Although mortality rate among humans is mostly dictated by its own kind, but it doesn’t assure anyone from dying outside of the statistics. For the truth of the matter is, even the most gruesome and cruel death can not only be achieved by someone with a gun or a knife, but with claws and fangs as well.

The world is not only beset with human killers but of animals also, animals capable of inducing a truly inescapable death. Here are top 5 in the list of the deadliest animals in the world in ascending order; 5th being the deadliest:

1. Jellyfish
   Over 100 deaths per year

   Jellyfish is one of the most deadly human killing animals in the world. They are known implementers of subtle death. For this entry the box jellyfish of the Australian coastlines provides an example of a seemingly harmless, free-swimming killer. This animal holds no prisoner when they feel threatened making swimmers that pass by unsafe from their fatal stings. Once one of their tentacles comes in contact with the flesh, all hell breaks loose. Toxins literally burn the skin causing inconsiderable pain. Eventually it will induce respiratory difficulty then cardiac arrest.

2. Hippopotamus
   Over 200 deaths per year

   Not the dancing ones you see in Disney channel. These creatures of sheer force do actually live in swamps and plains of Africa. These ill-tempered creatures will stop at nothing to become dangerously violent when it comes to protecting their young. There’s literally no stopping a hippo. If you’re thinking about running away from the brutes of death, think again. A hippopotamus can run faster than humans despite its massive physique. When the time comes it outruns and catches you, it will snap you like a dry twig.

3. Crocodiles
   Reaching almost 2000 deaths per year

   It doesn’t require much scrutiny to know how deadly this prehistoric creature can be. Mostly living in the southern U.S. Tropics, Africa, Asia and Australia, these vile creatures love the taste of human flesh and all other unsuspecting meat-full animals that come by. Crocodiles can deliver the most violent human fatalities. Its mouth clamps down on its prey with a force of 5,000 pounds per square inch-it would almost definitely feel like getting run-over by a truck with jagged-edges. Later on it will drag you into the watery graves of the swamp or river. You’re lucky if you drown before knowing what ripped you apart.

4. Snakes
   100,000 above fatalities every year

   These deadly cold blooded creatures seem to have infested all known and unknown habitations of man. It even seems that the farther you get away from home the deadlier they get. These fatal crawlies lurk in all of the continents in the world. All it would take you is to provoke it a little and it can kill you in cold blood. The bite alone is not the best of the bad things that could happen. What takes place after should be where hell rises. Some of the deadliest variations of snakes can cause death in minutes, and can create neurological and muscular carnage ranging from paralysis to sever vomiting. If they don’t get you with that, don’t put them short in being able to crush you to death (boa constrictors) or swallowing you after clumping your ribcage (pythons).

5. Mosquitoes
   2 million to 3 million deaths per year

   Surprised to know the deadliest animal in the world? Well don’t be. This tiny, seemingly insignificant creature packs-up more than just a bite. It is a vessel to the deadliest wide-spreading transmutable diseases of the world. The deadliness of a mosquito isn’t of course from its bite but from the transfusion of diseases afterward. Fever, nausea, enlarged to organ hemorrhages; a host of problems sign up and ultimately reduce you into your death bed.