What's the most successful species on Earth?

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Who should wear the crown of GSOAT (Greatest Species of All Time), and are humans even in the running?

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0:00.0	I'm recording. Let's go for it. All right, I'm Nate Hedgy. I'm Taylor
0:05.7	Quimby and Nate I am going to ask you a question. I want you to answer with the
0:09.5	first thing that comes to mind, don't overthink it. Okay? All right. All right okay. What do you think is the
0:15.2	most successful species on the planet? Pigeons. Wow that you didn't
0:21.1	overthink that. I've always been fascinated with pigeons.
0:23.4	I think pigeons, sparrows, field mice, mice, yeah.
0:26.2	Things that are like you find everywhere.
0:28.0	I mean, I don't know if that's actually true, right?
0:29.6	But like, pigeons are super successful.
0:32.3	Okay, so let me ask you, did you not at all consider that humans are the most successful species on earth?
0:40.0	Oh, of course. Well, I mean it really depends. So I have been going out on the street, asking
0:48.8	friends and also random people, this question, what do you think is the most successful species on the planet?
0:55.6	Wow, um and the responses fall into two camps. The first camp is like humans. Are you kidding me? I would say humans. Obviously
1:06.4	humans. We're the most dominant. We're everywhere. But the other camp is all over the place.
1:14.0	Oh, bees.
1:15.0	That went with ants.
1:16.0	Cockroaches.
1:17.0	Maybe a cockerotes.
1:18.0	I don't know.
1:19.0	Bacteria are pretty successful.
1:21.0	I liked, I liked the bees.
1:23.2	Bees.
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