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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by VWWHFSfQ on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:37AM (#34969135)
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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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:59AM (#34969331)
Insects outweigh us 17 to 1.

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

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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by NineStarPoint on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:05AM (#34969397)
Truth of it’s the opposite. Even now general estimates put insect and fish biomass at significantly eclipsing mammal biomass. Insects might be small, but there are so many of them that it doesn’t matter.
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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by pfdietz on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:40AM (#34969758)
There's a species of small fish in the deep ocean that may have as many as a quadrillion individuals.
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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by garborg on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:13AM (#34969480)
Indeed. Insects, then fish, then everything else, per https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000...
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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by krisoft on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:19AM (#34969545)
> Insects, then fish, then everything else,

That is not how I read your source. It seems to be plants, then bacteria, then everything else.

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Re:Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans an... by goatlover on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:40AM (#34969762)
The ocean has a far greater area than the land, and life there has been around much longer. Why would you think it would be in last place?
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