Firmicutes. They have Staphylococcus aureus; a flesh eating bacteria. That's all that you need to win. The mammals will kill off everything else, and then it will eat them from the inside out.
Poll: Who would win in a war between all the different animal phyla?
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I voted Arthopods off of numerical advantage. They can just overwhelm any opponent if they get organized. Plus they have absolutely no regard for life, so insane suicidal missions would be nothing to them. Hell nature evolved the bee to die after stinging something and the bee doesn't even hesitate! Plus they are the disease spreading champions of the world for I think a million years straight at this point.
So yea, if there is ever a meeting of all the top insects of the world, and We see them getting their shit together and organizing against us, best to go nuclear option right off the bat. Only chance we have is to hit them hard, and hit them fast!
...Except the cockroaches would survive the nuclear blast, so even then, we'd lose.
So yea, if there is ever a meeting of all the top insects of the world, and We see them getting their shit together and organizing against us, best to go nuclear option right off the bat. Only chance we have is to hit them hard, and hit them fast!
...Except the cockroaches would survive the nuclear blast, so even then, we'd lose.
Yopaz said:
Well, that's just flat-out silly.
There are an estimated 1.2 million individual species of arthropods. Insects alone account for about 700,000 of those. Roughly 80% OF ALL ANIMAL SPECIES ON EARTH ARE ARTHROPODS.
It doesn't matter how many insect-eaters you have when there are entire colonies of ants swarming into every orifice on your body and tearing you apart from the inside. Spiders injecting poisons capable of felling horses into your eyes. Do you know how many different kinds of arthropods carry infectious disease? And they're everywhere. All the time. So many other animals are in such close proximity -or even DEPEND on them- that if there were some sort of organized arthropod revolt then thousands of species would die out almost immediately. Their numbers are essentially infinite, and if they wanted to they would rule the land and the sky.
They USED to rule the sea but that scene got old and they were like, "nah, brah. This water trip is for losers."
rednose1 said:
Actually, the Mythbusters got on that a long, long time ago and it isn't true. Cockroaches are a little bit better at handling radiation than we are, but they die at lethal levels just like everything else.
As a species they'd do well, though. They are low on the food chain, would still be able to find food and all.Samechiel said:
Short lifespan means they can recover from losses quickly, and die naturally before long term effects of radiation get going.
However, this is hardly limited to cockroaches, other arthropods would do that.
On land, arthropods would win without contest. Their numbers aren't just some incidental advantage. They're probably the only kinds of animals other than humans capable of scorched earth warfare, leaving entire tracts of land barren, essentially cutting off the enemy supply lines. Mosquitoes, among other insects, could be turned into deadly disease vectors. Parasites of all kinds could infest food supplies and devour creatures from within. Ants, bees, and termites all have the numerical might to kill almost any land animal. Spiders, scorpions, and a whole host of others are equipped with lethal venom, and with spiders presumably no longer controlling insect populations, the quantities of organisms such as mosquitoes would skyrocket.
Alternatively, all the butterflies could just get together and start a bunch of typhoons.
Alternatively, all the butterflies could just get together and start a bunch of typhoons.
but if we arent getting involved i guess arthropods just because of the size of bio mass
Quantity isn't everything you know.Samechiel said:
You ignored the majority of my post there, but let me repeat. There are lots of poisonous insects, but not everywhere. Do you know how many insects over here can actually take down a horse? None, there's not a single insect able to kill a cat. The most dangerous one is the tick which carries the parasite that causes lyme diesease (which is far less than 1%) and animals are actually growing resistant to that parasites because higher animals have complex immune systems.
Ineffective nervous system, that means they can't really organize or coordinate attacks.
If all the spiders were as dangerous as the ones who are the most dangerous, all arthopods carried infectious diseases, they had more complex circulatory systems and actually having enough brain capacity to organize then sure insects could win. However that isn't the case.
Edit: Also I was over all of this in my original post. Ignoring data and claiming a win is what Jehovas Witnesses do.