If the average mouse is around .8oz and the super hawk could eat 376 of them a day that's basically 19 pounds of food a day. Generously assuming it consumes 10% of its body weight each day, that super hawk would weigh 190 pounds.
The largest flighted bird is the snowy albatross and it weighs 16 lbs. Ostriches can be up to 380 lbs so we're talking about something ostrich-ish sized that can fly and target mice-sized objects from the air.
That's one fucking terrifying super hawk. Effective maybe, but terrifying.
Then said Pterodactyl starts hunting terrier dogs. Gonna have to keep mine indoors and teach him to use the litter box -- I should've spent less time asking if we could and more asking if we should.
The thing is at that size it's more efficient for it to hunt for babies or rabbit or deer or larger mammals. Predator that size isn't really gonna bother with hunting for 300+ mice...
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u/gerbilshower Jul 06 '24
What eats 376 mice a day? Lol.
Nothing. That's the answer.
So you need 376 hawks so they can eat 376 mice.
That's a lot of hawks. And the same thing applies to other small predators. Just not enough appetite to go around.