4 ms·
Latest estimates I recall are that humans and our livestock together comprise over 90% of the total mass of land animals globally. All wild animals together are
by snowwrestler 2y ago
Latest estimates I recall are that humans and our livestock together comprise over 90% of the total mass of land animals globally. All wild animals together are less than 10%.
The mental picture of a wild Earth on which humans live is now outdated. The Earth has become a human place, with essentially some open-air zoos containing the few wild animals we have chosen to not kill.
- gus_massa 2y agoxkcd 1338: Land Mammals https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://explainxkcd.com/1338/ https://explainxkcd.com/1338/
- 0xcafecafe 2y agoBacteria still outweigh us a thousand to one and that's not counting those already in our bodies is a great alt-text as well.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoBacteria aren't really animals though.
- gus_massa 2y agoI remember a joke posted in a old thread here. Paraphrasing: > Eukaryotes are the method that Prokaryotes use for space travel.
- Brybry 2y agoLand insects/terrestrial arthropods might match that https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-combined-weight-insects-arthropods.html https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-combined-weight-insects... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9897674/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9897674/
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- lalalandland 2y agoInsects comprise a total weight to about 1 billion tons.(1) Which is roughly the same as the weight of all people and farm animals on Earth combined. (1) https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-730523 https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...