• Sippy Cup@lemmy.world
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    Being useful to humans is the single most important factor in evolutionary success rates.

    Sure, there’s 8 billion of us, but we collectively KILL 30 billion 70. 70 goddamn billion chickens every year, and there’s always more of those fuckers. We kill more than double the number of chickens every year than are ever currently even alive. That’s how many chickens there are.

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        1 year ago

        Rhinos aren’t super useful.

        Being super useful has a few requirements. Elephants, for instance, are incredibly useful. They’re large, they carry burdens well, they can be trained and will behave well if they’re treated well, they’re social and understand commands.

        But they have one baby every 22 months and it takes years before they’re fertile. So they’re not super useful. Rhinos, similarly, do not reproduce fast enough to check off the super box.

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          If the rhinos are not useful why do we need to hunt them so much they’re going extinct?

          The animal also needs to be tamable if it wants to thrive.