15 Most Powerful Animals In The World

15 Most Powerful Animals In The World
Many powerful animals roam our planet, and size has nothing to do with power as you’re about to find out in our countdown. How venomous do you think a deathstalker scorpion is? How strongly do you think a rhinoceros beetle is? If you want to be introduced to some of the most powerful animals on earth, keep watching as we count down the 15 most powerful animals in the world.

DUNG BEETLE

Dung beetles are dung-loving insects. They frequently roll "poop" into small balls, as if they were the world's grossest soccer players. The way they moved the dung balls, which are often larger than the bugs themselves, astounded biologists. The scientists would put obstacles in the way of the beetles to see how they handled them and would push them with their incredible strength. $5 tickets were available. Just joking! When they came to a fork in the road, the beetles would jump on top of their dung balls and make a little dance.

The insects used this dance break to survey the landscape and choose the best route home. Dung beetles have very small brains, and they spend a lot of time analyzing odors. They do, however, process visual information that even humans with their enormous brains find difficult to comprehend. Dung beetles, along with earthworms and ants, form a trinity of soil transformers. They physically alter the ground beneath our feet, and they do so at no cost to us. We still don't know a lot about the 6000 species that keep our planet clean.

ANACONDA

The green anaconda of South America is the world's largest snake, pound for pound. It is a member of the boa family. Green anacondas can grow to be over 29 feet long, weigh over 550 pounds, and have a circumference of over 12 inches. Females have a much bigger body size than males. Anacondas are found mostly in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins, where they reside in swamps, marshes, and slow-moving streams. On land, they're clumsy, but in the water, they're stealthy and elegant. They can lay in wait for prey while remaining practically submerged because their eyes and nasal apertures are on top of their heads.

They eat wild pigs, deer, birds, turtles, capybara, caimans, and even jaguars to grow to their massive size. Anacondas are nonvenomous constrictors that coil their muscular bodies around their prey and squeeze it until it dies. They are extremely powerful and not many animals can get out of an anaconda’s grip once they have been caught. They can swallow their prey whole, regardless of size, thanks to elastic ligaments connecting their jaws, and they can go weeks or months without eating after a massive meal. What a fantastic intermittent fasting plan!