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[–] 44 points 5 months ago (10 children)

You got me in the first half, ngl

But either way, comparing absolute numbers can be misleading. How many monkeys live on this planet and how many bananas? Think about it.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    That's a good point! I also want to know how they calculated that humans ate only 6 monkeys in 2025...

    This is deeper than it might seem!

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I think someone pulled those numbers out of a dark orifice. 74 million bananas seems laughably low. A quick research yielded about 9*10^11 (nine hundred billion) bananas being consumed world wide per year. I got that number by dividing the 109 million tons of bananas that were consumed world wide in 2022[1] with the 120g average weight of a banana[2].

    I don't think it's possible to get reliable numbers for monkeys consumed as bush meat. However, in 2012 there was an estimate of 3000 gorillas being killed as food each year in Cameroon alone[3]. So it's probably safe to assume that the number for monkeys is much higher.

    [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/banana-consumption-by-country [2] https://www.scaleforgram.com/blog/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh [3] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/african-monkey-meat-that-could-be-behind-the-next-hiv-7786152.html

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I thought nine HUNDRED BILLION BANANAS is FUCKING INSANE but actually that's about 1/3rd a banana a day, which is how my coworker always ate them. I'd say "hey, are you gonna finish your banana," and he'd say "yeah, tomorrow."

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