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Are there more ants or fish in the world?
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Are there more ants or fish in the world?
Dear Yahoo!:
Are there more ants or fish in the world?
Jeremy
San Francisco, California
The answer will be in a post further down this page.
I don't have a clue. But I'd say fish because there is more water covering the earth than land.
What's your guess?
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fyi: don't know if this will force you to rethink your hypothesis, but scientists discovered swimming ants a few days ago.
My guess is ants, though I doubt any answer is absolute considering there is much about this world that is still a mystery.
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Originally Posted by http://pages.prodigy.net/jhonig/bignum/indx.html
TRILLION 1,000,000,000,000 fish in all the world
Originally Posted by Embery, Joan with Ed Lucaire. Collection of Amazing Animal Facts. 1983.
Scientists estimate that there are one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) ants living on the earth at any given time.
We have a winner.
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Originally Posted by Stradlater
We have a winner.
CONGRATULATIONS!  
Dear Yahoo!:
Are there more ants or fish in the world?
Jeremy
San Francisco, California
Dear Jeremy:
As we've been informed many times, "Don't worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea." Likewise, we've noted oodles of ants in the collective pants. But just how many?
About Big Numbers illustrates mind-bogglingly large numbers with real-world examples -- just one place we found the estimate of a quadrillion ants worldwide (give or take a few trillion). A quadrillion is a 1 plus 15 zeros: more than the total amount of cells in an average human, the distance in miles to the nearest star, or potential jokes about Dick Cheney. A number so large, ant population estimates say they comprise up to 15% of all animal biomass.
As to fish, well, we did find there are upwards of 25,000 known species, with hundreds more discovered yearly. But try as we might, we couldn't find any marine-life census with even a guesstimate of total population. Our friend at About Big Numbers puts it nicely:
"Some things are very difficult to calculate or even to estimate with any degree of precision...The number of fish on this planet seems to be this sort of thing...The most precise expression of number I have found regarding the totality of fish is...'many trillions and trillions...' "
Keep in mind, too, the number of fish in the ocean are actually decreasing from overfishing, while the ant population contracts only with our limited ability to squeeze off a burst of Raid.
So our less-than-official answer: The quadrillion ants kick the trillions-of-fish's tail. Though not at the box office.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20060313.html
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Originally Posted by Thread Grader
fyi: don't know if this will force you to rethink your hypothesis, but scientists discovered swimming ants a few days ago.
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Originally Posted by Thread Grader
fyi: don't know if this will force you to rethink your hypothesis, but scientists discovered swimming ants a few days ago.
Scientists announced today that the swimming ant is now extinct. Apparently they were all eaten by the fish.
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Well you have a few hundred to several thousand ants per colony. This depends on species and age of the hill, and of course time of year. By mid August in the northern hemisphere most hills have around a thousand to over 80 thousand ants. You have about 50 hills per acre.
Lets have a picnic!
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Originally Posted by Y3a
Well you have a few hundred to several thousand ants per colony. This depends on species and age of the hill, and of course time of year. By mid August in the northern hemisphere most hills have around a thousand to over 80 thousand ants. You have about 50 hills per acre.
Thank goodness for Amdro. It really sucks when your 18 month old steps in a fire ant mound.
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Those worker ants are certainly very busy.
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Originally Posted by wdlove
Those worker ants are certainly very busy.
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Cover the fireant hill in Roach powder or Borax. Or a few gallons of gas.
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I urinate on our ant beds. Works every time.
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Just some other info...
Ants and wasps are related, but they aren't sure which came first.
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