I bet we ate more than 6 though.
Gotta work those monkey stats up
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Gonzako@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
yeah, maybe 6 endangered great apes that are highly watched
Monkeys? I bet AT LEAST millions, they are common bushmeat.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Dave@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
74 million bananas a year also seems like hardly any. I’m pretty sure my kids ate a sizable portion of that number.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah. There are places where monkey meat is common. Some places eat the brains, too.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No way, every human eats like 3 monkeys while they’re asleep at night. The monkeys are chasing the spiders that we eat.
Avicenna@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Princess_Donut_The_Queen_Anne_Chonk@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
DISGUSTING, THAT MIGHT AS WELL BE CANNIBALISM
IT’D BE LIKE ME EATING BAUTISTA
OR AN AMERICAN SHORTHAIR
I’M GOING TO VOMIT CARL
FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not on m…God dammit Donut…
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
God damn it, Donut.
jojowakaki@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
*Only six that we know of. Also 6 sounds like a lowball number, given the fact there are cultures that are known to consume unconventional animals as delicacies. And the bored rich who will dish out ungodly amount of money for stupid shit, just for the sake of exclusivity.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t imagine it’s considered unconventional in places where monkeys are prevalent. Perhaps in city’s and such but rural folks with access to a large population likely wouldn’t give a rats ass what people outside their communities expect
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seventy million bananas for 8 billion people is ridiculously low, too.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a lot of radiation that humans collectively ate
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Who tf is surveiling the monkies??
darkmogool@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
we are monkeys…
dismay3915@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No way we ate only 6 monkeys. Have you been to china?
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
China is communism and we all know that noone eats unders communism
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You got me in the first half, ngl
But either way, comparing absolute numbers can be misleading. How many monkeys live on this planet and how many bananas? Think about it.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
That’s a good point! I also want to know how they calculated that humans ate only 6 monkeys in 2025…
This is deeper than it might seem!
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I think someone pulled those numbers out of a dark orifice. 74 million bananas seems laughably low. A quick research yielded about 9*10^11 (nine hundred billion) bananas being consumed world wide per year. I got that number by dividing the 109 million tons of bananas that were consumed world wide in 2022[1] with the 120g average weight of a banana[2].
I don’t think it’s possible to get reliable numbers for monkeys consumed as bush meat. However, in 2012 there was an estimate of 3000 gorillas being killed as food each year in Cameroon alone[3]. So it’s probably safe to assume that the number for monkeys is much higher.
[1] worldpopulationreview.com/…/banana-consumption-by… [2] scaleforgram.com/…/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh [3] independent.co.uk/…/african-monkey-meat-that-coul…
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Many thousands of monkeys are eaten each year in Bush meat