• @[email protected]
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    196 days ago

    fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.

    • barf
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      216 days ago

      Wow that’s 0.0000003% as much, which is conveniently exactly the same ratio as my balls to your mom.

      • @[email protected]
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        156 days ago

        It’s also accounted for almost 100% by mosquitos, specifically the diseases they carry…so not really the mosquitos at all. Quick searching shows snakes following mosquitos with 100,000 deaths caused per year. In any case, the scale is prodigiously unbalanced. Human animals kill trillions of non-human animals, almost entirely for their own pleasure. Non-human animals kill a few hundred thousand human animals (or a bit over a million if you count mosquito-borne disease) in self defense or by accident.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 days ago

        Yeah, the numbers are different everywhere, but mosquitoes cause at least 50% of that million.

    • The Bard in Green
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      136 days ago

      Weird mathematical fact about that,

      That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 days ago

      Next fun fact: Its more likely to get killed by a coconut dropping onto your head than to die in a shark attack.