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I voted human...it's pretty obvious why...

Human

In today's society, it's in our nature to be destructive to both the environment and one another and consume all resources possible, while it is endangering the other remaining species listed. Not to mention with the consumption of forests and the ever-longing quest for petroleum, natural gas, and minerals, we kill off at least two of the other listed species. Then we kill off the last specie by dumping waste and spilling petroleum and petroleum distillates into the oceans.

Bees aren't as dangerous as wasps. A bee will sting you when you irritate or bother it. A wasp will irritate you, you will shoo it away and then it will return and sting you. Also, bees die after they sting. Wasps can go on stinging you until someone swats them.

Bears could prove dangerous.. I mean, there's no escape from a bear. If you provoke it, or enter its territory then think about it.. if it wants to attack you it will attack you. A bear can run, swim, climb, dig.. so, that's no hiding up a tree, no diving into a lake, no hiding underneath something.. eek.. scary.

Shark is very...very...

Might just be me, but this topic would be more interesting if humans weren't included, as human is a dum-dum answer. It is the most obvious. However, if you fit another predatory animal into the human slot, this topic would be more uh...diverse?

Human, we've done so much damage that you can see the ozone hole in Alaska, the polar north, places at the top of the world. In second, would be snakes, you can find them in both water and land.

Humans aren't most dangerous per se. It's the only animal you could try and reason with.

Not exactly true. You can reason with any of the above (theoretically with the shark too although I have a hard time imagining that). Wolves don't hunt people (unless in extreme circumstances), and why would tigers regularly (well food I guess). But out of all the choices, every animal except the human has a good reason to be dangerous. Food, survival, safety, offspring - survival of the fittest. The human posesses danger that she/he sometimes does not know how to use. Reason leaves once it is in action against the rest of the choices in so many cases - fun, sport, cruelty, etc.

To be able to pick correctly however, I take that this means which one of the choices is most dangerous to the earth (the other point of view being most dangerous to the human), although I guess both things link very much. We could call the lives and actions of wolves, tigers, and sharks a "traditional economy" - a way of life and choices that has kept the same identity for centuries and centuries. Humans however, have made more drastic changes. This wouldn't be that harmful if these changes didn't lead to destruction. Pollution, extinction, construction and destruction of natural habitats, etc etc etc, all come from human wants and needs. Therefore I would pick the human as the most dangerous.

Then again, isn't evolution natural? This means that the danger of humans is a natural cycle of the earth. There has been a pattern of extinction, for example the dinosaurs. Someone mentioned them, but then there would be no place for humans. Imagine the primitive human against an organized pack of raptors. We'd be the ones gone extinct. Either way, the danger from our side seems natural at the same time.

But then again, there can always be mistakes.

Humans hands down, dangerous to ourselves, the earth and its wildlife

True but scientist in today's ecoonomy are worried about loosing them. We are taking notice that every 5 out of 10 bees aren't coming back to the hives when they leave. It is being cause by cell phone transmition so they can't find anything to pollinate. Without any pollin then their will be land slides, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other disasters more often.

There hasen't been consistent and totally valid evidence that cell phone transmition is the cause. However it makes sense that it could in some way, combined with other factors, affect smaller organisms like bees.

True, natural disasters may increase in frequency but most importantly- without pollin plants would stop reproducing, fruit wouldn't grow: affecting the whole cycle of life - no fruit will eventually get its way to the top of the food chain, and wherever the human may be (I consider them at the top currently) will lead to their destruction.

Most sharks do not mean it when they attack humans. Take Great Whites for example. They are seen as deadly man-eaters, which, like wolves, is simply not true. More often than not, they mistake a human swimmer for prey, such as a seal. Once they realise their mistake, they often spit them back out.