9 of the Most Abundant Animals on Earth

Check out nine abundant animals that help support the food chain in their ecosystems! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Bryce Daifuku, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Accalia Elementia, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Mike Frayn, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Kathy Philip, Patrick D. Ashmore, Thomas J., Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150211-whats-the-most-dominant-life-form https://www.britannica.com/list/the-most-numerous-organisms-in-the-world http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141946751/along-with-humans-who-else-is-in-the-7-billion-club https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-worlds-most-numerous-mammal-species http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/5/677.full http://www.icm.csic.es/bio/projects/gezm/copepods/copepods.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512172444.htm http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/saving_the_natural_world/oceans_and_marine/priority_ocean_places/antarctica_and_southern_ocean/biodiversity/antarctic_krill/ http://ensia.com/features/does-one-of-the-worlds-most-abundant-animals-need-protection-from-our-appetite/ https://books.google.com/books?id=8i_vCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=most+numerous+reptile&source=bl&ots=Hx7_c-4_l3&sig=4ohsCc3NBUR1tehrmSaPZ4nML-k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiats2D9YfPAhUFqI8KHR4iDjcQ6AEIXzAN#v=onepage&q=most%20numerous%20reptile&f=false http://www.waikikiaquarium.org/experience/animal-guide/reptiles/yellow-bellied-sea-snake/ http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/brown_garden_snail.htm http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/1066/how-many-mice-are-on-the-earth http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Mus_musculus/ http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/xenopus_laevis.htm http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/esps/factsheets/household_structural/argentine_ants_hs42.html http://acreage.unl.edu/SnowFlea https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/ent425/library/compendium/collembola.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/science/bristlemouth-ocean-deep-sea-cyclothone.html?_r=0 http://incrediblebirds.com/worlds-most-numerous-birds/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/trophic_level.htm http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1958.tb08787.x/abstract https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/57845/IPA-Red-Billed-Quelea-Risk-Assessment.pdf Images: Red-billed Quelea: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-billed_Quelea_(Quelea_quelea)_(6040990915).jpg Red-billed Quelea Map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blutschnabelweber-Quelea_queleaWorld.png Red-billed Quelea Flock: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-billed_quelea_flocking_at_waterhole.jpg Bristlemouth: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_42683_Cyclothone_canina_Gilbert_Type.jpeg African Clawed Frog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xenopus_laevis_02.jpg Brown Garden Snail: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornu_aspersum_(Segrijnslak).jpg Argentine Ant: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linepithema_Argentine_ant.jpg Springtail: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orchesella_cincta.jpg Snow fleas: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robbie1/8517934578 Robbie Sproule Antarctic krill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctic_krill_(Euphausia_superba).jpg Copepodkils: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copepodkils.jpg Aphid: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acyrthosiphon_pisum_(pea_aphid)-PLoS.jpg Copepod: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corycaeus_sp..png Copepod Egg Sac: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikrofoto.de-ruderfusskrebs10.jpg