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· 2 years ago
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If we only account for macro organisms that exist primarily on land, humans and livestock would be dwarfed next to insects- asides vastly outnumbering every other known terrestrial macro organism in terms of sheer numbers of different species, insects also have strength of numbers. There are estimated around 1.5 BILLION insects per every SINGLE human on earth. Ants alone are estimated as a species to contain enough carbon to outweigh humans and all other mammals in earth combined. Considering the size of the average ant that is pretty impressive. Of course, if we ONLY include mammals. Best estimates put cows at just under a billion, dogs are around the same number, and of the wild mammals it is assumed bats and rodents are most populace with an estimated 10-20 billion- but they are not accurately countable at present. Of the non mammalian livestock, chickens make up somewhere between an estimated 20-30 billion heads.
guest_
· 2 years ago
If we compare ALL livestock to humans, humans are outnumbered by livestock 6 or so times over. If we only count mammals it could be pretty close depending on what we include as livestock as chickens represent the majority of livestock animals- but if we are including non mammals, as said earlier the insects dwarf the livestock many times over.
