This is a cool infographic. Like most such graphics, it raises lots of questions. In addition to Nathan's question about the wide error margin, I wonder:
- Why isn't the tiger on this list? They appear to kill more people per year than lions.
- It's a little weird to compare animals that directly kill humans with animals that are vectors for diseases that kill humans. Should tuberculosis be on the list? That apparently kills 2 million people a year.
- What is the deadliness by rate of exposure? That is, what proportion of mosquito-human interactions result in human deaths? I expect the proportion of tiger-human interactions that result in human deaths to be quite a bit higher.
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