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Ants can lift up to 5,000 times their own body weight, new
study suggests
High hopes may help move a rubber tree plant (as the old
song goes), but the real secret to the ant’s legendary strength may lie in its
tiny neck joint.
In the Journal of Biomechanics, researchers report that the
neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000
times the ant’s weight.