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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass] 4% includes marine mammals. Without them, land mammals biomass is just 2%.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would the infographic be by number?
  (I’m not dissing you, I only ask bcs I never even thought about it begin my population, like, what would it compare by population in such a vast group as mammals.)

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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Okay, so you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm. How many mammals are in the pen?

    This survey would answer that the pen is 90% cow and 10% rat, therefore there are 9 times as many cows as there are rats.

    In reality land, where the rest of us live, would say that there are 241 mammals in the pen and only 1 of them is a cow.

    You see why I’m calling bullshit by the way this is worded?

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, I see now, thx.

      For me (how I perceived the simplified pic) the main difference was that I didn’t think ‘in a pen on a farm’ but on a planet.

      you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm

      Do you not think the farmer saying he has 241 animals would be made fun of?

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m basically saying that you can see from the context (the numbers) that it’s biomass, a la:

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