Insects may be small, but don't let that fool you.
Look at these pictures.
You might be surprised to learn that some of the strongest animals in the world are insects.
Although a leafcutter ant only weighs about 500mg, it can carry up to 50 times its body weight.
What’s more, it carries these heavy things using only its jaws!
That would be like a human lifting a truck with his or her teeth!
Even stronger than the leafcutter ant is the rhinoceros beetle.
These amazing insects can lift 850 times their own weight!
If an elephant could do the same thing, it would be able to carry 850 elephants on its back!
But none of these insects compare to the strongest animal in the whole world.
The dung beetle is stronger than any other animal.
Dung beetles can pull 1,141 times their own body weight!
That is the same as a human pulling six double-decker buses full of people!
Now that's strong!
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