There are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
Pic by Luca Galuzzi
Lakes and rivers still have otters and beavers, etc. Not huge biomass but still relevant. Oceans have all sorts of mammals, most of the largest ocean creatures. Only 30% of land is inhabited by humans and our agriculture but land and freshwater is only 29% of earth and 71% of earth is oceans. 30% of 29% is like 8.5%. Once you start factoring in how little of the earth we actually inhabit or our agriculture, it is pretty surprising how heavily we dominate the mammal kingdom.
It’s even more surprising, how we can fuck up the planet in this way, although we aren’t even everywhere
But, where we are, we disturb, fuck up, and only look for our own comfort.
As the supposedly intelligent race on the planet, I would expect much more from us, than just survival - and even that we don’t get right, as it seems, that it over consumption kills the resources we need
Yeah, really intelligent…
I’m not saying, that another dominant animal would do it better, but I’ve really much higher standards, when it comes to people, as we have the ability for empathy as well, but mostly we got the power.
Seems we can’t move intellectually from being just animal and fulfilling our own needs