Are crabs still winning and is there a word like carcinization to describe the mammal -> anteater pipeline?
Zotification.
The parallels with crabs / carcinization was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
“This animal eats ants, so let’s call it an Anteater.”
“What about this other one that also eats ants?”
“Uh, I dunno, Numbat I guess?”
It makes sense. Ants are delicious!
Ants should stop being so fcking tasty if they don’t want to be eaten.
Tasty barely has anything to do with it, they should stop being the most common animal on the planet by like a factor of 8.
The total biomass of Earth’s ant population is estimated at around 12 megatons, that’s a fucking lot. I’m told this exceeds the total combined biomass of all wild birds and non-human mammals, and matches about 20% of total human biomass.
If you put all the creatures of the Earth in a bag and pulled one out at random, you’re about 50% likely to pull an ant.
Fire ants are the spicy flavor!
Anteaterization.
Become a crab. Become an anteater.
Hahaha, I thought the crab counter was at about 5? Ez win for the anteaters. I mean there were some bivalve boys but there can only be one, true clam.
Yeah, I’m a crab dude and am not switching to anteater now, this is the delicious hill I die on. But I’ll pay them their rheumatism.
