This is a list of organisms that are dangerous to humans. They are dangerous because:
- they have instinctively aggressive behavior
- humans themselves are in their diet.
- they are poisonous to humans.
For convenience, "organisms" includes viruses, in addition to animals, plants and others.
Animals edit
Attacking Animals edit
Animals that have been known to attack and eat humans edit
Insects edit
Fish edit
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Reptiles edit
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Mammals edit
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Animals that have been known to injure/kill humans in self defense edit
Invertebrates edit
Fish edit
Reptiles edit
Birds edit
Mammals edit
Venomous Animals edit
Venomous non-biting animals edit
Invertebrates edit
- Box Jellyfish [7]
- Portuguese Man Of War
- Irukandji jellyfish
- Lion's mane jellyfish
- Scorpion
- Cone snail
Amphibians edit
Fish edit
Birds edit
Mammals edit
Venomous biting animals edit
Reptiles edit
- Brown Snake
- Cobra
- Copperhead
- Coral snake
- Cottonmouth
- Death Adder
- Mamba
- Rattlesnake
- Taipan
- Viper
- Gila Monster
Invertebrates edit
- Centipede
- Flea
- Black Widow Spider
- Brown Recluse
- Hobo Spider
- Caterpillar
- Jumping Spider
- Funnel-Web Spider
- Brazilian Spider
- Scorpion
- Wolf spider
- Blue-Ringed Octopus
Mammals edit
Parasites edit
Plants edit
Poisonous plants edit
Fungi edit
Poisonous fungi edit
Protozoa edit
Bacteria edit
- Escherichia Coli
- Shigella
- Salmonella
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium tetani
- Bacillus anthracis
- Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Vibrio Cholerae
- Yersinia Pestis
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
- Actinomyces israelii
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bordetella pertussis
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Borrelia recurrentis
- Brucella melitensis
- Brucella abortus
- Brucella suis
- Brucella canis[8]
Viruses edit
Footnotes edit
- ^ The Rock python has only one attack, on a child
- ^ See [[1]] for topics or [[2]] for daily articles on this subject. [citation needed]
- ^ A Chimpanzee named Frodo killed and ate a toddler. Other predatory attacks on children had been reported before. [citation needed]
- ^ There was a case of a Chow Chow killing and eating a man [citation needed]
- ^ "Is the fear of wolves justified? A Fennoscandian perspective" (PDF). Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
- ^ See [[3]] for topics or [[4]] for daily articles on this subject. [citation needed]
- ^ Box jellyfish attacks especially involve Chironex fleckeri
- ^ http://130.54.99.137/alphabetlist-e.html
See also edit
External links edit
Category:Human-animal interaction
Category:Biology lists
Category:Lists of animals
Category:Lists of plants