What animals are silent killers?

Snakes and spiders seem to compete for fear in humans. Both have species that bite and inject a deadly venom. And both are silent killers.
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What are the most silent animals?

A fish is the quietest animal in the world. Other quiet animals are: owls, sloths, octopuses, beavers or house cats.
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What animal looks innocent but is deadly?

Panda Bears

These fluffy black and white bears are one of the most adorable mammals. For the most part, pandas are pretty easy going and just eat bamboo most of the day, however, if they feel threatened they can be extremely dangerous. They can use their physical strength, strong jaws, and teeth to do a lot of damage.
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What animal is the #1 killer?

Mosquitos are by far the deadliest creature in the world when it comes to annual human deaths, causing around one million deaths per year, compared to 100,000 deaths from snakes and 250 from lions.
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What is the most brutal animal?

The Nile crocodile is the most aggressive animal in the world mostly because it considers humans a “regular part of its diet” according to a-z-animals.com. The animal can weigh up to 1,650 pounds and can be found in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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What animal Cannot be beaten?

Why tardigrades are so damn tough. It's important to note: Tardigrades are basically indestructible only when they enter a special state called cryptobiosis. In harsh environments, the animals tuck in their legs and expel all moisture from their bodies. In this state, they're called tuns.
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What animal hurts cry like humans?

For elephant calves and human infants, crying is probably more out of stress than sorrow, he told 'Discovery News'. He pointed out that scientific studies have proven that chicken, mice and rats display empathy - feeling another's pain - which is an even more complex phenomenon.
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What animal kills most people?

In terms of the number of humans killed every year, mosquitos by far hold the record, being responsible for between 725,000 and 1,000,000 deaths annually.
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What is the number 2 deadliest animal?

2. Mosquito. Clocking in at just three millimeters at their smallest, the common mosquito, even tinier than the tsetse fly, ranks as the second most dangerous animal in the world.
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What animal looks cute but is vicious?

Pufferfish

While the pufferfish might've made a cute cameo in Finding Nemo, the marine species is actually quite dangerous. If eaten, these inflatable animals are toxic—1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide, to be exact.
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What animal is pretty but deadly?

Pufferfish. Almost all pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin that is very dangerous for humans (up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide). There is enough toxin in one pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans. So of course the natural thing to do would be to risk your life to eat a bit of them, right?
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What animal Cannot feel pain?

While mammals and birds possess the prerequisite neural architecture for phenomenal consciousness, it is concluded that fish lack these essential characteristics and hence do not feel pain.
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What animal has no fear?

According to the Independent, honey badgers have been described in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most fearless animal in the world" and can even fight off much larger predators like lions and hyenas.
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What animal is the fastest killer?

Dracula ants of the species Mystrium camillae can snap their jaws together so fast, you could fit 5,000 strikes into the time it takes us to blink an eye. This means the blood-suckers wield the fastest known movement in nature, according to a study published this week in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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What animal kills the least humans?

Here are the top 10 most harmless animals in the world.
  • Llama. Llamas (Lama Glama) are related to camels. ...
  • Manatee. The manatee (Trichechus) is an herbivore that is not aggressive and doesn't prey on other species. ...
  • Red Panda. ...
  • Manta Ray. ...
  • Giant African Millipede. ...
  • Opossum. ...
  • 3. Aye-Aye. ...
  • Rabbit.
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What animal kills for revenge?

Yes, animals do practice revenge. Chimps do it, for example. Macaques do it, too, although not directly: if they cannot attack the offender because he is much stronger, they would hurt someone weaker instead, sometimes the attacker's relative.
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What animal has no enemy?

Animals with no natural predators are called apex predators, because they sit at the top (or apex) of the food chain. The list is indefinite, but it includes lions, grizzly bears, crocodiles, giant constrictor snakes, wolves, sharks, electric eels, giant jellyfish, killer whales, polar bears, and arguably, humans.
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Is there an animal that kills itself?

While it has not been proven that non-human animals do, or even can, die by suicide, many animals behave in ways that may seem suicidal. There are anecdotes of animals refusing to eat in periods of grief or stress. Some social insects have been known to defend their colony by sacrificing themselves.
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What animal Cannot cry?

'In the sense of producing emotional tears, we are the only species,' he says. All mammals make distress calls, like when an offspring is separated from its mother, but only humans cry, he says.
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What animal is most resistant to pain?

The naked mole-rat is impervious to certain kinds of pain. It's not alone
  • The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a super-social burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa. ...
  • Horseradish is among the many plant roots that contain allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), a pungent, spicy chemical that burns when eaten.
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Which animal cries like a baby?

"You're not hearing things, our resident lyrebird Echo has the AMAZING ability to replicate a variety of calls - including a baby's cry." Echo is a superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), an Australian bird named for the shape of its tail during courting, according to Britannica.
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What animal can win every fight?

The absolute unbeatable beast who took home the title for best fighter: the elephant. With a 74% win rate, it just eked out a win over the rhinoceros, who also received a 74% win rate.
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