Why do some countries have super deadly animals while others dont?
In: Biology
Dangerous animals are fairly equally distributed.
You get some issues where in isolated places like Madagascar or Australia evolution takes some slightly different routes, but generally danger is something you get everywhere.
You might think that tropical places are more likely to harbor dangerous animals than cold ones, but as dangerous predators go you can’t really beat the polar bear on land or the orca in the sea and they are fine in the cold.
However humans tend to not play well with other animals. They hunt for food or to get rid of dangerous predators and destroy habitats to make room for agriculture.
Europe used to have cave-bears and lions and wolves (oh-my!) but once civilization got started there in earnest those went away.
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