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10,000 feels surprisingly small to me. Not that I'm arguing with your perception, I just find it interesting. There are 195 countries, so if those species wer
by everforward 3y ago
10,000 feels surprisingly small to me. Not that I'm arguing with your perception, I just find it interesting. There are 195 countries, so if those species were evenly distributed by country there would be 51.2 bird species per country.
- Swizec 3y agoWell they did go through a severe evolutionary bottleneck with that asteroid. We almost didn’t have birds at all. I guess an interesting question is why are there so few mammalian and lizard species? Only 28 per country.