Thought for the day

[Jolly Blue Giant]

And you thought you were significant 

"The world's population – 7.8 billion people – might seem like a huge number, but humans represent just 0.01% of all living things on Earth. Plants, primarily trees, dominate life on Earth, representing 82% of all living matter. Surprisingly, in second place is the life we cannot see: microscopic bacteria account for 13% of all living matter. All other creatures, from insects to fungi to fish and animals, make up just 5% of the world's biomass. It is estimated that the total mass of even arthropods is equivalent to 17 times the mass of human beings"

[DaveBrown74]

Interesting.

I'd like to see what the numbers look like if you strip out all plant and microbiological matter and just focus on the animal kingdom.