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- Cow biomass exceeds 650 million tonnes (1.3 billion cattle conservatively weighing 500 kg each).
- The only wild species in the running is Antarctic Krill. A 2009 global estimate gives 379 million tonnes fresh biomass, but unknown aspects of this shrimp's ecology make it hard to be sure.
- By comparison, blue whales (with their krill-based diet) comprised about 35 million tonnes pre-whaling, and about half a million tonnes in 2001
- One may say that among the most widespread animals are humans. 6.9 billion people averaging 50 kg each equals roughly 350 million tonnes.
- In the animal kingdom, ironically, the smallest creatures in an ecosystem typically represent the largest quantity of its biomass. It is important to note that the relative biomass species mix may change considerably from season to season and even from year to year.
- In their book "Ant Ecology," Lach, Parr, and Abbott (2010) quote Holldobler and Wilson (1990) in saying that "The estimated 10,000 trillion individual ants alive at any one time weigh about as much as all human beings combined." But the main reason the answer ants don't have the largest biomass on earth is that ants are not a single species. Ants are a taxonomic family with more than 14,000 described species and subspecies, so it's really unfair to compare their biomass with, say, leopards or bull frogs. Or humans or Antarctic krill.
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the whale
What is a list of the levels of taxonomy from smallest to largest?
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Which is the largest vertebrate?
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That'd be insects
Which class of animals are the largest and the most diverse of all animals and segment bodies supported by an exoskeleton?
That'd be insects
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the ant
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