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aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.

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  • barf@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wow that’s 0.0000003% as much, which is conveniently exactly the same ratio as my balls to your mom.

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    • o1011o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s also accounted for almost 100% by mosquitos, specifically the diseases they carry…so not really the mosquitos at all. Quick searching shows snakes following mosquitos with 100,000 deaths caused per year. In any case, the scale is prodigiously unbalanced. Human animals kill trillions of non-human animals, almost entirely for their own pleasure. Non-human animals kill a few hundred thousand human animals (or a bit over a million if you count mosquito-borne disease) in self defense or by accident.

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Weird mathematical fact about that,

    That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.

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    • Brandonazz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Actually very interesting, I wonder if this ratio holds up throughout history.

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    • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t like more than half that number diseases like malaria spread through mosquitoes

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, the numbers are different everywhere, but mosquitoes cause at least 50% of that million.

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  • Botunda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fun Fact: I found the hunter

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Next fun fact: Its more likely to get killed by a coconut dropping onto your head than to die in a shark attack.

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• huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does it include bugs? I can’t imagine we kill more fish than bugs

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  • NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shrimp, lobsters, and crabs are kinds of bugs.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Arthropods, not bugs.

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      • NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Does “bugs” have a scientific meaning? I was assuming it was a layman’s term that I could abuse.

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      weird how people will eat lobsters and crabs, but won’t eat grasshoppers and ants.

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      • NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not sure what your definition of people is, but Mexicans, Ugandan, and Koreans all eat grasshoppers (and probably others). I know crickets are eaten in Southeast Asia.

        Ants seem too tiny to try to eat, but a Google search reveals they are eaten in South America and Southeast Asia.

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