The Grissly Bear is generally regarded as the fiercest of all bears, but in 1963, the North American Bear was credited with attacking and killing four people. The Alaskan blueberry crop that year (upon which the bears traditionally feed) was unusually poor.
Crocodiles kill an estimated 2,000 people per year, and are considered the greatest consumer of human meat on earth. As an example, during WWII, in the year 1945, a thousand or more Japanese infantrymen were caught and confined by the British in the swamps near the Bay of Bengal.The bleeding of the injured men drew the crocodiles local to the area, and in the night, the British heard horrible screams from the Japanese. By morning, only twenty Japanese soldiers were left alive.
Lions do not typically seek humans out for food, although there are exceptions, In the year 1943, one lone lion attacked and killed forty people in the Kasama District of what we now call Zambia.
In the 8 year span between the years of 1903 and 1911, a tiger in the Himalyan region of Nepal killed a confirmed 438 people. Tiger attacks upon humans are generally considered rare, unless the tiger is infirm or has become used to the taste of humans.
Eighteen of the over two hundred species of shark found around the world are a threat to human beings. The most feared are the great white, the mako shark, the tiger and the hammerhead. Stretched between the years of 1670 and 2003 (according to the Florida Museum of Natural History) 833 confirmed attacks have occurred by sharks upon human beings, 52 of which caused death.
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