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| edHelper's suggested reading level: | grades 5 to 7 | |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level: | 6.35 |
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1 "Rhinoceros beetles are the world's strongest animals!" This statement may raise some eyebrows! We all know that elephants can carry hundreds or thousands of pounds on their backs. Even camels can carry as much as 300 pounds with ease. If we had rhinoceros beetles carry what camels can on their backs, rhinoceros beetles would surely be squashed! Well, when we talk about how strong an animal is, we are not comparing the actual weight that it can lift. Instead, we are comparing how much an animal can carry related to its own weight. Elephants can carry up to 25% of their own weight on their backs. Camels can carry about 20%. Leaf-cutter ants can carry about 30 times their own weight. But rhinoceros beetles can carry about 850 times their own weight! There's no doubt that rhinoceros beetles are the world's strongest animals! |
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