Feared predator: the Great White Shark Ready to strike: Egyptian Cobra snake Not so cute: Hippopotamus in aggressive pose

The article attempts to categorize the relative dangers of different Biota to humans. While viruses are arguably not living, they are included. The danger that large animals pose is largely overestimated by humans. According to caption, originally from http://www. ... According to caption, originally from http://www. ... Egyptian Cobra, from images of Africa, free use File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Egyptian Cobra, from images of Africa, free use File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (807x591, 281 KB) Summary Subject: Hippopotamus Photographer: User:Nv8200p Date: Mid 1980s Location: San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (807x591, 281 KB) Summary Subject: Hippopotamus Photographer: User:Nv8200p Date: Mid 1980s Location: San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Empires Biota is the superdomain that categorizes life. ...

Animals that attack and eat humans

• Shark
• Crocodile
• Lion
• Tiger
• Brown Bear
• Polar Bear
• Wolf
• Hyena
• Piranha
• Komodo dragon

gay ... Genera Crocodylus Osteolaemus Tomistoma See full taxonomy. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the Panthera genus. ... Binomial name Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 Brown bear footprint The Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) is a species of bear that can reach weights of 130–700 kg (300–1500 pounds). ... Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear or northern bear, is a large bear native to the Arctic. ... Wolf Wolf Man Mount Wolf Wolf Prizes Wolf Spider Wolf 424 Wolf 359 Wolf Point Wolf-herring Frank Wolf Friedrich Wolf Friedrich August Wolf Hugo Wolf Johannes Wolf Julius Wolf Max Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf Maximilian Wolf Rudolf Wolf Thomas Wolf As Name Wolf Breidenbach Wolf Hirshorn Other The call... Genera Crocuta Hyaena Parahyaena Proteles Hyenas (or Hyænas) are moderately large terrestrial carnivores native to Africa and Asia. ... Genera Catoprion Citharinus Pristobrycon Pygocentrus Serrasalmus The piranhas or pirañas are a group of carnivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers. ... Binomial name Varanus komodoensis Ouwens, 1912 The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the largest lizard in the world, growing to an average length of 2-3 metres (10 feet) and weighing between 80 and 140 kg (175 to 310 lb). ...

Animals that that injure humans in self defense

• Cape Buffalo
• Cattle
• Hippopotamus
• Black Bear
• Cassowary
• Elephant
• Rhinoceros
• Horse
• Anaconda- maybe
• Whale- maybe

Species Syncerus caffer Subspecies Syncerus is a genus of bovines found in Africa, the only extant member of which is the African Buffalo, or Cape Buffalo. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Binomial name Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758 The Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) or Greek ίππόποταμος (hippos meaning horse and potamus meaning river) is a large, plant-eating African mammal, one of only two living and three (or four) recently extinct species in the family Hippopotamidae. ... Binomial name Ursus americanus The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus), also known as simply the black bear or cinnamon bear, is the most common bear in North America. ... Species Casuarius casuarius Casuarius unappendiculatus Casuarius bennetti Cassowaries (genus Casuarius) are very large flightless birds native to the tropical forests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of animals, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea. ... Genera Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros Coelodonta (extinct) Elasmotherium (extinct) A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the ten modern species of the genus Equus, and considered by some to be the best of all the animals. ... Species See text. ... Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ...

Venomous biting animals

Snakes

• Cobra
• Copperhead
• Coral snake
• Cottonmouth (Water moccasin)
• Rattlesnake
• Viper
• Taipan
• Brown snake
• Death adder
• Mamba

Cobra or cobra or COBRA may refer to: Cobra (snake), a venomous snake. ... In biology, a copperhead is any of four species of venomous snake: the American copperhead of eastern North America, and three species of Australian copperhead. ... Species About 65 General Information The coral snakes (Micrurus and Micruroides) are two genera of about 65 snake species, found in tropical South America and southern USA. They are venomous and related to Old World cobras, and are the most venomous snake in the New World. ... Binomial name Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède,, 1789 The Cottonmouth, or water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorous), is a venomous snake closely related to the copperhead. ... Genera Crotalus (24 species) Sistrurus (3 species) Species 27, including: - Sidewinder - Massasauga Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous New World snakes, genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, which have a small noise-making jointed rattle on their tails. ... Genera Adenorhinos Atheris Azemiops Bitis Cerastes Daboia Echis Eristicophis Macrovipera Montatheris Proatheris Pseudocerastes Vipera This page is about Viper snakes. ... This article is about the Australian snake. ... Snakes of the genus Pseudonaja, including the common or Eastern brown snake (P. textilis), the dugite (P. affinis) and the gwardar (P. nuchalis), are found throughout mainland Australia, and are now responsible for the majority of snakebite deaths in this country. ... Species Acanthophis antarcticus Acanthophis praelongus Acanthophis pyrrhus Acanthophis hawkei Acanthophis wellsei The death adders are a group of three or five species of snakes native to the Australian continent. ... Species - Eastern green mamba - Jamesons mamba - Western green mamba Mambas, of the genus Dendroaspis, are tree dwelling extremely rapidly moving snakes of Africa. ...

Spiders

• Black Widow
• Brown Recluse
• Sydney funnel-web spider

black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans), a poisonous spider that is infamous for the females habit of eating the male after sexual intercourse. ... A brown recluse spider The brown recluse spider is a venomous spider of the family Sicariidae and the genus and species Loxosceles reclusa. ... Binomial name Atrax robustus Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 The Sydney funnel-web spider, also called a funnel-web tarantula, (Atrax robustus) is regarded by some to be the most dangerous spider in the world. ...

Other

• Gila Monster (lizard)
• Blue-ringed octopus
• Scorpion

Binomial name Heloderma suspectum Cope, 1869 The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is one of the two known species of venomous lizards. ... Species Hapalochlaena fasciata Hapalochlaena lunulata Hapalochlaena maculosa Hapalochlaena nierstraszi (disputed) The blue-ringed octopuses (genus Hapalochlaena) are three or four small octopus species that live in tide pools in the Pacific, in places from Japan to Australia. ... Superfamilies Pseudochactoidea Buthoidea Chaeriloidea Chactoidea Iuroidea Scorpionoidea See the classification section for families. ...

Venomous non-biting animals

Jellyfish

• Box jellyfish

Orders see text Box jellyfish, also known as sea wasps, are creatures found in Australia and the Philippines as well as many other tropical areas, that can be extremely deadly, with venom in their tentacles. ...

Polyp

• Portuguese Man o' War

Binomial name Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758) The Portuguese Man O War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebottle, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore—a colony of four sorts of polyps. ...

Other

• Poison dart frog

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Fish

• Blowfish
• Stonefish
• Lionfish

The word Blowfish can mean: A kind of fish, also called a pufferfish. ... A stone fish (Synanceia verrucosa) is a carnivorous fish with poisonous spines that lives on the sea bed, camouflaged as a rock. ... A young lionfish in the Red Sea near Dahab A lionfish is any of several species of venomous marine fish in the genera Pterois or Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae. ...

Insects

• Bee
• Wasp
• Mosquito

Families Andrenidae Apidae Colletidae Halictidae Heterogynaidae Megachilidae Melittidae Oxaeidae Stenotritidae Bees (Apoidea superfamily) are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. ... WASP (an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) is a term that denotes the culture, customs, and heritage of the American élite Establishment. ... Genera See text. ...

Poisonous plants

• Hemlock
• Datura Stramomium (Jimsonweed)
• Deadly nightshade

Several poisonous plants in the Parsley family, Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) are called hemlock: This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Binomial name Atropa belladonna L. Deadly nightshade or belladonna (Atropa belladonna) is a well-known, hardy perennial shrub, a member of the nightshade family. ...

Poisonous fungi

• Amanita (several species of this genus)
• Galerina autumnalis

There are about 600 species of agarics in the genus Amanita (family Amanitaceae), which contains some of the most toxic known mushrooms. ... Galerina autumnalis (also known as Autumn Skullcap, or Deadly Galerina) is a poisonous mushroom found throughout America, in habitats as diverse as rain forests and suburban front lawns. ...

Worms

• Schistosoma
• Trichinella spiralis (Trichinosis)
• Cestoda (tapeworm)

A genus of trematodes, Schistosoma spp. ... Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis, is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis, commonly called the trichina worm. ... Orders Subclass Cestodaria Amphilinidea Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea Trypanorhyncha In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. ...

Protozoa

• Amoeba
• Giardia lamblia
• Plasmodium (Malaria)

Entamoeba histolytica is an anaerobic parasitic protozoan, classified as an entamoebid. ... Binomial name Giardia lamblia (Kunstler, 1882) Giardia lamblia (formerly also Lamblia intestinalis and also known as Giardia duodenalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract of humans. ... Species Plasmodium berghei Plasmodium brasilianum Plasmodium chabaudi Plasmodium cynomolgi Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium gallinaceum Plasmodium knowlesi Plasmodium lophurae Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium relictum Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium yoelii etc. ...

Bacteria

• Escherichia coli
• Shigella
• Salmonella
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Vibrio cholerae (cholera)
• Yersinia pestis (plague)

E. coli redirects here. ... Species Shigella boydii Shigella dysenteriae Shigella flexneri Shigella sonnei Shigella are Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonsporeforming rod-shaped bacteria. ... Species Salmonella bongori Salmonella choleraesuis Salmonella enterica Salmonella enteritidis Salmonella nyanza Salmonella paratyphi Salmonella typhi Salmonella typhimurium Salmonella virginia Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria that causes typhoid fever, paratyphoid and foodborne illness. ... Binomial name Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zopf, 1883 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the bacterium that causes most cases of tuberculosis. ... Binomial name Vibrio cholerae R. Koch 1883 Vibrio cholerae is a gram negative bacterium with a curved-rod shape that causes cholera in humans. ... Yersinia pestis under fluorescent staining, 2000x. ...

Viruses

• HIV/AIDS
• Influenza