The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIV

[PlutonianEmpire]

Do sporting goods stores sell stargazing equipment (such as telescopes, stargazing binoculars, and so forth) at all?

 

[Zelig]

Binoculars almost certainly, telescopes are probably iffy.

 

[Cutlass]

The biggest and most elaborate ones do. Most probably don't.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What is the most aggressive species of animal?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Drop bears.

That's really hard to measure though, I'm not sure you'll be able to find a good answer TBH.

 

[Synobun]

What is the most aggressive species of animal?

The answer to this question will very likely involve insects of some sort that thrive off of aggression, like yellow jackets, certain ants, etc. Do you mean of mammals/other large creatures or just in general?

 

[madviking]

What is the most aggressive species of animal?

Humans.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The answer to this question will very likely involve insects of some sort that thrive off of aggression, like yellow jackets, certain ants, etc. Do you mean of mammals/other large creatures or just in general?

I guess it might be better to go with larger creatures. I think it's what animal is most likely to attack and kill people.

Humans.

I don't think that answer will work.

It was something that came up while I was on holiday. I was told that the most aggressive animal is the wolf, which from everything I read seems wrong.

 

[Farm Boy]

What is the most aggressive species of animal?

Need more specifics on what you are asking for. Mosquitoes cause more deaths than any animal through disease transmission than anything else. In the US bees kill through allergic reactions than anything else. If you want a large predator killing the most people in the US it is a mountain lion(1 casualty per year on average).

Average Number of Deaths per Year in the U.S
Bee/Wasp 53
Dogs 31
Spider 6.5
Rattlesnake 5.5
Mountain lion 1
Shark 1
Alligator 0.3
Bear 0.5
Scorpion 0.5
Centipede 0.5
Elephant 0.25
Wolf 0.1
Horse 20
Bull 3

http://historylist.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/human-deaths-in-the-us-caused-by-animals/

 

[caketastydelish]

All the free ones have ads, if you won't pay the $10/yr for a proper ad-free email service, I'd opt for gmail simply because gmelius is the best for removing ads from any free service.

I use gmail (filtered with gmelius) for all my spammy online stuff, paid outlook.com for all my real life/serious/professional stuff.

My email address is adultseriousprofessional@yahoo.com. No joke. If you want proof, email that address asking who they are on civfanatics and they'll tell you caketastydelish.

 

[madviking]

I don't think that answer will work.

What other species of animal engineers famines, launches operations which kill thousands upon thousands, and designs weapons to make it easier to kill?

 

[Cutlass]

What is the most aggressive species of animal?

Wolverines or badgers are known for being aggressive to animals far bigger than they are.

 

[caketastydelish]

What is the most passive-aggressive form of animal?

 

[Synobun]

What is the most passive-aggressive form of animal?

Skunks, poisonous frogs, poisonous caterpillars?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

What is the most passive-aggressive form of animal?

I'd vote for these bastards. They are genuinely morbid.

 

[Radio Noer]

As a student, how does one study math, besides simply knowing formulas or steps in a process?

 

[madviking]

Practice problems.

 

[Ajidica]

I'd vote for these bastards. They are genuinely morbid.

As if I needed another reason to encase Australia in a glass dome to keep all of those things away from the rest of the world.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Need more specifics on what you are asking for. Mosquitoes cause more deaths than any animal through disease transmission than anything else. In the US bees kill through allergic reactions than anything else. If you want a large predator killing the most people in the US it is a mountain lion(1 casualty per year on average).

Average Number of Deaths per Year in the U.S
Bee/Wasp 53
Dogs 31
Spider 6.5
Rattlesnake 5.5
Mountain lion 1
Shark 1
Alligator 0.3
Bear 0.5
Scorpion 0.5
Centipede 0.5
Elephant 0.25
Wolf 0.1
Horse 20
Bull 3

http://historylist.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/human-deaths-in-the-us-caused-by-animals/

Those numbers are misleading in the context of aggression. How many wolf packs are you likely to run across? How many elephants? How many bee attacks are purely defensive in nature? I don't really call the numbers that you posted into question, rather I question the question itself, so to speak.

 

[Farm Boy]

Those numbers are misleading in the context of aggression. How many wolf packs are you likely to run across? How many elephants? How many bee attacks are purely defensive in nature? I don't really call the numbers that you posted into question, rather I question the question itself, so to speak.

I do too, which is why I specifically pulled out mountain lions as, I think, the most common source of intentional predation on humans in North America by an animal at ~1 per year. I don't really know about hippos or elephants in Africa/Asia/zoos/wherever. Though dogs and horses come in significantly higher than sharks/bears/mountain lions combined, so obviously we should all get rid of the wretched things.