On: How many ants live on Earth? (2022)

[jlund-molfese]

I’ve always found it striking that livestock and humans are 96% of mammalian biomass. That’s a lot of cows! [0]

0. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

[cfj → jlund-molfese]

Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0].

[0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/

[dredmorbius → jlund-molfese]

That's a relatively recent development. Historically humans (and their livestock) were a small fraction of all terrestrial vertebrate biomass, and IIRC tipped into the majority only in the 20th century.

It does make one think of the sustainability of that situation however.

[idlewords → jlund-molfese]

Yo mama so fat...