Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Beetle’s Great Strength. [ARTICLE]

Beetle’s Great Strength.

If asked to name the strongest animals, most persons begin with the largest, the elephant, and continue with oxen, horses, etc. This is, of course, correct in so far as their total horse-power is concerned. But for real.., strength, proportioned to the size and weight of the animal, one must go to the insect world. Compared with insects, the strength of almost any large animal, and especially of -man, is absurd. A man is considered strong If he can drag a mass weighing three or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 600 times his own weight. If a man were placed under a wooden box with five times his weight on top to hold it down, he woufil remain there Indefinitely.