Us vs Nature

03 Β· The living scale

Who weighs the most on Earth?

The total living weight of every animal in each group. Each cube is 1 million tons of living animals.

πŸ„ Farm animals (cattle, pigs, sheep…)
630 million tons Β· 630 cubes
β‰ˆ about 29Γ— all wild land mammals combined
~630 Mt Β· about 60% of all mammal weight Β· source β†—
🦌 All wild land mammals
22 million tons Β· 22 cubes
β‰ˆ every deer, lion, elephant and mouse together
~22 Mt Β· elephants to mice Β· source β†—

πŸ„ Farm animals (cattle, pigs, sheep…) weigh 29Γ— more

β—€ Us Β· πŸ„ Farm animals (cattle, pigs, sheep…) Β· 630 Mt Β· 96.6%Nature Β· 🦌 All wild land mammals Β· 22 Mt Β· 3.4% β–Ά
β–  = 1 million tons of living animalsDrag to rotate

Figures are rounded global estimates of living (fresh) weight (Greenspoon et al. 2023, Bar-On et al. 2018). Uncertainty is large for wild animals.

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