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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just a casual 500 and odd billion ants per lion.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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???