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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dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 6 days agofun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 5 days ago
Brandonazz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Actually very interesting, I wonder if this ratio holds up throughout history.
Lyrl@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Isn’t like more than half that number diseases like malaria spread through mosquitoes
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, the numbers are different everywhere, but mosquitoes cause at least 50% of that million.
Botunda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Fun Fact: I found the hunter
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 days ago
Next fun fact: Its more likely to get killed by a coconut dropping onto your head than to die in a shark attack.
barf@vegantheoryclub.org 5 days ago
Wow that’s 0.0000003% as much, which is conveniently exactly the same ratio as my balls to your mom.
o1011o@lemmy.world 5 days 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.