the distinction of being the single most venomous creature in the world.
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Though snakes in general should be avoided, since many of them carry various levels of venom, the Mamba is a particularly nasty customer.
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There’s a shocking number of dangerous snails in the world, with this being the king daddy murderer of them all.
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Also known as the kissing bug because it bites on the face, Assassins carry Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that takes out thousands of people each year.
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The glands that produce the poison rest under their skin, meaning an accidental touch on their back can cause sickness or death.
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Surprisingly fast on land, intensely deadly, smart and wily, and even quicker in the water, these great white beauties are serious predators.
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Called “Black Death” for a reason, these buffalo are sweet and docile so long as they are left to their own devices.
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A slithering creature that causes death by infection of ascariasis, roundworms like to make their home in the small intestine through ingestion of their larva.
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Siafu ants are known as “driver” ants because massive swarms of 50 million will act as a single mind, using the will of a single driver to guide their actions.
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Subtle, lazy hunters that lounge around in the water, Crocs have the natural ability to blend into the environment and clamp down on unsuspecting prey with swift and deadly acuity
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Cute and cuddly in appearance, a little puncture from their puffed-out spines is enough to paralyze you for the remainder of your very short life.
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Small and vicious, they blend into their surroundings surprisingly well, and have a bite/sting first approach to life that usually means you’re dead before you know one’s around.
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The Wandering Spider is a little more of a hassle, because it meanders around rather than knitting a web and then staying there.
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Subtle as an average rock, yet able to move with lightning speed when annoyed.
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Causing more deaths than every other animal combined, nothing is more hazardous to your well-being than these oddly-shaped bipeds.
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