The most annoying part of that is that cats and dogs both eat meat! He thinks there are more cats and dogs than the chickens and cows (etc) we feed them? What demented food web did they teach him in elementary school biology?
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saltesc@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I was at a trivia night and a question was, “Apart from humans, what’s the two highest populated species in the animal kingdom?”
Now, I’m not the smartest brain inhabiting a future corpse, but I did do basics in school.
I say to my group, “Maybe plankton? But I don’t know if there’s some technicality over that being a plant or something. If I were to guess, probably ants and then flies.” We agreed and went with that.
NOPE!!!
Cats and dogs apparently!!!
This didn’t even make sense to us if considering just the mammals.
I protested.
The quiz master said “The question is about the animal kingdom.”
“Well, if insects aren’t animals, what are they?”
He dug in his heels, we weren’t getting the points. And to make things even more bizarre, most other teams said cats and/or dogs to get 1 or 2 points.
We found a new trivia night.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
stray@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Cats and dogs aren’t even species; they’re vague categories. I tried to find the actual answer to this question, but trying to nail down individual species is proving impossible. Every source is like “copepods” or “ants” like that isn’t incredibly broad. ChatGPT says it’s the Antarctic krill with 5x10^14 individuals. Going from there, the WWF says there’s over 7x10^14, and Wikipedia only says they’re one of the most abundant species, but not the most. I’m not going to get an answer to this question, and I’m going to be mildly annoyed about it infrequently for the rest of time.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I would have guessed ants, but I think they’re just in the top 10? I wonder if humans are even in the top 1000, lol.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
“What animal breathes through its butt”
I answered sea cucumber. They wanted sea turtle. But we complained and they accepted our answer too :)
yakko@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Arson out of the question due to rain?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 hours ago
Also isn’t there like 12 bazillion chickens per person? No fucking way could it be cats/dogs.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Rats? They are millions and millions of them. They breed rapidly.
saltesc@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, we had originally thought mice until our brains went exoskeleton.