Deer (in the U.S.) are more dangerous than snakes...interesting statistic

[Bogertophis]

"Forget sharks and bears – it’s deer that you should worry about hurting you" By Forrest Brown, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/travel/deer-deadly-vehicles-collision/index.html




Mostly this article is not about snakes, but I thought this mention was interesting to share with snake-fearing acquaintances: (excerpt)

Even people who realize how common deer-vehicle collisions are might be surprised at these startling stats for the United States from this November 2022 study in the journal Cell Biology:
• Around 2.1 million deer-vehicle collisions occur annually.
• The collisions cause more than $10 billion in economic losses annually.
• Each year, they account for some 59,000 human injuries and 440 human deaths.

Kip Adams, chief conservation officer with the National Deer Association, notes that deer are much more deadly to Americans each year than those scary movie and TV threats – sharks, alligators, bears and venomous snakes – combined. (For instance, there were just two deaths in the United States by shark attack in 2023.)
Looks like we should be much more wary of Bambi than of Jaws.