STRENGTH OF INSECTS.
Jf .asked to name the strongest animal. nx»i persons. begin with tn > laisc.-l. thelephant. and continue with (ix< l n. hor.-cs, etc. This i.«. of < ouvsc. (orrert in so ior as their total horse-power is coii<-eriied; hut for real strongi n, j;-n .nt;« 1 t ; r size and -weight of the animal, one must go to the insect world. t omn.u. d v,v. ; i ..i sects, the strength or abmst any large animal. and est>••<*’aJ*y -t ni'"». aUtu’d. A man is considered strong if he can drag & mass weigamg t.-irec- 01 can times ;o mc.-n as himself, hut the beetle will walk \vi< U 500 times his own weight. If a mac. were placed under a wooden box with five tunes hie weight *.n top io hold it down, he would remain then* indefinitely: hut , sty. the ‘Animals’ Friend,' to retain a stag beetle pri.-ontr in the same way one must pile on top of the box at least I,BOCr times its weight.
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Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 1
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166STRENGTH OF INSECTS. Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 1
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