dangerous animals

[abbie10]

Wot is the most dangerous/fatal animal in the world?

[divegirl]

Man

[lankeela]

Yep I'd agree with that!

[Lonnie]

And running a close second, I reckon, would be the bug that gives us Flu.

[mandimoo]

actually (she said officiously), i think youll find its the mosquito. ;o)

[drestie]

Dangerous to who/what?

[wolf63]

man

a black cat on a dark landing when on way to toilet at night

polar bear - no facial expression so no idea of 'mood'

man

[abbie10]

to humans or other animals

[divegirl]

That'll still be man then!

[keys]

I would say a snake

[RATTER15]

Mosquito has killed more humans than anything else due to it spreading diseases.

[Jenny Tools]

Disgruntled wife

[CrazyWolfman]

Actually the mosquito doesn't cause malaria, it's merely the vector for an internal parasite called plasmodium which does cause it. Unfortunately this isn't part of the animal kingdom so it has to be disqualified. Instead it's a protozoa and a member of the kingdom, protoctusta (or protista if you prefer). The unfluenza virus also isn't an animal as it is part of protoctista too.

Personally I recon it really depends on which perspective you're coming from, if you mean the most dangerous or fatal animal to humans then it's almost certainly other humans. If you are refering to non-human animals then it's more ambiguous 'cos you could either be referring to it's potential to do damage (in which case it's probably something small and highly venemous), or if you're talking about which one actually causes the most human deaths then at least for north america it's the deer, thanks to numerous road accidents in which, ironically, the humans actually run into them.

[CrazyWolfman]

Sorry, that's protoctista. Slight spelling error...

[RATTER15]

Well Crazy wolfman, I think we are splitting hairs a bit here!! If a mosquito carries a deadly virus, that makes the mosquito pretty dangerous in my books!!