Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] UK lions, etc
From: pswango at att.net (pswango@att.net)
Date: Thu Jul 7 20:57:50 2005
 
There was recently an article in the local paper (Albuquerque) about wild 
animals and humans.  Here are some of the reported frequencies of attack, 
according to a 2002 report by a wildlife group.  (These are for North 
America):

Wolves: 30 attacks and 2 deaths in 100 years
Black bears: 25 attacks annually; 1 death every 3 yrs
Domestic dog: 1 million bites/yr; 16-18 deaths result
Mountain lion:  43 attacks and 8 deaths from 1981-2000
Venomous snakes: 8,000 bites in the US annually; ~ 10 deaths (I read this 
somewhere else)

and most dangerous of all:

Deer: 200 deaths and 26,000 injuries annually from collisions

(Albuquerque Journal, July 5, 2005)