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Ants, no question.

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Roaches vs. Ants?

It’s probably always ants to be honest…

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Probably. There are quite a few.

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

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I just imagine lions covered in ants from tail to nose.

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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.

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2024 marks 12 years of being pissed that we never got the Tether series we were shown

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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.

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Just a casual 500 and odd billion ants per lion.

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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.

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

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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???

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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

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

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Humans. Because the lions would be overwhelmed in short order after which the ants would kill each other off.

There are roughly 39,000 lions left in the world, none of which eat insects.

There are roughly 20 quadrillion ants on earth, a significant portion of which will eat live mammals, and almost all of which will kill any ant not from their own colony.

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And then there’s the argentinian ants just chilling

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a significant portion of which will eat live mammals

O_O

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Ants just because of quantity. There’s estimates out there and it’s just ridiculous amounts of ants.

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You know those timelapse youtube videos where you watch ants eating a small fruit within a couple of days? Imagine that, but with it happening a lot faster with so many ants covering lions that you wouldn’t be able to see them.

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