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Absolutely ants. The sheer volume of every ant in the world working together would be horrifying
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
"Bite lion and also any ant not from my colony" would also be a winning move
I just imagine lions covered in ants from tail to nose.
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.
Just a casual 500 and odd billion ants per lion.
That doesn't seem like a lot of lions :(
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.
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.
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???
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.
2024 marks 12 years of being pissed that we never got the Tether series we were shown