Wieso können Ameisen so viel tragen und Menschen nicht?

Ameisen gelten als Wunder der Natur. So klein und leicht, und doch können die kleinen Insekten ein Vielfaches ihres Gewichtes tragen. Wir Menschen sind da verhältnismäßig schwach unterwegs. Weshalb beides so ist, erklärt uns WIRED in diesem Video.

„Ants have been documented to be able to carry up to twenty times their own body weight. If a human could lift twenty times their body weight that would be about 4,000 pounds. Ant biologist Fred Larabee and paleoanthropologist John Hawks talk about how humans lift heavy weights and why we can’t lift as much as ants. John and Fred also look into what it would take for humans to be able to lift as much as ants can.“

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