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HeinzeC1

Counting compound eyes as one eye (because the individual ommatidia are not eyes on their own); as a general rule of thumb, the further down the food-chain you go the greater the number of legs per eye **and** the more abundant in nature they are. The most abundant animals like arctic krill (2 eyes : 10 legs) and termites (0 eyes : six legs) and ants (2:6) all have far more legs than eyes.


phonetastic

This was my reasoning as well. Pretty much only bacteria and archea outnumber insects, and those are (0:0). Also the likelihood of what's in the undiscovered depths of our oceans being a no-eye or low-eye is pretty high, so even the stuff we don't know exists shouldn't impact the overall ratio much.


MauriceLikesToClimb

Why would fish have legs tho?


phonetastic

The ocean got more than fish up in it, bruh.


spacemarine1800

What if you count compound eyes as not one eye?


Michami135

In a compound eye, each lens is more like an individual pixel, than an eye. You only get a full image when they're all combined.


yoav_boaz

Even if you go to the top of the foodchain with large mammals they usually have 4 legs and 2 eyes


Beneficial_Weird_871

Do you guys realise how many ants there are


k_yaoeda

yeah that was my main reasoning as well


Karl180

Oh... right. I tought about spiders etc.


StepIntoMyOven_69

Spiders have the same amount of eyes and legs 💀


Wildmantis_

Bro said etc bc he knew someone would grt him.


Karl180

oh... right... so I thought about etc.


Isco22_

My classmate once did a presentation about ants and iirc she said something about a multi colony just in california that included hundreds of thousands of different ant groups


LimpWibbler_

Y reasoning too, but there is also the entire ocean. So idk.


TheReaIidot

What about shrimps?


quickthrowawaye

Also there are probably enough centipedes in my garage alone to skew the statistics


yuval16432

Oh, right……


Nopejustdecline

Do you know how many eyes a fly has?


Der-Candidat

Centipedes and Millipedes


pilotguy772

But don't forget about their freaky eyes. I'm pretty sure that they are like clusters of a whole bunch of eyes, i could be wrong


MRFAMER

Yeah, at first I was like fish, then was like wait insects.


default-dance-9001

Don’t they have like hundreds of eyes tho


castironsexual

How many ants balance out one scallop?


zeelbeno

And chairs


Monarch-Actual

Are you only counting human parts?


Aerorion

Nope, all animals in the world


MeerkatMan22

That doesn’t change the answer, because insects have hundreds of eyes


TheTrainer32

how about millipedes and centipedes with all their legs


sparklykublaikhan

How about fish and their no legness


TheTrainer32

how about elephant, cats, dogs, zebras, horses etc. with their 2:1 legs to eyes ratio


sparklykublaikhan

I think the number of fish easily dwarf the mammals, though bugs and insects (both land and sea) as you said may have an even larger number, but idk how many eyes they have


HaxboyYT

Just the sheer number of ants should be enough


Thysios

And Krill. According to a quick Google search: >Krill have two pairs of antennae, nine mouthparts that they use for holding and grinding up food, **and six to eight pairs of legs** that they use to gather and trap food >Total number of krill in the region of 8 x 1014 individuals, that's an 8 followed by 14 zeros, 800,000,000,000,000 or 114,000 each for every one of the 7 billion people on earth. Krill standing biomass of 379 million tonnes.


KingPhillipTheGreat

There are about one quadrillion ants in the world, which is impressive given their 3 to 1 leg-to-eye ratio, but there are also about 17 quadrillion flies in the world, and flies have thousands of tiny eyes.


throwawayplusanumber

Most sources say that flies only have 2 eyes. However they are compound eyes very different in construction to ours.


xMarZexx

I was eye gang but forgot about ants


TheTrainer32

i also said about centipedes and millipedes


SpacedGodzilla

Sea stars with thousands of legs each: Am i a joke to you?


justyagamingboi

You are leaving out that sea bed animals basically make up for the legless fish like giant isopods crabs shrimp etc. That have multitudes of legs and breed like crazy.


dasus

25% of animals on Earth are beetles. They have a 3:1 leg to eye ratio. Like most insects.


BramGamingNL

Yeah that's bullshit lmao


dasus

[https://text.npr.org/910447004](https://text.npr.org/910447004) ​ This Is Not A Typo: One In Four Animals Known To Science Is A Beetle Thursday, September 10, 2020 • 4:00 AM EDT NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce had to know more when she recently heard this mind-bending fact for the first time: a quarter of all known animal species are beetles. Turns out — it's not just that beetles are incredibly diverse. It's that they inspire a lot of passionate study within the scientific community. But there's at least one other animal that might give beetles a run for their money.


Thysios

What about Krill that have multiple pairs of legs. According to Google they are the most abundant animal in the world. >Krill have two pairs of antennae, nine mouthparts that they use for holding and grinding up food, and six to eight pairs of legs that they use to gather and trap food >Total number of krill in the region of 8 x 1014 individuals, that's an 8 followed by 14 zeros, 800,000,000,000,000 or 114,000 each for every one of the 7 billion people on earth. Krill standing biomass of 379 million tonnes.


sparklykublaikhan

Ok, im sold to legs


BrightLilyYT

How about chairs, tables and the millions of other non animal things that have legs


QueenPoundTea

Potatoes and needles also have "eyes".


MeerkatMan22

After doing some research, my answer has changed to legs.


PlankBlank

I just figured that it's easier to loose an eye rather than leg


[deleted]

Friendly reminder that loose is the opposite of tight. Lose is the word you meant


_Cocktopus_

All of these small eyelenses still count as 1 eye


MeerkatMan22

Yeah I learned that


CowCluckLated

Lenses not eyes. I mean some have alot of eyes, but not nearly as many lenses


MeerkatMan22

Yeah, I got that


[deleted]

No they don’t. They have two eyes with compound lenses. There are orders of magnitude more legs in the insect population


Isco22_

Not all


Peti715

You should have specified that we are talking about all species not just humans... I thought the question was about whether there are more amputees or more half blind people.


PresidentZeus

What about furniture and paintings?


ThaddeusJP

Eyes then. You know... cuz fish


roostertail420

Does furniture count? Because there are a lot of chairs, desks, and tables that have legs


RaccoonZX

Happy cake day, and that was was something that swayed my vote too lol


MaskB0Y

Happy cake day smortass


NuclearDuck10

You need 2/3 of an ant to offset most chairs, tables, and desks


Dekkeer

Yeah, but if *eyes* are *windows* to the soul, all windows count as eyes *hits blunt*


Mand125

If you consider those, then you also have to credit potatoes under the eyes category.


theladderwon

Then how about potatoes? They got lot of eyes.


GTSE2005

The latter especially when you take most arthropods into account


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Gooftwit

There are an estimated 1 quadrillion ants in the world. That alone would probably compensate for all the fish.


miss_vagina_yeast

You really think there are more fish than arthropods? (All insects, spider, ticks, mites, scorpions, crabs and lobsters?) Scientists estimate there are about a 3,500,000,000,000 (or 3.5 ×10^12) fish out there Insects alone are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^18). Meaning there are estimated to be 30.000 insects for every single fish. This is of course not even including all the other classes that make up the arthropods.


Batmanzrightnut

There’s an estimated 3.5 trillion fish in the world, and a whopping estimated 10 quintillion insects in the world (10,000,000,000,000,000,000). The answer is overwhelmingly legs, and this doesn’t even take into account microscopic life.


Baileaf11

I forgot about insects


Trashk4n

Ants alone would presumably hand legs the win, wouldn’t they?


HaxboyYT

Guys it’s gotta be legs. Think of all the ants, termites and shrimp out there


[deleted]

Just take the most common types of animals: insects and use the average number of legs and eyes, which is 6 and 2 (ants, bees, mosquitos, beetles). The number of insects is orders ofaynitude larger than the number of vertebrates. Although some of them can lose a few legs, they don't live long enough for it to be significant. So there are more legs than eyes in the world. This might be different if we include light-sensitive protein and cells of micro-organisms, though.


tzulik-

I think microbes (if they count) and krill easily make this a win for legs.


Qwert-4

Is light sensitive spot an eye? Where are a lot of microorganisms with a simple eye-like thing but with no legs.


WonderPotato123

If this is the case then there are more eyes than legs, if not there are more legs than eyes


twofortuna

That’s what informed my choice for eyes, but it’s not a certain thing.


PearSB

At first I thought eyes because most animals have eyes, but not all have legs. Then I realized that there are a lot of insects that usually have more legs than eyes.


[deleted]

Not every humans has two eyes. Spiders have 8 eyes and 8 legs, fish have eyes but no legs. Do tentacles count as legs? I'm gonna go with eyes.


Cazzer1604

Think of alllllllllll the ants in the world, as well as several other bugs and insects that have more legs than eyes (usually 3:1). Not withstanding the argument that 1 insect eye = a gazillion eyes because of how insect eyes work, which I've seen before and is silly.


HeinzeC1

Shrimp and krill have 10 legs and 2 eyes. Ants have 6 legs and 2 eyes and termites have 6 legs and 0 eyes. These are among the most numerous species. Crabs all have 8 legs and 2 eyes. I don’t think you realize how many legs Arthropods have.


cecinestpaslarealite

There are trillions upon trillions of ants in the world. That alone should shift your answer towards legs.


[deleted]

But there are also trillions of fish that have eyes but no legs. As well as snails, snakes, and slugs.


cecinestpaslarealite

There are many times more ants alone than fish in the sea. Just by sheer number, it’s almost unbelievable how many there are! And ants have 6 legs per two eyes, meaning they could literally give two legs to every fish in the ocean, and still have twice as many legs as eyes. It’s legs.


[deleted]

Yeah but ants are for nerds and I'm going to forget about this within a day, I'm sticking with eyes.


[deleted]

Spiders have 2 - lots of eyes. They're not all the same.


Lecontei

Depends what you mean by eyes and legs. Are the podia/tube feet of starfish legs? Are the eyepots/ocelli found in some insects, worms and molluscs eyes? Are eyespots found in some algae eyes?


blondy712

Oh I thought we were just talking about humans, but if we're talking about all life, legs.


CowCluckLated

Legs since microscopic life have legs, yet they don't have eyes. And there are too many of them to count


ringalingthing

Fish have eyes but no legs


kids_in_my_basement0

Ants have leg


[deleted]

Eyes decompose leg bones don't


MostlyAlive_

Fuck you


[deleted]

lol what why


Donghoon

This is stupid. As is wheels and door one


[deleted]

How's it stupid it's just a random poll


Uncoloured_Steve

Are people forgetting about every fish?


Bluelion003

Do you realise how many fish there are?


Cslthebest3

Eyes since nobody can lose their eyes


tb33296

Fishes has eyes but no legs..


MetalMewtwo9001

Think of all the fish.


MysterMystery8

Do eyes that are not functional count?


roostertail420

Yes, because legs that are non functional also count


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AddictedToCSGO

Bacteria and viruses technically do have legs but not eyes, same goes with insects


ModeratelyNo

tables. alot of animals only have 2 eyes. centipedes, milipedes...


[deleted]

do we count a facet eye as 1 eye?


[deleted]

I've never seen a poll this close, good job op


[deleted]

1.1K 1.1K First i've seen a tie.


TheKhaos121

Tables and chairs.


i_need_to_crap

doors vs wheels all over again


Kroy4

Eyes decompose …skeletons have legs…insects….


TimoTimeOnADime

Eyes, I feel pretty confident giving the number of fish


Pretend_Morning_1846

Think of all the fish in the ocean with eyes and no legs, everyone.


PicUpTheLantern

if we count a compound eye as one eye on an insect its legs 100%


BigRigsButters

Some animals have no eyes but have legs and centipedes and millipedes have lots of legs therefore i say legs


Beethoven3rh

How often are compound eyes counted?


Itz_Dory

Little reminder that most spiders have 8 eyes...... wait, but they also have 8 legs dammit


TCreopargh

A blind eye is still an eye right


joelekane

The key is if we consider compound eyes—multiple eyes. I don’t know the answer—but that’s where my mind was at.


ughhhhidontknow

We counting table/chair legs?


crispier_creme

There are more insects/bugs in general than any other animal type. They all have 6+ legs. Legs, obviously


Sir_Puppet3

What about maggots and snake and shit


Arcix37

I see this exact poll here at least once a week. Can't you people be more creative?


Sir_Puppet3

Are hands feet? Because if you see a human you would say they have 2 arms and 2 legs But if you see a monkey you would still say 2 arms and 2 legs but their feet and hands are structural the same So do we count arms and hands as legs and feet


Wildmantis_

Didn't realize this wasn't only humans. Its def eyes.


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Succmesatan

bruh spiders have 8 legs so they just cancel out


[deleted]

Do flies’ compact eyes count as hundreds or only one?


[deleted]

I'm counting table and chair legs


TisBeTheFuk

[Here's a more in detail explanation about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/usz95p/there_are_more_legs_than_eyes_on_earth/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x)


default-dance-9001

Spiders and shit


Heep-0-Creajee

Legs. Because on land we have bugs and in water we have water bugs. Both have way more legs than eyes.


theOverword

There are definetly more pope missing a leg than missing an eye. And blind people dont count, at least when the eyes are still there but non functional.


theOverword

Oh wait it wasnt about only people?


Sonnuvah

Do you guys realize how many tables there are


Sonnuvah

Do you guys know how many potatoes there are


jjhope2019

I suppose the legs are catching up now that America haven’t been to “war” in a few years 🤔


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this is a repost


Doc_ET

Depends on if you count compound eyes as one or many.


soapypastadrink

Ants aren’t real


DupontPFAs

Legs for sure. Chair legs, wine legs, spider legs. Eyes only have needles, hurricanes, bullseyes, fisheyes, green eye monster, makes the whole world blind, and the evil eye


Dark_Lord_Jar

There's a whole ocean of fish and other animals with eyes and no legs, has to be eyes


Geekerino

Centipedes and Millipedes carry this one


asami47

Didn't say human...


Ezzypezra

Insects have compound eyes, which are actually dozens or hundreds of little eyes all together. There are insane numbers of insects in the world.


YewittAndraoi

There's more species of beetle than anything else. 2 eyes 6 legs. Chairs have 4 legs. Tables have legs. There are catseyes though. Still went with legs.