The World’s Strongest Animals 🦍

Key takeaways

• Large predators like tigers are incredibly powerful, with the ability to lift several times more than their body weight
• The African bush elephant dominates in absolute strength, able to lift 13,000 pounds. An elephant trunk contains up to 40,000 muscles, compared to the entire human body which only has 600.

The strongest in relative terms 🪲

While it can't lift 1,000 pounds, the dung beetle is the world's strongest creature if measured in relative terms. Found in almost every region of the world, this feces-eating bug can push up to 40 pounds (over 1,100 times its own body weight).