November 30, 2005

Sleep Well

Now that you know the biomass of all ants is roughly equal to that of humans. Crazy, acid-spewing ants. And let's not get started on the squid and krill...

2 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

I won't rest until I outweigh every species on the planet! (Sorry, I meant "we outweigh.")

November 30, 2005 at 9:47 PM  
Blogger JAB said...

A related, though uncitable, fact: the total mass of mosquitos in Alaska outweighs the total mass of all warm-blooded land vertabretes. Moose, bears, ravens, humans. We complain but it is the mosquitos going hungry.

December 1, 2005 at 10:02 AM  

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