• @Dr_Box
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    363 months ago

    Absolutely ants. The sheer volume of every ant in the world working together would be horrifying

    • @Usernameblankface
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      253 months ago

      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

      • metaStatic
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        93 months ago

        “Bite lion and also any ant not from my colony” would also be a winning move

      • Em Adespoton
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          83 months ago

          That doesn’t seem like a lot of lions :(

          • Em Adespoton
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            133 months ago

            It’s not. But being an apex predator, there weren’t a lot even when their range covered most of Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

        • @Usernameblankface
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          73 months ago

          Now that’s a visual. All the thrashing a lion could do until it dies of exhaustion would barely make a dent in the ant population.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          73 months ago

          Man, elon musk is getting real weird with his hobby of building pools just to fill them with ants and lions.

          Why’s he need so many, anyways???

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        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.