Some tough animals are very powerful in size, while others don't seem to be able to bind a chicken at first sight, but as we learn more, those soft looking creatures can carry incredible weight.
10. Eagle
Most eagles are larger than other raptors. The huge eagle's head has a huge hook like beak that can easily tear its prey's body. Its strong claws are sharp enough to kill prey as big as deer and monkey. Hawk eyes are also very sharp, and no matter how hidden their prey may be, they can find prey at extraordinary distances. Studies have shown that some hawks can even detect rabbit sized creatures two miles away!
With their power, eagles are at the top of their food chain. Compared with any other bird, the bald eagle has been proved to be the heaviest flying bird. Surprisingly, the eagle, a unique bird, can carry up to 15 pounds of black tailed deer. Can you imagine an eagle flying in the sky with a deer!
The eagle striking the sky is an impressive picture. They are over three feet long, with more than seven feet in the middle, and weigh up to 15 pounds. When competing with other Eagles for territory or trying to attract their mate's attention, the eagle performs a stunning four seater aerial acrobatics, sometimes making a fatal dive in confrontation, and then rapidly descending in a fierce circle.
9. Anaconda
Anaconda is a member of the python family, and the blue Anaconda from South Africa is the largest snake on earth. Anacondas can weigh 550 pounds and are 29 feet long, so it's creepy to see them. They usually stay in swamps. Because their nostrils are on top of their heads, they can almost completely sink into the water, hide and wait for an opportunity to move. Because of their bulkiness, they are more agile in the water than they are on land.
However, unlike other snakes, anacondas do not kill their prey by releasing venom. Instead, they curl their bodies around their prey. Every time the captured prey breathes air, the anaconda can wind up a bit more tightly. In this way, the python will continue to entwine until the prey suffocates. Anaconda's jaw has amazing elastic ligaments that it can swallow as a whole, regardless of the size of its prey.
Anaconda is a member of the python family, and the blue Anaconda from South Africa is the largest snake on earth.
8. Grizzly brown bear
Grizzly brown bears hibernate for five to seven months a year, during which they don't eat, drink or excrete. But before hibernation, they will eat a lot of food, and will prey on animals such as moose, elk, caribou, sheep, bison, deer, fish, birds, and even black bears.
Grizzly brown bears even sneak up on eating predators to hunt them. When a grizzly bear approaches, most predators stop hunting their prey to avoid confrontation with the grizzly because these predators know that they are not rivals at all. The grizzly brown bear can easily subdue any animal that appears on its territory. But usually, grizzly bears don't really fight with their prey. They just show their sharp teeth and claws and growl and threaten their opponents, and the animals will leave wisely. So, the grizzly bear doesn't need to use a real weapon.
The grizzly brown bear is too big to climb a tree like a black bear to avoid danger. They stand there steadily, ready to fight the invaders. However, grizzly bears are usually reluctant to get involved with humans, unless you are too close to them to scare them or they want to protect their cubs and their food. So when you meet a grizzly brown bear, make more noise, but don't run.
7. Cattle
Cattle are powerful animals that have been used by humans to work for us for centuries. It is reported that the first time humans used cattle to work for us was around 4000 BC. Usually, cattle are used in plowing, carting, hauling, threshing and so on. Their brute force makes them fit for the task.
Usually, we have two cows work side by side and put special shackles on them. When two cows of the same size and speed are tied together to work, their strength is not to be underestimated. They pull extremely heavy objects slowly and forcefully.
As the saying goes, "strength is as strong as an ox", it is really appropriate. The cattle are so powerful that they can even walk freely in rugged places with weights that are half as heavy as their own. Farmers will choose a pair of cattle to work for them because their pull is much greater than that of a single cow.
After a short 6-8-foot acceleration, a team of cattle can pull 13000 pounds! But they can work perfectly together with strict training. Cattle usually live a long life, but also can work hard all their lives.
6. Tiger
The tiger, the largest cat, weighs 670 pounds, has shoulders up to three feet high and is 13 feet long. Tiger has powerful limbs, huge head and long tail. The tiger's teeth are sharp and strong, and it's no surprise to bite the animal's skin. The canine teeth of a tiger are 3.5 feet (the height of the crown).
Tigers are very happy to swim and are good at swimming. They can swim 18 miles in a day and can easily cross 400 miles of rivers. Tigers can even hunt in the water and drag their prey along the water.
When running on land, tigers can reach 40 mph in an instant. It is understood that tigers can prey on many large animals, such as deer, boar, bison, bear, antelope and monkey. Occasionally they attack and kill adult elephants and rhinoceros.
5. Gorilla
Gorillas are the largest primates. After chimpanzees and bonobos, it is the third most closely related primate. Chimpanzees are 6 feet long and have an arm span of 8.5 feet. Wild chimpanzees can weigh up to 500 pounds, while captive gorillas can weigh up to 600 pounds.
In the upper body, adult gorillas are six times more powerful than adult humans. So far, there is no precise data on how strong a gorilla is. However, in captive gorillas, experimental records show that it can lift 1000 pounds of objects in one hand! Gorillas, like humans, have 32 teeth.
But the difference is that gorilla canines can grow to two inches long. Canines can help them chew stout plants and intimidate any enemy that appears. Chimpanzees move at speeds of 20-25 miles per hour, much faster than their size.
4. Elephant
African elephants are the largest in the world, and they are also one of the smartest animals. African elephants are massive, with stout legs and huge ears, reaching 13 feet high and weighing 13000 pounds. Ivory alone weighs about 100 pounds and can reach up to 8 feet long. These tusks are used to excavate, move objects, and sometimes as weapons for dominance.
Unfortunately, ivory is also in the minds of poachers. The African elephant's nose alone has about 100000 different muscles. If you can't understand what this means, think about it. We only have less than 800 muscles in our whole body, so you can see how amazing it is!
The nose is both a fifth leg and a megaphone for African elephants. It can help African elephants collect food such as roots, grass, fruit and bark. An adult elephant consumes 300 pounds of food a day, which shows how important the trunk is, and the trunk, which has as many as 100000 muscles, is incredibly strong.
Elephants can use their trunks to defend themselves, inflict fatal blows on their enemies, tear thick branches for food, and even uproot the whole trunk. Surprisingly, because there are many sensory organs in the elephant's trunk, the elephant's trunk can also smell and distinguish different tastes, which is 700 times faster than the dog's ability.
3. Ants
Surprisingly, ants are second only to humans in terms of the size and complexity of animal colonies. In terms of their size, the power of the ants is truly amazing, thanks in part to their physical composition. There are three pairs of vertebrae in Atta and four pairs in Acromyrmex.
These ants use the powerful muscles in their jaws and mandibles to cut leaves into small, movable pieces. Even though the tiny leaves on the back of the ants are nearly three times as heavy as their own, they can carry 50 times their own weight.
It's like lifting a truck with one's teeth! The leaf cutter may also provide a huge help to the development of anti-cancer drugs for humans, because there is an antibiotic like bacteria on the surface of the ant's body to prevent infection. Some of the drug-resistant cancer cells in this bacterium have excellent therapeutic effects. It can be predicted that this may have a great impact on the development of more advanced and efficient chemotherapy drugs.
2. Unicorn
Unicorn - just like its name, it can pull something 850 times its own weight. To put it another way, imagine what it would be like if you carried 850 people or raised nine adult male elephants at the same time. Thinking of this, the energy of this little insect can not help but be awed.
The beetle has a thick shell and wings, but because of its large size, it is not very good at flying. Males have horns on top of and around their heads, but they don't bite other creatures, so they can only avoid natural enemies by hiding in wood or plants. However, with their huge size, they have not many natural enemies.
1. Dung beetle
Dung beetles are the most powerful insects in the world - in terms of weight and weight, they are undoubtedly the most powerful animal on earth. Scientists in London were surprised to find that dung beetles can pull objects 1141 times their body weight.
In the experiment, the researchers tried to simulate the natural living environment of the beetle, and then stuck a line on its back and pulled it backward with the help of pulley and water. The study found that the beetle instinctively resisted in the opposite direction.
As a result, the researchers measured the pulling force previously generated by pulleys and water, and got amazing data about the beetle's own strength. In other words, if a person wants to pull an object 1141 times heavier than himself, it is equivalent to pulling six fully loaded double decker buses.