{"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":"<p>Need help moving? Be sure to recruit a beetle! The Dung Beetle (<em>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<figure id=\"attachment_11072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11072\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11072\" title=\"dung beetle\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle.jpeg\" alt=\"dung beetle\" width=\"468\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle.jpeg 468w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/100323212158.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/100323212158.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine pulling 1,141 times your own weight? That is just what this beetle can do. Find out which beetle we&#8217;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":{"0":"post-1689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-beetle","11":"tag-insect","12":"tag-record-breaker"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}