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minus-squareKingGimpicus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down10·6 months agoSource? Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You’re telling me that there’s like 12 farm cows for every wild rat on earth? Horse. Shit.
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·6 months agoQuick Internet search… https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass They are referring to biomass. 1 cow ~ 1200 lbs / 545 kg 1 rat ~ 0.5 lbs / 0.25 kg 1 cow ~ 2400 rats by biomass
minus-squareKingGimpicus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down6·6 months agoWell thats not what the infographic says. It specifies “mammals”, not “mammals by weight”. OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales? Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·6 months ago4% includes marine mammals. Without them, land mammal biomass is just 2%.
Source?
Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You’re telling me that there’s like 12 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?
Horse. Shit.
Quick Internet search… https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
They are referring to biomass.
1 cow ~ 1200 lbs / 545 kg
1 rat ~ 0.5 lbs / 0.25 kg
1 cow ~ 2400 rats by biomass
Well thats not what the infographic says. It specifies “mammals”, not “mammals by weight”.
OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales?
Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?
4% includes marine mammals. Without them, land mammal biomass is just 2%.