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Mystery #3Tier 3strength and size

How can a tiny ant carry a crumb many times heavier than its whole body?

An ant marches across the path carrying a crumb far bigger than itself, as if you picked up a car and jogged home with it under one arm. It does not even slow down. For its size, an ant is one of the strongest lifters alive. How can something so tiny be so mighty?

A leafcutter ant carrying a blade of grass many times its own length upright across bare ground
Photo: Alex Wild · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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