![]() Male in the tunnel they will battle each other, each trying to remove Where the number 850 times its weight comes from that is the question.įemales of the species will dig a tunnel into a pile of dung and males The paper didn't say anything about 100 times it's weight, but it wasn't completely related to the topic. The beetle could move pretty much unhindered with 30 times its weight. And in the paper it's depicted the tests shown in the youtube video as well. ![]() There they tested how much the beetles energy consumption changed with carrying 30 times its body weight. The video says they tested that.ĭetails about the tests can be found in the paper "INEXPENSIVE LOAD CARRYING BY RHINOCEROS BEETLES" from 1995, from Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA. And the beetle was shown to carry 100 times its own weight ON ITS BACK. In the video, it shows the tests done by scientists in University of California, Berkeley, CA. How have those tests been done? Did the beetle really just grab a 102 kilo rock, and move it about? The beetle have apparently been shown to lift things weighting 102 kilos. The beetle's weight is in other words 120g, and can lift things 850 times its own weight.Ġ.12kg * 850 = 102 kg. The beetle seems to push around rocks, sticks and logs using its large horns. ![]() Sticks, rocks and small logs) out of its way. Used to fight other males, burrow into wood and move obstacles (like Horns (which make up to half of their body length). Thought that they were actually separate species only the males have The species exhibits ‘sexual dimorphism’, which means that females and Male Hercules beetles can be up to 17cm long, and weigh up to 120g. This sounds really crazy, what is it the beetles actually does, and how heavy things is it they have lifted? A human with this relative strength would beĪble to lift some 65 tons (59 metric tons). Structure on a male's head, are capable of carrying up to 850 times Ounce for ounce, this insect is considered the world's strongestĬreature Rhinoceros beetles, which get their name from the hornlike Would be equivalent to a human lifting 9 fully grown male elephants!Ĭompared to an elephant, the rhinoceros beetle looks minuscule. The type of rhinoceros beetle in question is the "Hercules beetle" (Dynastes hercules)Īdults of some species can lift objects 850 times their weight! That ![]() Looking around on the internet, the claim is actually that the rhinoceros beetle can carry 850 times its own weight, not just 100 times its own weight. ![]()
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