Turns out I live in the safest continent except for Oz!
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiolog...l.pbio.3001946
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Your chances of being eaten, and by what
Turns out I live in the safest continent except for Oz!
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiolog...l.pbio.3001946
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Re: Your chances of being eaten, and by what
No data for Oz.
Must be the odd croc around.
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Locally our hazards are Deer, Squirrels and Wild Turkeys. Of course, if you stray near the shore the Lobsters may drag you in and eat you. They eat everything and each other.
Amateur wood butcher
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Those are all mammals. No reptiles (alligators, crocs, large snakes) or fish (sharks) were listed. Alligators and sharks account for a person now and then in the U.S.
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Insects would be far worse...
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How many deaths from coyotes each year in the US? 1?
pinko commie tree hugger
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about forty deaths by domesticated dog per year in the united states
mostly children and elderly people
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Trying to be reasonable
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Large mostly-hairless primates are the really dangerous ones.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for nature cannot be fooled."
Richard Feynman
obnoxiously persistent.
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Close to100%, unless cremated.
Worms, maggots, fungi and bacteria.
I'd much rather lay in my bunk all freakin day lookin at Youtube videos .
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The figure for OZ are limited by their truth .
No large mammals but just about everything else on land wants to kill you with poison.
Just an amateur bodging away..
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We are all eventually eaten by worms.
Kevin
There are two kinds of boaters: those who have run aground, and those who lie about it.
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https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/think-...eave-it-alone/
Leave it alone!
Skip
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Old Guy
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Coyotes? That's a surprise.
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The big surprise to me is the high odds of being mauled by a brown bear in Europe. I didn't think there were enough of them left, even in the east.
Old Guy
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I'm also surprised by the danger of black bears compared to brown bears.
"Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world." - Bono
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Old Grey Inquisitive One
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They forgot to mention worms.
It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Trying to be reasonable
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Lots more of them, and a lot nearer to where people usually hang out. Coyotes surprised me too; I've never heard of anyone attacked by a coyote. OTOH, the stats are for all injuries, not just fatal ones.Originally Posted by CWSmith
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for nature cannot be fooled."
Richard Feynman
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About the only thing to worry about around here. quite a few cottonmouths/water moccasins around but even if they killed you, they couldn't eat you. There have been some black bears reintroduced along the Mississippi River, but there is not much chance of running across one. If you were dead in a body of water, turtles would probably eat the soft parts after you rotted enough to soften up some.
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Coyotes like children.
Recalcitrant Heretic
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What, no fungi and microbes?
If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
Tom
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It’ll be coyotes and fire ants for me. Hopefully after I’m gone.
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The study is about starting to be eaten while still alive. Though I suppose some fungi can do that too.
Recalcitrant Heretic
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Considering that we're all our own ecosystems of such things, it's rather mutual and ongoing I'd have thought.
Eventually, the wee things get us all, eh? They play the long game.
If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
can eat fifty eggs
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somebody cribbed the idea for this paper from a junior high science fair.
i read the abstract. the criteria, methodology, and stated purpose add up to not much of use.
Can't remember
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Using pie graphs is inspired.
can eat fifty eggs
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pie i have eaten
pie i have not eaten
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No pythons?
can eat fifty eggs
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this entire "study" might have been done using wikipedia articles.
"dude, the science fair is tomorrow!"
"no worries, bro, i'll make some graphs."
pinko commie tree hugger
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chatgpt
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Recalcitrant Heretic
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thons of them.
If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
Rocketman
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3.1415926....?
Sleep with one eye open.
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One of "those" maps. NZ has been eaten entirely by a cartographer - one of the most dangerous species known to our nation.
Pete
The Ignore feature, lowering blood pressure since 1862. Ahhhhhhh.
Observer
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Exactly.
I prefer maneaters. They only come out at night. Sometimes only feeding on one 's wallet; sometimes just eating your heart while you lay dying.
Without friends none of this is possible.
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I expect many of us have aged enough to develop a 'special power'.
We're invisible to youngish women.
There's a lot of things they didn't tell me when I signed on with this outfit....
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My best chance to be killed and eaten near my home is from a black bear, followed by a cougar, which is an animal that Michigan DNR refuses to acknowledge as present in Northern Lower Michigan, even though there have been many sightings in the past several years…
Jeff C
Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed…
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