An strong young male African elephant weighs in at between 8,000 and 10,000 pounds. It can lift (with its trunk) about one-fourth of this body weight, or a bit over 2,000 pounds.
Humans, of course, can do a better ratio than that. I've done better than two-to-one in my younger days, on a bet. ];-)
As far as I know, however, the record for lifting power-to-weight ratio is not a rhinocerous, but a rhinocerous beetle -- which can lift 850 times its own weight.
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Date: 2006-01-25 06:29 pm (UTC)Humans, of course, can do a better ratio than that. I've done better than two-to-one in my younger days, on a bet. ];-)
As far as I know, however, the record for lifting power-to-weight ratio is not a rhinocerous, but a rhinocerous beetle -- which can lift 850 times its own weight.
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