how ants can carry 20 times their body weight.

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It has to do with the square cube law. When you scale the size of an organism, it’s weight/volume change cynically, while it’s muscle and bone strength scale quadratically. This means that when you scale an ant to the size of a human, it wouldn’t be able to even walk around. The only reason they are so strong relatively to their bodies is bc they’re so small. It’s just like how if humans were 20 ft tall we’d all just die

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