Which are stronger pound for pound Herbivores or Carnivores?

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(12-01-2016, 01:31 AM)brotherbear Wrote: The site is given on post #8 which also says: The Rhinoceros Beetle (or Rhino Beetle) belongs to the subfamily (Dynastinae) and is part of the family of scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae).
At any rate, be it rhinoceros or dung beetle, a vegetarian beetle is per-size the world's strongest animal. 

Most I've seen says the Dung Beetle is the King
"After months of grueling tests, a species of horned dung beetle takes the title for world's strongest insect. The beetle, called Onthophagus taurus, was found to be able to pull a whopping 1,141 times its own body weight, which is the equivalent of a 150-pound (70 kilogram) person lifting six full double-decker buses.Mar 23, 2010"

Super Bug! World's Strongest Insect Revealed - Live Science




Bugs and small creatures do not follow the same rules as larger and heavier creatures.

" Best Answer:  Bugs are comparatively strong because of the principle of scaling. Basically, it's because the weight of an organism is based on its volume, but muscles are more related to surface area (because bones and organs are stored inside the body, and muscles work better mechanically laid out around the outside).

Remember that surface area is squared, while volume is cubed. So, lets say that you took a bug and made it twice as big - it would be 4 times as strong (2^2=4), but it would weigh 8 times as much (2^3=8). Now, lets say that you made the bug human sized, say, 100 times larger. That means it would be ten thousand times as strong as a normal bug (100^2=10,000), but it would be one million times as heavy (100^3=1,000,000) as a bug. It would basically collapse under its own weight.

Basically, mass increases much faster than strength increases when you enlarge something. To compensate, humans (and other large animals) have sturdier builds. We're stronger than bugs in an absolute sense, but compared to body weight, we get left in the dust, since so much of our strength has to be devoted to supporting its own bulk. "
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index...109AAbTEAa


That's why this question is too hard to answer, strength is never cut and dry. Animals are strong in the areas they need to be. Reply