• Question: which rainforest hosts the most deadleist animal?

    Asked by theonetheonlyphyllis to Murray on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
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      Murray Collins answered on 23 Mar 2011:


      Hmm…the most deadly animal would be the one that kills the most. Whilst tigers can be potentially ferocious, there are very few left in the world because so many have been killed. Apart from cutting down the forests where they live, the main reason for their continued hunting is to supply the Chinese medicine trade.

      So, the thing that kills looooooaaaads of people in tropical areas is Malaria. So, the malaria parasite (Plasmodium) is the most dangerous animal I can think of to humans. It gets spread when people are bitten by a female Anopheles mosquito.

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