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It depends how you count it, whether you include plants etc. Humans are only 0.01% of all biomass, but humans and livestock completely dominate the "mammals" ca
by HPsquared 2y ago
It depends how you count it, whether you include plants etc. Humans are only 0.01% of all biomass, but humans and livestock completely dominate the "mammals" category.
Funnily enough, the livestock population weighs about twice as much as the human population.
- adrian_b 2y agoHumans and livestock completely dominate not only the "mammals" category, but the entire "terrestrial vertebrates" category. There are only a few other terrestrial animals of comparable biomass with humans, e.g. ants and termites.