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Indonesian fire ant carries weight 10 times their weight and many times their size

Indonesian fire ant has incredible strength and balancing abilities

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I find these pictures from Eko Adiyanto living in Java, Indonesia to be incredible; almost unbelievable. When I saw them, I wondered if they’d been staged and photo-edited but apparently not. He took the photos in his garden. He says that the ants carried these relatively enormous weights with great ease. This species of ant …

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World's ants' weigh one-fifth of entire weight of humans on the planet

There are 2.5 million ants for every human on the planet

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Are ants the most successful creature on the planet? It looks like they might be because the experts have worked out how many ants there are on the planet and the number is humongous at 20 quadrillion or 2.5 million for every human. 20 quadrillion is 20,000 trillion individuals. To write that in another way …

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