Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j93e8w5 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 11:00 PM

The number of bananas eaten by humans is substantially larger than the number of bananas eaten by monkeys.

The joke makes no mention of the average consumption of an individual and refers to humans (approximately 8 billion) and monkeys (200,000). So each monkey would have to eat more bananas than 40,000 humans for the alternative to be true.

Not all monkeys eat bananas, e.g. the diet of a wild howler monkey is almost entirely comprised of leaves.

Humans eat a lot of bananas, India alone produced 29 million tonnes of bananas last year.

In my opinion, apart from these obviously unimportant shortcomings under pedantic analysis, its a good joke.

xeenexus t1_j96ojv9 wrote on February 19, 2023 at 5:47 PM

While you’re being pedantic, I’ll be pedantic right back at you. There’s far more than 200k monkeys in the world. There are 250k gorillas alone, and 2.5 million macaques.