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10. Swans                                            Swans are the floating asses of the bird world. Though they certainly look majestic when they’re floating casually along a river or lake, like a rubber duck made of silk and swag, swans are without a doubt some of the most vicious animals one could have the misfortune to encounter. It’s an oft-repeated fact that a swan is easily capable of breaking a man’s arm; this is, for the most part, a myth. What a swan is capable of though, is straight-up drowning someone. Which is what happened to one poor guy in England when he was knocked out of his canoe and stopped from swimming to shore by a mute swan. It was noted by swan experts (yes, those exist) that this was presumably due to the swan in question being territorial. It was also noted that this was an incredibly rare occurrence and that for the most part, swans will only ...

10>Apache trout:                                  The state fish of Arizona, the apache trout is a critically endangered freshwater fish in the salmon family. Reaching up to 61 cm (24 inches) in length and weighing up to 2.7 kg (6 pounds), it is native to the upper Salt River watershed (Black and White rivers) and the upper Little Colorado River watershed. 9> Island fox:                                                        Also known as coast fox or short-tailed fox, the island fox is a small fox native to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. There are six subspecies of the fox, each unique to the island it lives on, reflecting its evolutionary history. Weighing between...

10>Boxer:               Though not typically aggressive by nature, they are listed in our 10 most dangerous dogs breed list due to 48 negative incidents involving the breed from 1982 to 2012. Originally from Germany where they can grow from 50 to 70 lbs, their bright, playful and energetic personalities are countered by their ‘headstrong’ characteristic. 9>Wolf Hybrid:                                       As the name implies, the Wolf Hybrid also known as the Wolf dog is a cross breed between a dog and a wolf (typically a grey wolf). Consequently, Wolf-dog hybrids are a mixture of genetic traits resulting in less predictable behavior patterns compared to either the wolf or dog. 8> Chow Chow:                                           ...

10 Flores Giant Rat Humans are easily frightened by the tiniest animals: Cockroaches, spiders, and mice seem specifically designed to scare the bejeezus out of us. Some grown men would even prefer to wrestle a bear or take on a pack of coyotes than let a mouse run up the leg of their pants. These men should probably avoid the island of Flores, Indonesia. It’s home to the Flores Giant Rat, which has the single virtue of being too large to fit up your pants leg. This isn’t the kind of rodent to be restrained by mouse traps: its body can reach 45 centimeters (18 in) in length, and that’s before you add its 75-centimeter (30 in) tail. Then the rat  can exceed 1.2 meters  (4 ft). This really is the stuff of nightmares, but at least most of us are physically big enough to fight off a giant rat.  Unfortunately, the rats wouldn’t have been so easy to shrug off for our ancestors:  Homo floresiensis , who shared Flores Island with them around  12,000 years ago ....

10. All Spiders Spin Webs The whole  web thing  is one of these spider facts that we take for granted, such as their having 8 legs and eating  flies . Surprisingly, only half of spiders actually catch prey using webs. Others prefer to actively hunt, such as wolf spiders, who stalk prey like other members of the animal kingdom. Then there are examples such as the trapdoor spider, which builds a trap door, under which it hides until it senses vibrations of approaching prey, at which point it will spring out and attack. Other spiders don’t spin webs, but will shoot either at their prey or into the air, and let the wind carry it until it catches something. We most likely assume all spiders spin webs since it’s more common to walk into a web than to come across a spider that tries to catch you by shooting a web at you. Unless you’re the Green Goblin. 9. There Are Spiders In Your Hair This one is not so popular these days, although it is still often believed. It was...