As a general rule that’s true but useless. Humans are relatively large animals that most creatures don’t want to mess with. But a hippo for example isn’t discouraged by this.

Also the deadliest North American wildlife is the deer almost entirely because they’re jumping in front of cars.

As a general rule stray dogs and wolfs in packs will attack humans.

> Also the deadliest North American wildlife is the deer

Actually, the deadliest North American wildlife is the mosquito.

Are they particularly deadly in NA? I’m not downplaying the disease spread by mosquitoes, but I would have imagined that they’re significantly deadlier in less developed continents and that then acesss and quality of healthcare would make them less so in North America.

Depends on what you consider North America. Mexico down to Panama still have significant mosquito-borne illness and none of the access and quality of healthcare we enjoy in US/CA.

Mexico with a population of 130 Million only had 641 cases of Malaria in 2019, it’s not at great risk from mosquito-born illness. Central American countries are at a significantly higher risk, Panama for example has 4.4 million people and had 1,597 cases of malaria in 2019. Other diseases show similar trends.

Still in terms of total deaths from Mosquito born illness it’s likely lower than most assume.

Malaria was once endemic in the US, but that was a while ago, right?

Personally, I consider Mexico, Canada, and most of America as North America with the Caribbean, and Central America being separated.

I wouldn’t call Malaria etc wildlife, mosquito’s on their own are harmless.

>As a general rule, animals never attack first.

Nonsense. There is a long list of predator species that will opportunistically feed on humans.

As you yourself point out, many other animals that can't eat a human will attack if they feel threatened or competition.

Be careful around all large animals.

They big mad if you say humans are killers. The monkeys would do that to any species once threatened.

At least one animal does. Homo sapiens. We are not separate from nature, we are just a extreme of nature.

That's one interpretation of the word "animal". The use above clearly meant non-human animals.

More generally, all predators do. We aren't the relentless killing machines that cats are though.

Most humans actually don't run around attacking stuff.