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Ants can lift 50 times their body weight.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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4 sources for · 0 against

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Is it true that ants can lift 50 times their body weight?

Unclear. Several sources repeat or exceed the 50-times figure — a Skeptics answer citing a photo of an ant lifting 100 times its weight, a textbook problem giving roughly 100 times, and a guide claiming 5,000 times — but these are popular or illustrative assertions rather than rigorous measurements of the general claim.

Verdict: PARTIAL LEAN · 4 sources for, 0 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 4
Can ants lift 50 times their weight?
2011
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Can ants lift 50 times their weight?. (2011). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3469/can-ants-lift-50-times-their-weight

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A Guide to the Ants of Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia): Identification Key to Ant Genera and Images of the EFForTS collection
2021
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A Guide to the Ants of Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia): Identification Key to Ant Genera and Images of the EFForTS collection. (2021). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.14203/press.273

A Sense of Place
1999
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Kriesberg, D. A. (1999). A Sense of Place. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=5uTEEAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api

Calculus for The Life Sciences
2014
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Schreiber, S. J., Smith, K. J., & Getz, W. M. (2014). Calculus for The Life Sciences. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=BEBDAwAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api

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