25 Seemingly harmless cows are responsible for the deaths of about 25 humans The other way around the number is 300 million 5 15 Even when adding up the victims of all shark species the number is rather small 100 A look at their teeth reveals that it s best to stay clear of hippopotamuses Even more dangerous by the way are elephants 500 deaths WATCH WHOM YOU TRUST A green anaconda is able to grow to a length of up to nine meters 30 feet and may weigh up to 200 kilo grams 441 pounds by some accounts Accordingly these huge reptiles are somewhat sluggish on land but fatally fast in water They re also able to dive for up to ten minutes without breathing The most awesome snake in the world feeds on tapirs amphibians fish and cai mans in other words anything that gets in front of the sit and wait predator s mouth And why bite a chunk off your prey if you re able to open your jaws at a 180 degree angle and devour a 50 kilogram 110 pound pig in one piece So all in all a green anaconda is not the kind of creature you d normally like to meet while taking a swim Unless you re Franco Banfi For the world famous under water photographer such encounters are like hitting a jackpot Fear That s not part of the vocabulary of the Swiss who also gets close to sharks crocodiles and wal ruses I don t feel that these animals are generally dan gerous For me the real challenge is to be able to quickly read their behavior because you don t get many chances to shoot an exciting picture in fact you normally just get one Baiting them with food is not a good idea though because you never know how they ll react In spite of his fearless nature there s one animal that even Banfi stays clear of the hippopotamus For good reason as the info graphic below shows 10 000 people are killed by sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly The utopian thinker sees the paradise the realist sees the paradise plus the snake Friedrich Hebbel 1813 1863 German poet and dramatist DANGEROUS CREATURES AREN T NECESSARILY PREDATORS Ø annual number of human deaths 6 7

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