Animals, which people wrongly fear

Man has always been dominated by stereotypes. This also applies to our younger brothers, who have experienced for themselves the full, what is human error. Here is the list of animals that are considered dangerous man completely undeserved.

Striated royal snake
Striated king snakes are harmless, but they successfully use coloring similar to that are very poisonous coral snake. The phenomenon, when in the course of evolution harmless animal becomes deadly appearance, called Batesian mimicry in honor of the 19th century English naturalist HW Bates.





Ghanaian gharial
Externally very similar to Ghanaian gavials crocodiles and alligators, but there the similarity ends. Their jaws are so small that even if they wanted to, they would not even be able to feast on human flesh. Their diet consists almost entirely of fish and frogs.



Tarantula
Tarantulas - the largest spiders in the world, with the largest tusks. But in fact, they do not care deeply for the people. Unlike many other ultra-poisonous spiders, tarantula bite for you to be even less painful than usual wasp sting.



Bat
Known for their sharp teeth and that using them at night, they drink the blood of their victims, those bloodsuckers Transylvania actually eat insects, and even some fruit. And even a real vampire, living in South America, prefer to drink the blood of goats and other livestock than your.



Giant African Millipede
Giant African Millipede is one of the largest millipedes in the world. And though you might seem that they are not averse to climb you go somewhere and eat your entrails, they are actually very friendly and are very popular as pets.



The basking shark
Despite its impressive size and weight, the relative ocean killer does not even think about how to grab your leg or other body part delicious. All the diet of this monster are small marine life, which it absorbs an incredible amount



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