Ants, no question.
“Fun” fact: The biomass of all the ants in the world is greater than the biomass of all warm blooded (endothermic) animals combined.
Here’s an excellent video where a VFX artist uses CGI tools to visualize what said biomass would look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoMww9x378
You can go to 6:20 if you don’t care about the methodology used to calculate the mass and just wanna see the ant tidal wave moneyshot.
I read a while ago that humans probably have ants out-chonked since some time ago when we started gaining weight as a population.
Had to check back on this since that little factoid has stuck with me since reading it.
Per this journal from 2022, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201550119
Integrating data from all continents and major biomes, we conservatively estimate 20 × 1015 (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals and equals 20% of human biomass.
Because if there’s anything worth getting scientific about, it’s us vs the ant horde.
Absolutely ants. The sheer volume of every ant in the world working together would be horrifying
That working together part adds so much to the ants’ advantage. Even if the ants’ entire strategy was “bite lions, no bite ants” they’d absolutely win
Your scale is off; imagine an Olympic sized swimming pool filled with ants with a lion in there somewhere.
Now imagine 39,000 of those pools, each with its own lion and ants.
Looked to see if there was a visual representation of the number of ants in the world and found this
So yeah, would say they’d be covered tail to nose.
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There are an estimated twenty quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000) ants in the world. They could wipe out all terrestrial life on earth if they wanted.
Edit: if you see a still image, you may need to click on the gif for it to play.
Fire ants aren’t fire proof, they can just bite you so hard it feels like you’ve been burned.
Ants easily, there are literally so fucking many. Like there are some singular species of ants that I think could did it alone
What are the lions even gonna do?
“Haha I will bite some of you! And then sit there doing that thing where I make a chewing motion with my tongue out and shake my head vigorously, because it isn’t working!”
Ants all the way man
