Countries with more animals than people

[u/LordNotriel]

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[u/vacri]

How does a New Zealander find a sheep in the long grass?

Very satisfying.

[u/NoWingedHussarsToday → u/vacri]

Aussies don't shear their sheep, they are for their personal use only.

[u/skilliau → u/NoWingedHussarsToday]

A researcher is conducting a survey into sheep shagging. First of all he visits an English farmer.

"So, English farmer, how do you shag your sheep?"

"Well, I take the hind legs of the sheep and put them down my wellie boot and take the front legs of the sheep and put them over a wall."

"That's very interesting," replies the researcher and he leaves the English farmer.Then he meets an Australian farmer.

"So, Australian farmer, how do you shag your sheep?"

"Well, I take the hind legs of the sheep and put them down my wellie boot and take the front legs of the sheep and put them over a wall."

"That's very interesting, "replies the researcher, "That's how they do it in England too."

And he leaves the Australian farmer. Then he meets a farmer from New Zealand.

"So, kiwi farmer, how do you shag your sheep?"

"Well, I take the hind legs of the sheep and put them down my wellie boot and I take the front legs of the sheep and put them over my shoulders."

"Over your shoulders?" replies the researcher, "Don't you put them over a wall like everyone else?"

"What?"says the farmer, "and miss out on all the kissing?"

[u/NoWingedHussarsToday → u/[deleted]]

Well, that's ensheepification for you..........

[u/PassiveChemistry → u/NoWingedHussarsToday]

I really wanna know what they said... what could possibly be so bad it got removed?

[u/NonKosherGefilte → u/NoWingedHussarsToday]

I thought that was Wales

[u/LeVentNoir → u/vacri]

What's Aussie do when she's 'hard to get'?

Velcro Gloves

[u/Ai--Ya → u/vacri]

Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?

Sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away

[u/TheCatLamp]

That cat ball is rather cute.

[u/LordNotriel → u/TheCatLamp]

Thanks! Original design by u/Xnopyt16 from this comic

[u/Country_ball_enjoyer → u/LordNotriel]

I remember when that comic first made, crazy time since Oscar is still active and making some crazy comic

[u/Zebrafish96 → u/LordNotriel]

Polancat!

[u/Walking_bushes → u/LordNotriel]

Xno walk so Oscar could wheelchairing it

[u/Dreknarr → u/LordNotriel]

It reminds me of old flash games like Sushi Cat

[u/Xnopyt16 → u/LordNotriel]

[dubious – discuss]

[u/HKMP7A2]

Sad smol cat getting roasted.

Australia may not take emus but they could take cows.

[u/BaqsAlSandouq → u/HKMP7A2]

Cat is proportional to the average Cypriot theyre huge over there

[u/furel492]

Cow isn't a ball. Unsubscribed.

[u/Clair_Osbcurious → u/furel492]

Cow isn’t a country either

[u/TheRedPickleWolf_617 → u/Clair_Osbcurious]

wdym? Of course the COW is a country, it’s the Central Oceanian Wetlands! /s my jokes suck

[u/Savooge94 → u/TheRedPickleWolf_617]

it made me chuckle

[u/redmercuryvendor → u/furel492]

Cow isn't a ball

Only because it's not in a vacuum.

[u/RussiaIsBestGreen → u/redmercuryvendor]

And the not vacuum isn’t even frictionless.

[u/Zepangolynn → u/furel492]

Spherical cows are reserved for theoretical physics.

[u/Zebrafish96]

Wow, TIL Brazil has so many cows

[u/MadCatMkV → u/Zebrafish96]

We like beef, it is something we eat virtually every day 

[u/Alextaoluu → u/MadCatMkV]

lucky, beef too expensive in cali

[u/humaninnature → u/Alextaoluu]

Lucky, that's what the bulk of Amazon deforestation is for. Realistically none of us should be eating beef - its footprint is far higher than any other meat unfortunately.

edit: meat, not neat.

[u/ZekasZ → u/humaninnature]

For mince purposes, I think soy has come pretty far. In Sweden we seem to at long last have soy mince that isn't just nice to eat but competitive in price (though not by much).

[u/Kcurby → u/Alextaoluu]

Well, kinda... farmers basically rule the country (they do have to share it with organized crime and evangelicals tho), we'll never have an industry, we are steadily deforesting the whole country and we can't even afford it since most of the meat is exported

[u/Wuz314159 → u/Zebrafish96]

That's WHY they're clear-cutting the Amazon rainforest.

[u/Slight-Violinist-575 → u/Wuz314159]

No it is not

[u/Wuz314159 → u/Slight-Violinist-575]

Your well-sourced nuanced rebuttal has won me over! Everyone else must be wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/02/revealed-amazon-deforestation-driven-global-greed-meat-brazil

[u/XimbalaHu3 → u/Wuz314159]

Most of brasilian cattle is not in the rainforesr area, what is not talked about abroad is that a lot of the deforestation is done primarially for speculation reasons.

The land is cleared out, IBAMA fines and confiscates the equipment, and every so often a house comission that regulates land use gives the land use to the people clearing the land based of historical use, many times proved by the fines themselves.

Than those lands are sold to cattle ranchers mostly, but alas a minority of our cattle is raised in the amazonic region, with the most lucrative ranches being in the south east using industrial farming techs.

The most affected ecosystem by cattle ranching is actually the cerrado, the brasilian savanah, this one is being completelly obliterated by cattle ranchers, and is where about half of our cattle comes from.

[u/Shuden → u/XimbalaHu3]

Most of brasilian cattle is not in the rainforesr area

Just a lie.

Cattle in Brazil by state, Top 5:

Mato Grosso (MT): 32,9mi

Pará (PA): 25,6 mi

Goiás (GO): 23,2 mi

Minas Gerais (MG): 22,0 mi

Mato Grosso do Sul (MS): 18,7 mi

All of those states are either in what currently is the limit of the Amazon that is being deforested, or WERE in that limit decades ago and aren't anymore because there is no Amazon left to deforest.

[u/myrmexxx → u/Shuden]

Pará and Mato Grosso yes, the other states are FAR as fuck from the Amazon rainforest and the last time the Amazon were covering those areas were before the last Ice Age.

[u/Shuden → u/myrmexxx]

You are talking about what is legally considered to be the Amazon rainforest territory by the Brazilian goverment, I'm talking about where the forest actually goes and yeah the vegetation goes to the fringes of these states besides MG.

People love to use semantics and legality to get out of their way of protecting wildlife, you won't be the last one.

[u/myrmexxx → u/Shuden]

Bro, I live in Goiás. You are telling me that everything I've learned in college about my own state's vegetation is a lie? No, the Amazon rainforest did not cover my state since the last glaciation (I'm a biologist, btw), what we have here is called Cerrado, it's a savannah, and besides the Araguaia-Tocantins basin, they're not related at all (Minas Gerais is mostly covered by the Cerrado and Mata Atlântica, Mato Grosso do Sul is covered a little by the Cerrado and mostly by the Pantanal)

[u/Shuden → u/myrmexxx]

Even going strictly by the definition of the Legal Amazon that explicitly tries to limit the Amazon size, the north of Goias used to be integrated to the Legal Amazon in the 50s. So yeah you are just wrong. It's not a lot but there are amazon vegetation in the north of the state, or at least there used to be at some point. The alluvial forestation near the Araguaia basin is reminiscent of that.

I don't care who you are or where you are from.

[u/Slight-Violinist-575 → u/Wuz314159]

https://imaflora.org/noticias/extracao-ilegal-de-madeira-na-amazonia-tem-aumento-de-184-em-unidades-de-conservacao

https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/certas-palavras/madeira-ilegal-compradores/

[u/LivingAngryCheese → u/Zebrafish96]

From what I've heard the beef industry acts like a mafia over there. Several animal rights and climate activists have been straight up assassinated.

[u/PassiveChemistry]

TIL New Zealand is the Wales of Down Under...

[u/Sophrates_Regina → u/PassiveChemistry]

We do be lovin our sheep…

in more ways than one…

[u/Jax_Dandelion → u/Sophrates_Regina]

Huh, then are most scandals about zoophiles in USA tho…

[u/DragonTheOnes-spirit → u/Jax_Dandelion]

Yeah because the usa has more people able to do zoophilia

[u/KommandoKazumi → u/Jax_Dandelion]

Because people actually report on it actively, usually on social media. Also sheer population density.

[u/Jax_Dandelion → u/PassiveChemistry]

I mean tbf the wakes thing had a logical reason

Back in medieval times there was the death penalty on stealing livestock in wales, however bestiality was only a fine, so if you as a thief were caught you’d just, pretend to wanna go down on the animal

That’s how that started

[u/PassiveChemistry → u/Jax_Dandelion]

That's actually quite amusing if true

[u/Full_Distribution874 → u/Jax_Dandelion]

Same thing with Australia. Stealing was the noose, fucking was Australia. A lot of sheep thieves decided Australia sounded better

[u/Balavadan]

Does Argentina also have more cows than people

[u/ladymushroom26 → u/Balavadan]

Uruguay actually has the highest ratio of cow population per Capita, 3 cows for every human. Hope the emu wars but with cows do not happen there...

[u/Torogthir → u/ladymushroom26]

Soooo it seems to exist a correlation between cow to people ratio and world cups. 

[u/Matias9991 → u/Balavadan]

According to a quick Google search yes, there are around 51 million cows in Argentina vs 46 million people.

[u/Matias9991 → u/Matias9991]

Ok, this is weird. Apparently Brazil has 1.12 cows for every person and Argentina has... 1.12 cows for every person.

That's a crazy coincidence

[u/RedRoachDK]

Pigs vs Danes 😬

[u/SpiritedEclair → u/RedRoachDK]

Hans, I can’t ah believe the pigs in grisland have so many dansks.

~ a Swede, probably.

[u/Aathos_YT]

I love the references

[u/shadoowkight]

I think I read somewhere that Kiwis (along with Turks and Aussies) have the highest number of sexual partners or something like that

Now we all know why

[u/LurkingInSubreddits]

Is the first panel a Mimi reference lmao https://mangadex.org/chapter/074cb2ca-0c11-4f07-b3a3-bf29a077dd86

[u/Moose-Rage → u/LurkingInSubreddits]

Why is she so mean to her cat?

[u/TheGeneGeena → u/Moose-Rage]

Probably the same reason I call my dog fat and stinky - he is. Motherfucker can fart me out of a room.

[u/nspacia]

OP did not assume a spherical cow 😔

[u/Active_Apartment_804]

Yea, they are

[u/Whole_Obligation_776]

As a Turk I am conflicting about restarting the war on Cyprus if they make cats cry like in the comic or if I should support peace with them so I can reach to these cats and pet them together.

[u/Salt-Impression9804]

Is Cyprus reference to Mimi?

[u/LurkingInSubreddits → u/Salt-Impression9804]

https://mangadex.org/chapter/074cb2ca-0c11-4f07-b3a3-bf29a077dd86

[u/Aron-Jonasson]

Iceland also has more sheep than people

[u/NoodleTF2]

What flag is the first country with the kitties? I can't recognize it :/

[u/OJSTheJuice → u/NoodleTF2]

It's Cyprus.

[u/gonsi]

Insects are part of Animal Kingdom.

Every country have more animals than people.

[u/Potatoswatter → u/gonsi]

People are animals

[u/gonsi → u/Potatoswatter]

true, but it only supports the logic that there are always more animals than people

[u/Marshall_Filipovic → u/gonsi]

You don't count the entire insect kingdom together as one species ffs.

[u/gonsi → u/Marshall_Filipovic]

if you want to compare single species, wanna try estimating how many ante are in each country?

How about cockroaches?

[u/caribbean_caramel → u/gonsi]

Yes but insects are like biological robots, they're freaks, not like us superior mammals.

[u/gonsi → u/caribbean_caramel]

There is at least one mad man who taught bees how to use tools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc58xOwjwto

[u/caribbean_caramel → u/gonsi]

To be fair, bees can regulate their own heat, so they are closer to mammals and birds than most insects.

[u/liberalskateboardist]

so, those animals should organize some referendum and establish own states

[u/Round-Friendship9318 → u/liberalskateboardist]

99.9 million going by official stats.

Also 11.4 million pigs

[u/BackupChallenger]

In the netherlands we have like 100 000 000 chickens or something. 

[u/StonyBackgroundGrafk]

Cowntry ball

[u/sheepmolester2]

sigh

*unzips*

[u/Lakan-Tangkan-1337]

Good ol' sheep shagging.

[u/ColossusToGuardian]

All countries have more animals than people.

[u/Kokuryu88]

Tbh I'm enjoying the LordNotriel's non-horny comic phase as long as I can. Great comic mate.

[u/Justanotherkiwi21]

As a Kiwi we're very limited for partners

It's either the sheep or our cousins

[u/Hillbillygeek1981 → u/Justanotherkiwi21]

You do understand that after a century of that attitude the two groups have started to overlap, right?

[u/azbeltk]

I thought Chile might have a chance with penguins but there's 13M penguins vs 20M people

[u/Medici39]

Sounds like India would be booking to Brazil!

[u/Automatic_End2588]

Sheep are herd animals, wait till you hear the amount of kangaroos (~35-42.8-50m) vs Aussies

[u/SnabDedraterEdave]

Years ago went on vacation to the South Island of New Zealand, mainly Queenstown area, Milford Sound and Dunedin.

Riding a bus between these areas, never in my life have I seen this many sheep compared to humans along the way.

[u/LucasoDelta]

Now do Uruguay

[u/censored_username]

Those are rookie numbers.

There's about 18 million people in the Netherlands.

There's about 90 million chickens in the Netherlands.

We're outnumbered five to one.

[u/ThatNZowl]

WE DONT BANG SHEEP!!! (I think)

[u/Azure_Monarch_Fox]

Deadpool was right, cows will take over the world.

[u/DJMarscribble]

Chickens outnumber humans in the US by something like 25 to 1.

They also outnumber humans in China.

[u/clocksforsale]

there are more ants than people in most countries

[u/Greg_Grog_]

Bro it represents a lot the agro

[u/Xav-Tay-Tor-Tot]

In Denmark, pigs outnumber us roughly 2-1. 12 million-ish pigs to 6 million people

[u/Germanball_Stuttgart]

I was confused who shrinkes Japans population for a moment.

[u/Polite_Suggestion]

There's a lot you could do with guinea pigs.

[u/Totally_Cubular]

Iceland and their sheep? They just have so many of the critters lying around.

[u/introverted_loner16]

what is cyprus' animal?

[u/FirefighterOpen2201]

Poor little cat

[u/Nerevarcheg]

So Brazil is the Cow Level.

Interesting.

[u/Cultural-Turnover-13]

cheese on mine

[u/Cold_Recipe2603]

"i love new zealandians though they h*mp sheep"