Let's settle this! Africa's most dangerous?

[steve white]

Unwounded:
Elephant tuskless/cow
Elephant bull P.A.C especially(cropping)...GUARANTEED!
Wounded :
Buffalo -lion and leopard(inside bait too!) same but for different reason...
Hippo close to the water and croc in the water inside your boat while u are washing your hands inside water..!
Bushbuck...!, sable... ,greysbok...
Hyena if u are sleeping i the bush!
Baboon to the camp...(not dangerous but problem animal)
Puff adder while u are walking in the bush without legs protections
Black mamba in your lodge ...!better forget if I could...
Spitting cobra without eye glass...
Mosquitos ,violin spider ,ticks ,bees .black fly for luck of everybody...!

Grysbok?!!! (Yes, I was charged by a "bull" grysbok...)

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Grysbok?!!! (Yes, I was charged by a "bull" grysbok...)

Yeah, those ankle wounds from an enraged bull grysbok can be lethal!

Funny ;-)

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Had an encounter with a bull buffalo who was mortally injured from a snare. The 5 Ugandan Special forces men and the game ranger would not get off the truck! The PH (who barely survived a buffalo that disemboweled him and killed his hunter just 8 weeks previously) and I stalked up on to the seriously ill bull who was free from the snare that was still deeply imbedded into his neck. He had a young bull with him who was a little more timid and eventually moved off but the wounded bull still was ready for a fight. 4 shots from a pair of double rifles and a finisher into the spine he was done!
No one was happy but it turned out well and no one was hurt! I think for good reason my PH was more timid than I was given what he had experienced just 8 weeks prior. Pays to have a really good PH who will encourage his hunter to not get closer than 40y, when the hunter always says “when I’m close enough to smell his breath I’m close enough to kill him” it was actually a good lesson for me.

Injured (snared) buffalo are no joke. The property owners of the ranch where I spent my first week in Zimbabwe told me that about three weeks before I arrived told me about an incident that happened three weeks before I arrived. One of their workers was out to work on a fence and surprised a bull that had stepped in a wire snare. The buffalo gored the workman through the stomach and threw him. The poor guy pulled himself together, walked back to the house, told them what happened, then died. You can't help but think about these things when you're looking to shoot a buffalo.

 

[Miletic]

Because of the way it is hunted, hunting a tusked elephant cow is the most dangerous.
I have never hunted, but told me hunter to whome i trust

 

[Ontario Hunter]

None of above. My vote goes to African tick and it's symbiotic parasite.

It may not kill you - just makes you feel like you died. This was 2022 and I still have a deep hole on the back of my leg. Good thing it didn't bite me on the nose!

 

[farmer_john]

None of above. My vote goes to African tick and it's symbiotic parasite.
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It may not kill you - just makes you feel like you died. This was 2022 and I still have a deep hole on the back of my leg. Good thing it didn't bite me on the nose!

 

[steve white]

Also maybe the ANC?

 

[widetrackjack]

Complacency is the most dangerous thing in Africa!

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[mark-hunter]

Interesting how DG hazard depends on perspective.

Armed hunters picking the fight with DG is one thing. (above poll)
Local livelihoods and interaction with mega fauna brings another view.

As per human wildlife conflict reports in rural Zimababwe, crocodile is top apex predator on humans, Elephant ranks second, still very high.
Full investigative report was posted here on forum, few days ago.

 

[farmer_john]

Interesting how DG hazard depends on perspective.

Armed hunters picking the fight with DG is one thing. (above poll)
Local livelihoods and interaction with mega fauna brings another view.

As per human wildlife conflict reports in rural Zimababwe, crocodile is top apex predator on humans, Elephant ranks second, still very high.
Full investigative report was posted here on forum, few days ago.

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Maybe dont swim in the rivers...lol

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Interesting how DG hazard depends on perspective.

Armed hunters picking the fight with DG is one thing. (above poll)
Local livelihoods and interaction with mega fauna brings another view.

As per human wildlife conflict reports in rural Zimababwe, crocodile is top apex predator on humans, Elephant ranks second, still very high.
Full investigative report was posted here on forum, few days ago.

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Interesting that leopard didn't make the list.

 

[coreydb]

Any of those on the list; especially if they're wounded or mad.

 

[mark-hunter]

Interesting that leopard didn't make the list.

African leopard rarely kills people unprovoked.

During the hunt:
If leopard mauling happens during the hunt by wounded or provoked leopard, in most cases the wounds are cured by antibiotics.
Infection in the past was main cause of human death in such cases.

On the contrary, Indian leopard kills people, unprovoked. Man eaters.

 

[Rubberhead]

History says the mosquito.

 

[mark-hunter]

Maybe dont swim in the rivers...lol

Mostly women who go to water to take water for domestic use. Daily life. No running water in many villages.

 

[farmer_john]

Mostly women who go to water to take water for domestic use. Daily life. No running water in many villages.

Bet when a hippo charges it becomes running water.

Jokes aside I know.
But I also dont have much sympathy for people who refuse to improve their existence.

 

[steve white]

Bet when a hippo charges it becomes running water.

Jokes aside I know.
But I also dont have much sympathy for people who refuse to improve their existence.

If they were totally improving their existence, how much truly wild would be left....

 

[farmer_john]

If they were totally improving their existence, how much truly wild would be left....

Lol fair point. But running waters not a hard one to do. Rest of the worlds managed that for last 6000 years.

 

[mark-hunter]

It is not so easy.

From AI:

Global Population Without Running Water

• 2.1 to 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed drinking water, which is defined as having an improved water source on the premises (running water at home), available when needed, and free from contamination.
• 4.4 billion people may actually lack safe household drinking water, according to a recent 2024 study in Science, suggesting earlier UN estimates significantly undercounted the problem by not fully accounting for fecal contamination and local availability.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Lol fair point. But running waters not a hard one to do. Rest of the worlds managed that for last 6000 years.

What history books have you been reading? Even in Britain during the relatively recent Industrial Revolution essentially every household disposed of their excrement via chamber pots tossed in the gutter. The only homes with running water were the ultra rich who could afford the manpower or steam pumps to refill cisterns in the upper levels. Read up on Dr Snow's discovery of the cause of London's cholera epidemics via his "ghost map" research which revealed the source to be contaminated public water pumps. This was also the era when Thomas Crapper re-invented and popularized the "water closet" flushing toilet ... which required it's cistern to be filled manually. Yes, in the old days water might run artificially to a community (e.g. Roman aqueducts) but rarely to one's house, let alone inside it.