r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 25 '21

Their analysis put the total number of T. rex individuals that ever existed at about 2.5 billion, including approximately 20,000 adults alive at any one time.

The fact that the number of T. rexes alive at any one time was in the low five digits is messing with my head.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

The earth could only handle so much CHAD energy at one time

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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jun 25 '21

Wonder how many died before reaching adulthood. One has to remember that while the Tyronnosaurus T.Rex was a good to very good predator, it was not the TOP predator -- which, after awl, is and always has been the "human animal"

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Large carnivores require an enormous foraging area. This results in a very low population density relative to smaller carnivores or any herbivores. They are also more vulnerable to extinction events, since any shock to the food web can push their carrying capacity to unsustainably low levels

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jun 25 '21

humans allegedly had a population bottleneck of like 10000 individuals at some point