What is the most successful mammal on earth?

>>2462676
humans

>>2462676
Success is a pretty broad term

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Cats
face it, they are in almost every home across the world

>>2462676
by sheer numbers rats

>>2462676
Everyone that went extinct.

This will inevitably boil down to Humans vs Cats vs Rats

Now, call me biased but only one of those can be a fat, lazy fuck and still retain an air of dignity

Bill Gates

>>2462711
Humans obviously. We colonized a fucking frozen ocean (inuits/siberian natives) as well as a massive hot desert.
Plus we can effectively turn any environment into any other environment with a combination of a/c and central heating.

Primates, rodents, weasels and felines.

>>2462711
That's cats, not humans.
Lazy fat people are not dign.

>>2463117
We also put people on the god damn moon

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>>2462676
In terms of technical achievement: humans
In terms of sheer biomass: pigs
In terms of numbers: rats or mice, either one is good.
In terms of phisical predatory ability: felines and mustelids.
In terms of biological diversity and sheer number of species: bats.

I don't know, but there are apparently ten billion rabbits in Australia alone, and they were only introduced like a century ago

>>2462676
mice

>>2462688
you know what's in every house across the world? humans

>>2464062
True but humans have to work for it, housecats just have to...be

>>2464064
so now you're just moving the goalposts

>>2462711

>Now, call me biased but only one of those can be a fat, lazy fuck and still retain an air of dignity
Rats?

>>2462703
There's more humans than rats, but only be a fraction of a billion. It is a pretty close race, a "rat race" if you will.

>>2464062
Not in every house

>>2462676
Actually I have a question.

Don't cats and doges fit the designation for parasites, considering they successfully infiltrated our society and leech of our hard work for nearly no retribution and spread in mass?

In that sense cats and dogs are really fucking successful.

>>2465594
social parasites, but you could argue it's symbiotic

>>2465594
at least dogs can be trained to work if their owner wishes so. cats can't become working animals so you could say that their entire existence is parasitic

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>>2465646
>cats can't become working animals

>>2465651
Youtube videos aren't work

>>2465646
>What is pest control

>>2465775
Something that terriers are leagues better at

>>2465779
>what is attacking children and livestock
Something that terriers are leagues better at

humans ;(

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>>2465779
Leagues shittier at + much higher maintenance + u get a free dug up fucking everything at your farm

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>>2465843
Stay salty, my friend

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you all seem to be overlooking someone

>>2465594
They'd probably be called symbiotic.

>>2466117
Ants aren't mammals. Trust me. I checked Wikipedia.

>>2466276
maybe ants identify as mammals, stop assuming their regnum

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>>2462710
this desu

>>2464068
You can't move a goal post that was never there. No one defined success.

>>2462676
Me.

>>2463324

Bats are the only ones listed whose success isn't heavily dependent on humans.

>>2462688
Only in gays' and women's houses
I'd hardly call it success

>>2468744
thriving in the environment created by the most successful animal on the planet is a good strategy, we're in the middle of a mass extinction event and the survivors will be animals we feed off of, keep as pets, or who can survive on our garbage