• 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.

      • @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???

      • @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.

    • @[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.