How many reptiles are killed every year?

Answer 1

There have only been 12 deaths caused by large constricting snakes in 40 plus years of their history in captivity here in America. The number of dog, horse, livestock, and captive deer related deaths are in the HUNDREDS YEARLY as opposed to an accumulation of deaths over a period of many years.

Answer 2

There is no way to estimate how many people have been killed by reptiles, or by most other causes of death.

Perhaps you could narrow down your criteria? Restrict it, maybe, to a particular area, or time? Also to whether the cause of death by reptile is direct (being bitten by a snake, for example) or indirect (choking on a reptile while eating it, or from being fatally injured while avoiding a reptile, for example).

Answer 3

• More than 100 million animals are reported killed by hunters each year. That number does not include the millions of animals for which kill figures are not maintained by state wildlife agencies.
• The vast majority of species that are hunted -- waterfowl, upland birds, mourning doves, squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, crows, coyotes, etc. -- provide minimal sustenance and do not require population control.
• Each year, more than 40 million animals are killed for their fur: mink, fox, bobcat, beavers, raccoon, lynx, chinchilla, coyote, fisher, marten, muskrat, opossum, otter, skunk, weasel -- the list goes on and on. Each piece of fur trim represents an animal who suffered and died; a full coat represents many animals. There is no reason to kill animals for fashion, and many reasons not to.
• Animals suffer for days in steel-jawed leg-hold traps before being killed by one of a variety of methods: standing on their chests to crush their lungs, shooting them, clubbing them, stabbing them, or by other equally cruel methods.
• Thousands of animals, referred to by the fur industry as "trash animals," are caught in traps every year, including birds, reptiles, squirrels, dogs, cats and sometimes even children.
• Ranch-raised fur-bearing animals live their entire lives in tiny wire cages where only minimal survival needs are met. Animals often become insane from lack of mental stimulation and sometimes mutilate themselves by chewing at their own paws and tails.
• Animals on fur ranches are killed by a variety of methods, including anal electrocution. A metal rod is inserted into the anus and electrified as the animal is forcibly held down.
• Cat, dog, and rabbit fur is commonly used as trim on many garments.
• It takes the following number of animals to make one 40-inch coat: 16 coyote, 18 lynx, 60 mink, 45 opossum, 20 otter, 42 red fox, 40 raccoon, 50 sable, 8 seal, 50 muskrat and 15 beaver. This doesn't count the number of trash animals also killed in the process.
• Killing methods include: Drowned in leg-hold, body-crushing trap, clubbed, suffocated, shot after being caught in leg-hold trap, hunted and shot, electrocuted (genital or ear-to-foot), neck broken, poisoned, strangled by snare, poisoned (by injection), or gassed.

Answer 4

Very few, usually only 2 or so per year for constrictors, plus a few more for the people who keep venomous snakes or zoo accidents.

Answer 5

3 or 4 a year but no person really knows