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Your guide to Earth’s top 30 deadliest animals

13. Elephants

If Dumbo hadn’t been a Disney film, we probably would have seen Dumbo’s mom, Mrs. Jumbo, kill the people teasing her baby. Elephants kill about 500 people per year, but the attacks are actually becoming more common. Their habitat is shrinking and so they’re forced to be around humans more often.

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Some researchers think elephants are killing people because they have a form of PTSD and remember that humans killed their family. The aggression is being passed between family members, so people are turning to unconventional methods to keep wild elephants away. They’ve used chili powder and domestic elephants to deter the large animals from coming too close.