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Your guide to Earth’s top 30 deadliest animals

14. Kudu

Similar to how deer kill people, drivers in Africa sometimes die from colliding with the greater kudu antelope. While exact numbers are hard to find for how many people kudu kill, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported that, at least in Namibia, it’s more than crocodiles kill.

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Of course, the kudu usually die in this encounter, too. So they don’t get anything out of this meeting. Part of the problem is that kudu actually thrive in human populated areas, because they like abandoned fields and pastures. And also like deer, kudu are hunted for their meat.