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[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are these percentages referring to total biomass or population count?

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago

I didn't realise rhinos were so small. No wonder I never see them.

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

I just cannot imagine a functioning planet like that tbh, there's no way cattle industries are something we can keep in the world without killing ourselves slowly.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 17 points 4 days ago

birbs are only 2/3rds unreal confirmed ✅

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago

And yet cats kill billions of birds each year. Wild.

[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

by number of organisms, biomass, ~~species count~~, or something else?

edit: ok not species count because there's only one species of human

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

That YOU know of

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