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These are the world's most terrifying and deadly animals

Keep your distance
Cape buffalo
Golden poison dart frog
Box jellyfish
Hippopotamus
Moray eel
Saw-scaled viper
Pufferfish
Deathstalker scorpion
Black mamba
King cobra
Elephant
Blue-ringed octopus
Funnel-web spider
Stonefish
Lion
Nile crocodile
American alligator
Great white shark
Cone snail
Tiger
Honey badger
Fire ant
Asian giant hornet
Komodo dragon
Slow loris
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Keep your distance

Some animals are, rightly or wrongly, synonymous with being scary, like sharks, tigers and snakes. Then there are the cutest, cuddly-looking creatures harboring a deadly secret: come too close and it could be game over. These are the animals equipped with bone-crunching jaws, deadly venom or scarily sneaky tactics for trapping their prey. From highly poisonous frogs to fluffy critters that can turn terrifying when disturbed or threatened, these are some of the world’s deadliest and most dangerous animals.

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Ella Buchan

25 October 2021

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