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> Although elephants are very intelligent, we're the smarter than them and outnumber them and all other animals by a large margin. We are out-numbered by many
by miles 7y ago
> Although elephants are very intelligent, we're the smarter than them and outnumber them and all other animals by a large margin.
We are out-numbered by many orders of magnitude by a number of different animals:
Which life form dominates Earth? http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150211-whats-the-most-dominant-life-form http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150211-whats-the-most-domin...
This strange, glowing fish is more abundant than rats, chickens, and humans combined https://www.businessinsider.com/bristlemouth-fish-is-the-most-abundant-vertebrate-on-earth-2015-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/bristlemouth-fish-is-the-mos...
Along With Humans, Who Else Is In The 7 Billion Club? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141946751/along-with-humans-who-else-is-in-the-7-billion-club https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141946751...
- chubot 7y agoYes I definitely see that point of view. Being smart is a special case of being adaptable, but many other organisms thrive by being well adapted in their niche. On the other hand, Sapiens has a good quote about there being 2 (at least ?) orders of magnitude more domesticated dogs than wolves in the world. Ditto for pigs and wild hogs, or cattle and comparable wild herbivores. It has many other pretty shocking statistics about large cats, elephants, etc. The world today is simply much more suited to a dog's way of being than a wolves'. To put it more starkly, wolves will likely be extinct long before dogs are, because of their different relationship to humans. But of course ants and other species don't compete for the same resources as humans, and are complementary many ways.
- cultofmetatron 7y agoaurochs are extinct
- stjohnswarts 7y agoI think anyone reading that would assume he meant large animals.