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The title comparison is entirely meaningless. They arbitrarily chose a 1 year period. If they chose 1 month, they wouldn't be eating as much. If they chose 100
by averagewall 10y ago
The title comparison is entirely meaningless. They arbitrarily chose a 1 year period. If they chose 1 month, they wouldn't be eating as much. If they chose 100 years, plenty of other animals would do the same. For any carnivore, you can make the same claim by choosing a suitable time period.
- trattsvamp 10y agoI think you misinterpreted the title and probably didn't even read the article? The spiders each as much animal food as humans regardless of time period. > Their conclusion was that there are 25m tonnes of spiders around the world and that, collectively, these arachnids consume between 400m and 800m tonnes of animal prey every year. This puts spiders in the same predatory league as humans as a species, and whales as a group. Each of these consumes, on an annual basis, in the region of 400m tonnes of other animals.