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Seeing a lot of muscular people, we all have a word in our minds – "strong". But compared to many animals in nature, strong humans are weak. For example, a strong man who is two meters tall and weighs more than 100 kilograms is still very weak in front of animals such as tigers and lions.
And strong animals such as lions and tigers are like a baby in front of elephants. In terms of size and actual weight alone, the most "strong" animal on land should be an elephant. But what if elephants are the strongest animals in terms of weight ratio?
What are the most "strong" animals? Elephants don't line up
In our impression, an adult elephant has great strength, can easily roll up hundreds of pounds of wood with its nose, and a furious elephant can easily overturn a car weighing several tons. Among elephants, the medium-sized Asian elephant is a hump. They are generally between 2-4 meters tall at the shoulders and weigh about 5,000 kilograms.
But adult Asian elephants carry an average weight of about 8100 kilograms. An elephant can drag something weighing 8 tons, which is really jaw-dropping, and an ordinary human can't drag such a heavy thing without the help of tools.
However, in terms of proportion, Asian elephants are not very strong, and their weight is about 1.6 times their own weight. Bearing 1.6 times the weight of the body weight, many powerful humans can do it.
According to the BBC, there is a horse called Sharma, which is a very famous trailer horse that can easily drag goods that weigh twice as much. An adult Sharma weighs about 1 ton, dragging 2 tons of cargo. In terms of the ratio of weight to weight, Sharma is stronger than Asian elephants.
Some time ago, in a zoo in India, a Bengal tiger used its teeth to drag a 1.8-ton car with four passengers several meters. The weight of the car and the weight of the passengers add up to 2 tons, and an adult Bengal tiger weighs about 220 kilograms. In terms of proportion, the Bengal tiger can drag nearly 10 times its own weight.
Therefore, in nature, according to weight and proportion, the world's "strongest" animal, elephants are not ranked at all. And if we look at some of the smaller animals, we will find that their strength is ridiculously great.
There are many animals that have the strength to "explode the elephant", and its weight is a thousand times its weight
When it comes to the ratio of weight to weight, the one we are most familiar with is ants. From a human point of view, an ant is less than 1 centimeter long, and its strength is even more pitiful.
But from the perspective of the ants themselves, they are simply "monsters". The strongest ants can easily drag 40-50 times their weight. To use us humans as an example, it is like a person who weighs a hundred kilograms and can easily drag 800-1000 kilograms of things.
However, the strength of ants in nature is not yet top-notch, and the strength of dung beetles (shit shell lang) is much greater than that of ants. According to research released by the Royal Society, a shell lang can drag a weight of 1140 times its own weight, far more than an ant;
But the shell man is not the one with the greatest strength, in terms of weight and weight-bearing ratio, the beetle mite is the most "strong" animal in the name. Nail mites are microorganisms that can drag 1180 times their weight.
Why are small animals more powerful?
There is only one thing to put it simply: the consumption of small animals is small.
Because many large animals need to consume more energy to maintain their physiological needs. For example, keeping your heart beating normal and breathing normal; at the same time, you also need to spend a certain amount of energy to support your weight.
Smaller animals, on the other hand, don't need to expend too much energy to maintain basic survival, so they can put more energy into "strength" activities. At the same time, due to the excess energy surplus, such as ants, shell langs and other small animals, you can use your strength on the shell, carrying hundreds of times the weight of its own weight.
Don't look at elephants can drag things weighing 8 tons, it seems to be infinitely powerful. But when they are moving, a large part of the energy is consumed to maintain their own operation and push themselves forward. Just like thin people and fat people running, many fat people just make themselves very difficult to run, let alone run as fast as some thin people.
epilogue
It is undeniable that the actual weight of animals on land is not as terrible as that of elephants, but in terms of the ratio of weight and weight, elephants really do not rank up. However, in real life, small and powerful animals do not have any sense of existence, and even if an ant can lift a small stone, it is still insignificant to humans.
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