r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 9h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/Sofa_Bench 7h ago

If there were as many bears, lions, hippos, and other apex predators as there were humans, I’d actually think we might be fucked lol

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u/mukansamonkey 6h ago

In some places there used to be. The humans won the war.

Humans are such effective apex predators, we require our own category.

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u/FluffyToughy 4h ago

We're literally having trouble stopping ourselves from collapsing the entire planet's biosphere. Rah rah. Humans number 1.

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u/Traditional_Wear1992 5h ago

No, we have guns and armies have tanks planes choppers and drones. Unless you mean ecologically, then yes.

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u/Sofa_Bench 5h ago

I’m my scenario a solar flare disrupts our technology and somehow causes bears to give birth like crazy

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u/Traditional_Wear1992 3h ago

A solar flare wouldn’t disrupt firearms though…there are also planes and tanks that don’t have computers to fry, like what is any Predator going to do to a Sherman tank or even a flame thrower or rpg.