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[–] 160 points 1 year ago (23 children)

I was at a trivia night and a question was, "Apart from humans, what's the two highest populated species in the animal kingdom?"

Now, I'm not the smartest brain inhabiting a future corpse, but I did do basics in school.

I say to my group, "Maybe plankton? But I don't know if there's some technicality over that being a plant or something. If I were to guess, probably ants and then flies." We agreed and went with that.

NOPE!!!

Cats and dogs apparently!!!

This didn't even make sense to us if considering just the mammals.

I protested.

The quiz master said "The question is about the animal kingdom."

"Well, if insects aren't animals, what are they?"

He dug in his heels, we weren't getting the points. And to make things even more bizarre, most other teams said cats and/or dogs to get 1 or 2 points.

We found a new trivia night.

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Also isn't there like 12 bazillion chickens per person? No fucking way could it be cats/dogs.

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  • [+] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    26 billion chickens globally, apparently.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    That's a lot less than I expected.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    We probably churn through that amount every six months 🫤 But would they even still exist without us? The existential crisis of the chicken.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Fucker crosses the road gets made kebab.

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  • [–] 53 points 11 months ago

    The most annoying part of that is that cats and dogs both eat meat! He thinks there are more cats and dogs than the chickens and cows (etc) we feed them? What demented food web did they teach him in elementary school biology?

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Cats and dogs aren't even species; they're vague categories. I tried to find the actual answer to this question, but trying to nail down individual species is proving impossible. Every source is like "copepods" or "ants" like that isn't incredibly broad. ChatGPT says it's the Antarctic krill with 5x10^14 individuals. Going from there, the WWF says there's over 7x10^14 , and Wikipedia only says they're one of the most abundant species. I'm not going to get an answer to this question, and I'm going to be mildly annoyed about it infrequently for the rest of time.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Krill were my first choice, squids might be up there too, but the word ‘species’ instead of a more broad taxonomic term is a special limit.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    There might be the nuance that there are many species of ants and flies, though still idk if any one of them outdoes humans, their pets and chickens.

    Wikipedia's page on biomass says that ants can compete with humans in global biomass (though the estimates vary wildly), but there are 15700 species of ants.

    Antarctic krill is the safest bet with shittons of them in just one species.

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