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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 12:59:49 GMT
For me it's between humans and arthropods.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 13:47:40 GMT
Off the top of my head I’d also add rats, raccoons, boars, leopards, and peregrine falcons.
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Post by Hardcastle on Jan 18, 2023 13:48:20 GMT
Ants. Then maybe mosquitoes? Not sure. Both ants and mosquitoes are in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.
When you break away from bugs...
Rats seem to beat out humans, but horrifyingly, only just ( I say horrifyingly because that's way too many humans, I'm fine with the number of rats).
I feel like there are probably interesting numbers of say pigeons or seagulls or whatever, but I dunno.
As miserable as one may think their existence is, it has to be said that cattle, sheep and chickens are insanely "successful". Chickens especially have about 33 billion individuals alive at any given time. Sheep and cattle over a billion.
Domestic dogs and cats are next, with both close to a billion. But it may come as a surprise to know that about 75% of the dogs on earth aren't even owned by a human, they are just insanely successful even as feral wild animals. 60% of cats likewise are free-ranging wild animals.
For perspective most carnivorans can't even crack 1 million, in fact most can't even crack 100 000. Lions are at about 20 000, tigers are only around 5000, but luckily (?) have many more captive specimens, about 13000. So let that sink in. A higher percentage of dogs are wild animals, than the percentage of tigers which are wild animals.
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