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Hey wait - if whales are also in this category (eating kind of a lot of animal mass), but have a relatively low population (compared to humans and spiders)... w

• delhanty 10y ago
  Surely it means that humans and (baleen) whales will increasingly be competitors for food such as krill? https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/biomass-and-energy-transfer-to-baleen-whales-in-the-south-atlantic-sector-of-the-southern-ocean(c1a55335-dc3d-4ba4-8984-19125d6e7511).html https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/bio... > Abstract ... Although this only represents 4–6% of the estimated krill biomass in the region (and probably less than this percentage of the total annual krill production), the depleted numbers of baleen whales resulting from past or current whaling activities should be taken into account when setting quotas for the commercial exploitation of krill if there is to be a recovery to pre-exploitation biomass levels of baleen whales.