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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (21 children)

Source?

Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You're telling me that there's like 12 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?

Horse. Shit.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 72 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

The source apperently takes the percentages by biomass, not by count as it seems. So small varmints will not have as much of an impact as a human or cow would.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago

in the comments section. straight up 'sourcing it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. My pnas.

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