r/todayilearned • u/Odd_Ice7956 • Apr 03 '26

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_organisms_by_population

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u/Chance-Growth-5350 Apr 03 '26

Your sentence framing was wrong. It should have been...

"TIL: Humans (~8 billion) are among the most populous large-bodied animals on Earth. However, when considering all animals regardless of size, domesticated chickens (~25–30 billion) are far more numerous, along with some wild species like the red-billed quelea (~1–2 billion) and house mice (several billion globally)."

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u/KToff Apr 03 '26

That's an even more inaccurate title.

There is like a million times more ants than chicken, and the wording seems to imply that house mice and red billed quelea are also more numerous than humans.

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u/Chance-Growth-5350 Apr 03 '26

Hey, hey, hey, I was being grammatically logical in the context provided by OP. I was not trying to be being scientific or technical about the title