Killing all the animals would kill us, so we die either way; I don't think killing all the humans would have a negative effect on animal life.
So I am thinking the animals probably win. Certainly if they can strategize. But either way we lose.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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How much prep time?
What if it's a free-for-all? That is, all members of the animal kingdom attack us, but natural predation still occurs, so for example, if a bunch of insects swarm us, the birds and frogs will still eat them.
Given that the vast majority of animals in the world are now domesticated and cattle, we already won.
You are either vastly underestimating the number of species on the planet, or vastly overestimating human domestication practices.
Only if you go by number of species. If you go by actual biomass our livestock accounts for 60% of all mammal biomass. Wild mammals only make up 4%. The rest is humans.
What if we count all animals, vertebrates and invertebrates?
You know that meme about having immortality but if a snail catches you then you die? There's a snail out there in the real world that can actually kill you.
Animals win.
Is a snail an animal? Because if this question put spiders and bugs etc into the animal category theres nooooo way humans survive a single month of fighting. Just imagine for example the deadly mosquito squad that could be sent all over. How could we survive against anything like that, mice might be hard enough, but small bugs you dont see, theres just no way.
If we make it strictly mammals, we definitely have a fighting chance.
If it's alive and not a plant, not a fungus, and not a single-celled organism, it is probably an animal.
If the bugs target our food supply we'd be done for
Gardener here, I think it's too late.
If this means that every animal immediately goes berserk and tries to kill all humans, and 'animal' includes bugs, then the animals probably win.
Those people in relatively secure places without enough animals when it starts could survive, but there's probably be 50% or higher casualties among the general human population in less than a day.
Could you survive by going somewhere that bugs can't? Can any bugs survive extreme cold?
I don't think 'going' anywhere would be an option. If you're in basically, most of the civilized world, and not in a very secure structure, you're immediately fucked. I said more than 50% but I guessed that as a very conservative estimate. We don't normally realize just how many living things are around us, mostly bugs, but also small rodents and the like. If every one of those within a significant radius of every human suddenly went berserk and wanted the humans dead, most people are not in areas where the number of attackers would permit much survival.
Those who currently live in certain desert environments, in certain cold environments, and so forth, would probably survive the first day, and then might have a hope of making it longer. But most environments in which there isn't enough animal/bug life around to immediately kill you present serious other problems such as food supply. If you live at McMurdo Sound Antarctica, you're probably not going to immediately be killed. But you will soon have issues feeding yourself and keeping warm.
People in Iceland or northern Norway and other similar places might have the best chances. Probably not quite enough things around to kill everyone immediately, but the environment is one in which they might be able to become self-sufficient, but in the long term I have my doubts even for them. If the bugs and animals and such are so focused on killing humans that they no longer perform their normal functions, then you're looking at immediate and total ecological collapse. If they're not, then the population of bugs and animals will increase in all areas other than the most extreme environments, and sooner or later what few humans survived in those extreme environments are going to have to attempt to emerge.
If humans had prep time, maybe. Assuming we could get over our normal difficulties cooperating and actually prepare for the event. There'd at least be a lot of survivors. But if it came as a surprise, suddenly someone flips a switch and the entire animal kingdom is trying to make every single one of us dead? We're pretty much fucked.
I think humans would have a hard time winning if animals have homo sapiens on their side
If the animal team wouldnt include humans, would anyone win? If nukes were launched, even if no human on Earth was able to live, there are still people in space that would at least be able to survive for slightly longer, but would that even kill all the insects? How could humans even kill every single animal? How would the animals kill all the humans? It would be easier humans to coordinate than for animals and if the goal for the humans is survival and killing, would the animals be able to counter any strategy humans try?
Every animal wins there’s like a billion bugs to a person at the moment
Do viruses and bacteria count? Antibac resistance is building. I imagine a virus that fritzed our brains would give animals some advantage.
Neither of those are animals
But what if poison ivy became sentient and chased humans down?
since trying to get all 8 billion+ humans to agree on a plan of attack would be a near-impossible task.
We wouldn't need even close to that many humans. Just a couple of million people (the size of a medium-large military force) with the proper funding could probably kill off all of the large to medium animals within a few decades.
Killing of all the arthropods would be more tricky and we probably couldn't completley eradicate them just because we wouldn't be able to find them all.
Of course that's purley for winning in a direct confrontation. Without any animals we'd probably go extinct not long after, so it's not really a win in the end.
Humans absolutely. Our ability to create tools to kill will always be better than what animals are limited to by genetics
We're already IN the 6th great extinction: humans ARE exterminating the marine & terrestrial ecologies.
Mostly by accident, imagine what we could do if we were trying to kill everything off.
Fungus comes in the outside challenger and ~~b~~eats us all
See the Last of Us
It's a stalemate with fungus. We can't kill it and it isn't capable of doing more than just sitting there. Menacingly.
It looks so delicious sauteed in butter but then again so do we
Long pig goes great with mushrooms.
If we loose, everyone loses.
Just saying.
We won. Not even close.
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