• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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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.

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        3 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.

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      3 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.

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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???