{"id":1689,"date":"2010-09-14T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:18","slug":"as-strong-as-a-beetle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/as-strong-as-a-beetle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dung Beetle can pull 1,141 times its own body weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need help moving? Be sure to recruit a beetle! The Dung Beetle (Onthophagus taurus<\/em>), for instance, can pull 1,141 times its own body weight. That\u2019s like a person pulling six large buses full of people!<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/100323212158.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Can you imagine pulling 1,141 times your own weight? That is just what this beetle can do. Find out which beetle we’re talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[127,112,120],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-omg_animals","category-omg-facts","category-all","tag-beetle","tag-insect","tag-record-breaker"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t