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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Presumably subway rats and other vermin count as wild?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and how is that relevant to what I said?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

How isn’t it relevant? Large animals like whales make up a disproportionate amount of ‘wild animal’ biomass. But rats, mice etc will make up a sizeable proportion too while being human centric pests in much of the world.

4% is actually worse than it looks.