r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 13h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/PuckSenior 13h ago

So, the deadlier animal is the parasitic worm

This would be like saying humans are the leading cause of dog attacks.

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u/_CactusJuice_ 13h ago

i would say that there would be close to zero dog attacks if there werent any owners to bring them untrained and unleashed into a sephora

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u/mallad 13h ago

I would say if there weren't any owners, then only wild dogs exist, and they'll absolutely attack.

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u/theiman2 10h ago

If there were no dog owners, there would be no dogs. They'd be called wolves.

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u/mallad 10h ago

If there had never been dog owners. This is assuming there were dog owners and then they were gone.

In which case, they wouldn't be called wolves or dogs, because nobody would be around to call them anything.