Ever wondered how world stack up to cows , hog or elephants if you were to gather ’em all up and weigh them ? Wonder no longer , because this chart show incisively that .
make by XKCD ’s Randall Munroe , this visual image shows how the full weight of various land mammals stack up against each other . Each square toes represents 1 million tons ; dark grey is humankind , pale gray pet and farm animal , and dark-green squares wild animals .
There are a few very obvious features . cows outweigh us by a terrifying margin — let ’s never start a war with moo-cow — and , despite their size , elephants barely even register , which is deplorable . Also , laughingstock are far more present than I ’d have expected . Any surprises for you ?
Regardless , as Munroe level out , “ bacterium still preponderate us thousands to one — and that ’s not even reckon the several pounds of them in your body . ” Nice . [ XKCD ]
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