I know insects out-number animals hundreds of thousand times over but what is the most abundant animal on the planet?
2006-09-17 00:48:17 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Most abundant animal would be the nematode (to all who answered ants, close, but no cigar)
To littleflower_57, insects are animals, both phylum arthropoda (insects) and phylum nematoda are part of Kingdom Animalia
2006-09-17 06:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by cyrenaica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are asking the most abundant ANIMAL and not insect....as your question suggests it would be the roundworm according to the url below.
2006-09-17 08:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by littleflower_57 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you answered your own question there ! abundant meant plentyful or "alot of" so yeah bugs. Having an educated guess at WHICH bugs I would say ants or good ole cocky roaches :-).
If you wanted to argue more to the point of who takes up the most space rather than go by numbers alone, I would be more inclined to say we (humans) are the most abundant.
Hope this helps.
2006-09-17 07:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by psycgirl25 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Plankton
2006-09-17 07:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Patches 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chickens
2006-09-17 07:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone told me that there are more cats in the world than humans. Can anyone verify this?
2006-09-17 07:55:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nematode worms.
Unless you count single cells protozoa as animals as well.
2006-09-17 08:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wormies.
2006-09-17 07:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drosophila - the fruit fly
2006-09-17 07:56:05 · answer #9 · answered by Bacteria Boy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are more bats than any other type of animal.
2006-09-17 23:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by cosmologist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋