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In the totally factually implausible and hypothetical scenario where the human race is driven to extinction, who do you think is next in line to inherit the planet as the dominant species. And I don’t mean a species evolving to become humanoid and intelligent like a race of bugmen, just dominant enough to take over the four corners as the largest and most influential population of creatures

right now I’m thinking it’s going to be a 3 way tie between the primates, the insects/creepy crawlers in general, and the birds.

Primates because they’ve already proven they’re clever enough to build relationships, wage pack wars and create tools while have enough dexterity to be real fiends when they want to be. Insects because no matter where you go, no matter how fortified your hiding spot is, bugs will always be there as an omnipresent and hive minded threat, like the ants that span across entire continents as one colony. And finally, Birds can fuckin fly.

Ants
They're already fucking everywhere.

Crows, they are super intelligent. They understand scientific concepts like volume and displacement, they can use tools and some believe they possess their own language. They are also capable of problem solving.

They're highly sociable and travel in murders which is necessary for building civilizations and they are virtually immune to most toxins and diseases on account of evolving to eat trash and rotting flesh. I don't think it'd be long before enough of them finds out that planting seeds in the ground makes plants grow. And it'll all kick off from there.

Little known fact, they can even form friendships with humans. If you feed a crow or its murder they'll leave you gifts. Shiny objects and other stuff they picked up. So they have some concept of things like gratitude.

Crows have intelligence comparable to children

Crows understand analogy

Link to some scientific papers

it’s a good thing they’re happy with using their smarts for feeding and pranks, doubt we’d be able to do much if every corvid in the world suddenly decided to take up their arms and prank the whole human population. also, you remind me of this image

This thing

Big Nigga will inherit the Earth.

Fool, he is the Earth.

Big Nigga is not a species, he is an antediluvian force of nature that’ll be here to shape this planet millions of years from now. pick something else

Ok look…

If you take the time out of your day.. listen to this man.
It might sound crazy at first, but what if he is right? (This is an awesome story regardless)

Like around 3 minutes into it it gets really good…

I'm not saying I believe him entirely, but he doesn't make any money from doing this and also he isn't connected to the government what so ever.

Plus, this dude really has no reason to lie unless he is a master troll. But it does make you question a lot. He does try to predict things in the future (this was 1996 btw) but from his testimony, things are really unpredictable.

Like I said, just listen to it if you have an open mind (^: this dude is awesome

sorry for double posting but skip to 12:35. He really goes in. lol

(it was past the 30 min mark, my bad)

RATS i once shot one of those fuckers in the head with a .22 air rifle and it laughed, ran off, and gave me the finger.

Rats are actually incredibly intelligent. They are highly sociable and capable of empathy. They can solve problems too just like crows can. I don't know if they can use tools though

squids will inherit the earth, and they'll have splatfests n' stuff

Isopods

Obviously whales. I mean, for all we know, they already rule the word, and they're just so damn good at it that we don't even know. Why else would the aliens in A New Frontier want to communicate with them, and not us? They're in on the conspiracy.