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Re:Most Life on Earth Is Dormant, After Pulling an 'Emergenc... by HPsquared on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:08AM (#40595202)
It depends how you count it, whether you include plants etc. Humans are only 0.01% of all biomass, but humans and livestock completely dominate the "mammals" category.

Funnily enough, the livestock population weighs about twice as much as the human population.

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Re:Most Life on Earth Is Dormant, After Pulling an 'Emergenc... by adrian_b on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:36AM (#40596667)
Humans and livestock completely dominate not only the "mammals" category, but the entire "terrestrial vertebrates" category.

There are only a few other terrestrial animals of comparable biomass with humans, e.g. ants and termites.

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