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1 – Introduction
2 – Box Jellyfish
3 – Asian Giant Hornet
4 – Bull Shark
5 – Hippo
6 – Great White Shark
7 – Stone Fish
8 – Deathstalker Scorpion
9 – Africanized Honey Bees
10 – Komodo Dragon
11 – Leopard
12 – Cone Snail
13 – Tsetse Fly
14 – Hyena
15 – Carpet Viper
16 – Blue-Ringed Octopus
17 – Saltwater Crocodile
18 – Mosquito
19 – White-Tailed Deer
20 – Piranha
21 – Tarantula Hawk Wasp
22 – African Elephant
23 – Leopard Seal
24 – Tiger Shark
25 – Tsavo Lion
26 – Black Mamba
27 – Poison Dart Frog
28 – Polar Bear
29 – Pit Bull
30 – Taipan Snake
31 – Rattlesnake
32 – Death Adder
33 – Philippine Cobra
34 – Tiger Snake
35 –Krait Snake
36 – Cassowary
37 – Eastern Brown Snake
38 – Brazilian Wandering Spider
39 – Rottweiler
40 – Fire Ants
41 – Goliath Tigerfish
42 – Portuguese Man o' War
43 – Anaconda
44 – Puss Caterpillar
45 – Wolfdog
46 – Redback Spider
47 – Cougar
48 – Bothrops Asper
49 – Wild Boar
50 – Mozambique Spitting Cobra
51 – Grizzly Bear
52 – Bullet Ant
53 – Alligator
54 – King Cobra
55 – Doberman Pinscher
56 – Brown Recluse Spider
57 – Black Caiman
58 – Rats
59 – Bengal Tiger
60 – Boomslang Snake
61 – Belcher's Sea Snake
62 – Cape Buffalo
63 – Brown Widow Spider
64 – Gaboon Viper
65 – Goonch Fish
66 – Electric Eel
67 – German Shepherd
68 – Guinea Worms
69 – Black Widow
70 – Jaguar
71 – Lonomia Obliqua Caterpillar
72 – Beaked Sea Snake
73 – Mouse Spider
74 – Sydney Funnel-Web Spider
75 – Fattail Scorpion
76 – Candiru
77 – Giant Centipedes
78 – Nile Crocodile
79 – Indian Red Scorpion
80 – Siafu Ants
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‘When Animals Attack!’ was one of the highest rated shows aired by FOX in America during the 1990s. Viewers tuned in to see bears, eagles, wolves, sharks, snakes, and even pets attack unsuspecting people who came too close. Part of the phenomenon of such programming seems to be a natural fear that we have of some animals, one so primal that even the possible presence of a potential predator far in the distance may curdle our blood at the thought of the possibility of being eaten alive, injected with a painful venom or perhaps even having a sizeable chunk bitten out of us.
Human beings have occasionally turned harmless animals into deadly weapons in the past, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, the West Bank, and Lebanon, where donkeys have been used to carry explosives, occasionally killing policemen and soldiers. In 2003, Palestinians used a donkey to carry out an unsuccessful attack near Jerusalem. PETA director Ingrid Newkirk contacted Yasser Arafat asking him to keep animals out of the fighting. Other than these largely unsuccessful efforts to use animals as weapons, humans have rarely used animals in warfare since horses were replaced with tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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Yet humans retain primal fears of wild animals that harkens back to the days when shelter could be found in caves, rather than houses and when men held only spears, rather than rifles. In some parts of Africa and South America, rural tribesmen and their families are still frequently attacked and sometimes killed by animals. Polar bears occasionally attack natives of Alaska and Canada, while Australian aborigines have been mauled by dingoes. Tourists visiting many of these untamed frontiers are in much greater danger, as some do not heed the warnings of natives or find themselves too close to a hippopotamus, rhino or lion.
While the widely known condition of ‘arachnophobia’ is a fear of spiders, ‘ophidiophobia’ is the fear of snakes. People harboring an irrational fear of dogs that can extend into adulthood may be experiencing ‘cynophobia’, which some psychologists believe may be a remnant of the fear of wolves and wild dogs. According to the Calm Clinic, “Evolutionary psychology holds that a fear of dogs evolved in humans as a survival mechanism. Learning to fear and to avoid large predators would have been of use to humans in the days when wild, dangerous and hungry animals were commonplace.”
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