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Funny and cute animals collection VI

Cute pup

Kitten

Pups

Pup

 Penguins

Grizzly bear family

The penguins

Pup in bed

Sunset and the elephants

Tiger

Birdy bird

Kitten has a nap

Funny cat

Giraffes

Let me take my lion for a walk

Leopard baby

 Bird

Leopard babies

Deadliest animals in the world

Mosquito

1. Mosquito
You are probably thinking about the itch when a mosquito bites you, but some of those very small animals are very deadly too. Two to three million people die every year of mosquitoes’ transmitted diseases and about six hundred million people annually are infected. The malaria specific mosquito carry is one of the deadliest diseases known to human beings.

African Elephant

2. African Elephant
The African elephant is the world biggest land animal. Elephants can be extremely aggressive and kill more than 500 people a year around the world. Weighting around 15 thousand pounds the elephant trample other animals like rhinos and lions and also people to death. Their tusks are very sharp and deadly too. Due to their amazing memory the elephants could be vengeful and raze whole villages to the ground during their rampage.

Blue Ringed Octopus

3. Blue Ringed Octopus
The little octopus holds enough venom to kill twenty people and there is no antidote for its poison. If a person gets bitten they will be paralyzed and unable to breathe in less than two minutes. However the person will remain conscious and even might survive if artificial respiration is done at a hospital for example. The human body itself could eventually handle the poison if the “little” breathing problem is neutralized.

Tse Tse Fly

4. Tse Tse Fly
Tse Tse Fly is a large blood sucking fly that is common for central and South Africa. It carries the African Sleeping Disease and is responsible for the death of two hundred thousand people every year. The African Sleeping Disease has two main stages. In the first one the victim experience fever, high temperature, muscle pain. The second stage is deadly and is known by the impaired sleeping cycle. The victim will experience fragmented sleep and wake periods during the day and night.

Australian Box Jellyfish

5. Australian Box Jellyfish
This Jellyfish is killing more people than other deadly animals as crocodiles and sharks. The Jellyfish could have up to sixty tentacles and each of them could be up to fifteen feet long. Each tentacle has enough venom to kill 60 human beings. Australian Box Jellyfish has been known as the “World’s most venomous animal”

Poison Dart Frog

6. Poison Dart Frog
The little colorful frog has enough venom to kill more than twenty thousand mice. The poison is actually located over the skin of the frog and will be transmitted on touch. There is enough toxin in each frog to kill ten humans.

Black Mamba

7. Black Mamba
The Black Mamba is probably the most feared animal in the world. The Mamba is very agile, quick and aggressive. The Black Mamba attacks without being provoked and is deadly. More than ten thousand humans die every year due to its attacks.

Stonefish

8. Stonefish
The Stonefish lies camouflaged on the bottom of the ocean and ambushes its unlucky prey. It is so fast and deadly that escape is impossible. To make the things worse the Stonefish is covered with venomous spines and the poison is deadly with no antidote discovered.

Animal street art in Johannesburg, South Africa


Street artist ROA created a painting featured six huge African animals on a building in Johannesburg in South Africa. The animal street art could be seen from far away – actually miles away and attract visitors and curious citizen to come closer and take pictures of the building. ROA made the incredible animal building art by using a crane and a lot of his spare time. He is getting more famous by doing animal art decorations in many other major cities across the Globe as Chicago, Zaragoza and New York.








Photos by Martha Cooper

Top 10 endangered animals


10. African elephant – only 10 000 remaining
9. Polar bear – 20 000 - 25 000 remaining
8. The bonobo monkey – between 5000 – 10 000 remaining
7. Loggerhead sea turtle – about 50 000 remaining
6. Blue whale – about 4000 remaining
5. Giant panda – 3000 – 5000 remaining
4. Sumatran orangutan monkey – 3500 remaining
3. South china tiger – already extinct in the wilderness
2. Mountain gorilla – about 700 in the wild
1. Black rhino – less than 50 in the wild