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Old 10-21-2004, 12:03 AM  
galleryseek
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Anyone watch "Extreme Animals" on animal planet?

I LOVE this show. they feature the 10 most extreme animals across different subjects, like size, strength, adaptability, speed, reproduction, etc etc... and compare the qualities from each animal to humans.

Just watched the recent one and the strongest animal in the world.. is the male rhino beatle... it can lift 800 times its own weight... if we were as strong, it'd be like us lifting 65 tons (size of a military tank).

The most "adaptable" animal in the world is some type of small worm (i forget the name) - it can survive -300F and +300F, and extremely radioactive environments. When it senses conditions aren't favorable, it loses 99% of it's water, and shuts down its body in an idle state. One was actually found to have been in this idle state for over 120 years, and once conditions changed, it came back alive.

crazy shit!
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