That's a relatively recent development. Historically humans (and their livestock) were a small fraction of all terrestrial vertebrate biomass, and IIRC tipped into the majority only in the 20th century.
It does make one think of the sustainability of that situation however.
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Pretty crazy: "That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together."
I’ve always found it striking that livestock and humans are 96% of mammalian biomass. That’s a lot of cows! [0]
0. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0].
[0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/
That's a relatively recent development. Historically humans (and their livestock) were a small fraction of all terrestrial vertebrate biomass, and IIRC tipped into the majority only in the 20th century.
It does make one think of the sustainability of that situation however.
Yo mama so fat...