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They're talking about total mass. So I think insects and whatever is in the ocean would probably be in very last place. According to them, it's white-tailed d
by VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
They're talking about total mass. So I think insects and whatever is in the ocean would probably be in very last place. According to them, it's white-tailed deer.
> The heavyweight champion is that furtive denizen of parks, meadows, and forests throughout the Americas, the white-tailed deer. It accounts for almost 10% of the total biomass of wild land mammals.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoInsects outweigh us 17 to 1. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/all-life-on-earth-chart-weight-plants-animals-pnas https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al...
- NineStarPoint 4y agoTruth of it’s the opposite. Even now general estimates put insect and fish biomass at significantly eclipsing mammal biomass. Insects might be small, but there are so many of them that it doesn’t matter.
- garborg 4y agoIndeed. Insects, then fish, then everything else, per https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000th-earths-biomass-180969141/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000...
- krisoft 4y ago> Insects, then fish, then everything else, That is not how I read your source. It seems to be plants, then bacteria, then everything else.
- pfdietz 4y agoThere's a species of small fish in the deep ocean that may have as many as a quadrillion individuals.
- goatlover 4y agoThe ocean has a far greater area than the land, and life there has been around much longer. Why would you think it would be in last place?