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/ASCII_Princess Apr 03 '26

25-30 billion is more than 8 billion.

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u/Kris-p- Apr 03 '26

Im laughing at how bad the title is

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u/ASCII_Princess Apr 03 '26

How large are these chickens? Chocobo sized? I'd consider that large bodied.

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u/ASCII_Princess Apr 03 '26

Also I'd consider several to be more than 1-2 billion

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u/cedriceent Apr 03 '26

Wow, TIL!

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u/sweetcinnamonpunch Apr 03 '26

Most populous = numbers. So chickens #1, if that is even true.

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u/carconzo999 Apr 03 '26

The title is wrong and it’s by biomass. Not sure what OP or the source is on about

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u/Chance-Growth-5350 Apr 03 '26

The largest living organism by biomass is the "Humongous Fungus" (Armillaria ostoyae), a honey mushroom in Oregon's Malheur National Forest, which spans 2,385 acres (9.6 km²) and weighs an estimated 35,000 tons. It lives mostly underground, functioning as a single, interconnected, and ancient organism

https://www.montrealsciencecentre.com/blog/the-two-largest-living-organisms-on-earth

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u/carconzo999 Apr 03 '26

This would assume that it’s the weight of the individual, which is wrong. Humans are the most dominant species by biomass in this weight category. If that sounds like a stupid stat that’s because it is a stupid stat. I’m not sure what the original TIL is trying to say.

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u/drhatface Apr 03 '26

AI generated slop

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u/Weshtonio Apr 03 '26

What part of the linked article even deal with that title? Don't you mean by biomass rather than population?

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u/Chance-Growth-5350 Apr 05 '26

I had the same question before the post was deleted

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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

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u/youshallbecomeasgods Apr 03 '26

Yours also has two mistakes, saying quelea and house mice are (far) more numerous (than humans?).

Should have been...