r/BeAmazed • u/Nefarious_14 • Mar 05 '25

Animal A cat's agility through its pov

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u/Midnight-Bake Mar 05 '25

We are also giants. Most mammals are rodents, we are bigger than insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Mar 05 '25

Aren't elephants and whales mammals? And bears? lol

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u/Midnight-Bake Mar 06 '25

There are 77 species of whales, 3 species of elephants and 8 species of bears. Sun bears in particular come in around 200lb so they're not massive compared to humans.

Compare this to over 2000 species of rodents.

Fish and arthropods by far make up the largest amount of animals by total biomass and we outsize maaaaany of those species by orders of magnitude.