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Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford
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Right. The new #AvengersEndgame trailer. It confirms that Thanos killed 50% of ALL living animals, not just hominoids. This is a HUGE problem that he has not thought through. @JenniferRaff
When large, slowly reproducing animals. Go through bottlenecks or go extinct, smaller faster reproducing animals increase in number to fill those niches. WHICH MEANS A UNIVERSE OF RATS, THANKS THANOS.
Also, the reduction in genetic diversity disproportionately will effect large megafauna, if the cull was simply 50% of all members of a species. Again, the rewinding will be to the detriment of large animals and the benefit of medium sized and small animals.
Any conservation ecologists care to comment? I mean, this is a universal disaster. Entire ecosystems will radically change or collapse.
He became a farmer, his plan enacted. This is terrible farming practice. What is going to pollinate his crops if half the flying insects are gone?
50% of 2 million rats is a million rats. 50% of tigers is the end of tigers.
Also, what were his taxonomic criteria? Is it all eukaryotes? Or just animalia? Chordates? Cos we are screwed if nematodes are halved.

Thanos is a bad scientist. I am super cross with him right now.
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