The World’s Deadliest Animals: Tsetse Fly

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The World’s Deadliest Animals: Tsetse Fly

Located primarily in Africa, tsetse flies are bloodsucking flies made deadly due to their incredible capacity to transmit disease. When making contact with people, the tsetse flies primarily transmit the sleeping disease; for animals, it’s animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana.

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Though they look similar to other fly species, tsetse flies differentiate themselves by surviving solely upon the blood of other mammals. Tsetse flies have a life span of one to three months, and suck blood daily–usually during peak warm hours–to stay alive. Fossils of the fly have been found in the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado, leading researchers to believe that in addition to being quite dangerous, they are also extremely old.

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