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Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans and domestic animals

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

jmclnx wrote: post #3

To me, it is insects. And maybe their close relatives in the oceans and lakes.

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.

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Post by andreofthecape »

jmclnx wrote: post #3

To me, it is insects. And maybe their close relatives in the oceans and lakes.

I did a nature guiding course a long time ago, and according to that the biomass of termites in the Kruger National Park exceeds the elephant population there.

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Post by bryanlarsen »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #5
jmclnx wrote: post #3

To me, it is insects. And maybe their close relatives in the oceans and lakes.

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.

Insects outweigh us 17 to 1.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al...

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