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The mighty grizzly

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bear, the tiny, powerful

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and the lunging inimitable

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crocodile,
the indestructible rhino beetle.

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The hammering mantis shrimp,
which is the strongest.

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Of them all.

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In the rugged beauty of North America's
subalpine

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lions patrols its mightiest resident.

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Brown bears are aggressive, formidable
animals that can weigh up to a half a ton,

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have a bite, force of over
£1,000 per square inch

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and at full speed can run at 50 kilometers

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per hour

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with the claws over

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ten centimeters
long and huge mounds on their back.

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That anchor massive shoulder muscles.

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They're digging in.

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Striking capacity is phenomenal, squeezing

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upright on their hind legs.

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These awesome creatures can stand
three meters tall and towering above

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all but their own kind.

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Despite the Caribou's valiant defense,

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the incredible muscle power of the bears,
forearms and shoulders, combined

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with its smashing claws and powerful
jaws, proved too great offering

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territorial, massive and highly resilient.

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These bears are built to resist the cold
and make the most of the seasonal food

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supplies.

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The grisly sense of smell is so strong

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it can even sniff out fish underwater

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at several kilograms each.

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The salmon that make their annual
migration upstream provide abundant fat,

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which reels that will bolster the bear's
huge winter reserves

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before the winter hibernation.

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They will need to almost double
their body weight, excellent swimmers

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and well-insulated against the cold

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much time
can be spent in the alpine waters.

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Although fatal encounters are rare
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These bears
have been known to fight to the death

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as Ted two meters by 20 centimeters
edge with claws half again

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as long strike blows sounding

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throughout the forest.

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A fully grown adult

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male stands a meter tall on the shoulder
and has a body over two meters

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long and a sense of smell stronger
than a dog's.

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The immense

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bulk of these frequently waterlogged
hunters is supported by full, powerful,

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sure footed legs
that appear unaffected by the swirling

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currents and powerful torrents of water
that often surround

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them.

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Highly intelligent animals
with impressive memories.

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The young spend just two seasons
with their mothers learning

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all there is to know
about the seasonal ebb and flow of food.

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The best places
to seek out these annual feasts

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and the hunting techniques needed
to catch them, such as the lure of salmon.

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That this is one of the few times
that adult grizzlies will

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tolerate each other.

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The huge jeep

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of a grizzly measures
a massive 30 centimeters.

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It is a gate that houses
four canine teeth each

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five centimeters long.

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The strength of their jaws, such
that they have been seen biting through

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pine trees, 20 centimeters in diameter.

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With winter approaching,
bears will eat as much as they can.

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Even when salmon are plentiful,
these omnivores will continue to eat

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anything from the bountiful salmon
to grass,

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berries, deer and even elk.

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In preparation for hibernation,
they will put on over a kilo

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a day

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navigating the world with their noses.

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These masterful beasts remember
and return to past places of plenty

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and will revisit them time and time again

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with their mighty bodies,

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strong senses,
powerful claws and forceful lips.

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Could these grizzly beasts
be the strongest animal.

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Of them all?

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With over

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12,000 species, the
ants of the world come in great variety.

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But they are all tough, strong
territorial defenders of their realms

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and will dispatch unwanted guests

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with relish, hearty

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mandibles, cut, bite and carry,
sometimes even carrying off the eggs

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of other species
that they will rear as slaves.

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Other times, carrying victims
far larger than themselves

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and get other times are used as weapons

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to see off giants

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with wing casts that are
perfectly designed to colonize new lands.

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The ants of the world reign supreme

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with species that can carry up to 50 times
their own weight

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and those with jaws they can pin down
and dismember their opponents.

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These tiny warriors are supremely powerful

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in the tropical forests of Australia.

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Green tree answer are familiar sight

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with colonies
that can reach up to a half a million.

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These entirely cooperative social insects

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build their nests of
leaves high in the branches

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and relative to their tiny

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size and muscles are much thicker
than those of larger animals.

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MG four.

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MG They produce much more force.

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If human muscles were in proportion
to those events,

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we would be able to wave a car
over our heads.

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Major worker ants
weave the exterior of the nest together,

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their bodies linked in chains.

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They pull the leaf edges closer together
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and by ant

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carried in the mandibles of other worker.

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Ants are the sticky white larvae
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These produce a silk
which is squeezed out in zigzags

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and used to bind the leaves
of the nest closely together.

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One colony will make several nests.

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In some places, over 150 spread over a
dozen trees belonging to the same colony.

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These are defended with such ferocity
by these pugnacious, tiny warriors

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that the areas in between
colonies are often

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no insect zones.

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The oval nests can be 50 centimeters long,

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if not by an unsuspecting passer by swarms
of these eight mm territorial soldiers

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run out,
gesticulating wildly with open jaws

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ready for a fight.

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Green ants have a battery of attack
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on top of their strength of numbers.

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They have a bite that they follow up
with a strain of ascorbic acid,

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with a cooperative battle plan
and some impressive wrestling moves.

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Some of the colony grip and pinned down
their victim while others dismember it.

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It will be fed to their larvae

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and with their massive colonies

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in some forest, ant numbers
make up half the total number of insects.

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With one and a half million
ants to every human on the planet.

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The total weight of the world's
humans and its ants.

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Despite the colossal size
difference, is almost the same

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in the dry Arizonan desert.

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These harvester ants
are about to take to the skies

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for their nuptial flight.

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Winged reproducing

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princesses and drones
congregate around the nest.

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The Mexican Horned Lizard times
its daily activities

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such as they are around the time
the ants are the most active

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harvester.

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Ants have an extremely toxic venom,
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swallowing them whole.

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The horned lizards blood

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has a neutralizing agent,
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A revenge attack is sometimes launched,
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remains impervious to their stings,
with pheromones drenching the air.

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Males and females are drawn together
in a commotion of mating, commences.

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Once it is over, the drones will die

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while the females will find a spot
to colonize and pull off their wings.

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They won't be needed anymore

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for this.

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Once in a lifetime opportunity,

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the males swarm the females, several
trying to meet with one.

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From this meeting
she will start a new colony.

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Their tiny bodies

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belying their power, the venom and sheer
muscle are the scurrying ants.

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The strongest animals we know

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and for as long as the rivers have flowed,

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dark reptiles have covered their waters

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for the unmistakable jaw of a crocodile
possesses the most powerful bite force

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of any animal ever recorded, rivaling
even the mighty

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Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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The very definition of an ambush predator.

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The crocodile is fast, powerful,

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undiscriminating, and when it chooses

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barely visible,
propelled by tails of solid muscle,

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crocodiles can launch their entire bodies
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Massive
jaws aimed directly at their target.

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The largest of Nile crocodiles
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and for them, nothing is off limits,

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with magnifying crystals in their eyes,
creating superb binocular vision.

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Crocodiles also have a transparent
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a hauntingly silent approach

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a 200 kilogram wildebeest

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does a perfectly reasonable target

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when it has the wildebeest in its jaws.

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The valve at the back of the crocodile
stroke allows it to take the animal

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under the surface
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They can stay submerged for hours

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and lunge out at any time.

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Their jaws are so perfect
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and generate such enormous power
that victims are helpless.

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Sensory people and their skin allows crocs
to sense the vibration of their prey

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so they can feel its presence,
even if they can't see it.

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Opening its mouth while basking prevents
a crocodile's brain from overheating

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while its body continues to absorb heat

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propelled almost entirely
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These largest reptiles are superb swimmers
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from open ocean to 150 kilometers upriver.

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The largest don't.

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Saltwater crocodiles have topped
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with a prehistoric elegance.

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This croc swimming efficiency is increased
as the race scoots on its tail channel.

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Water to either side of its body.

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The muscles

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that power the jaw,
the four and a half meters saltwater croc

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generally two tonnes of pressure
enough for their teeth

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to puncture metal

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of everything that it eats.

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Between 50 and 70% of
it will be converted to flesh and energy.

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Unlike the 3 to 4% converted in humans.

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With such a high food to energy conversion
rate, crocodiles can go months without.

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Eating

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or dealing.

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With their external ear flaps.

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Crocodiles have the most advanced
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as well as its armored body.

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Powerful tail, incredible draw strength
and unsurpassed ambush techniques.

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Is the crocodile
simply the strongest animal of them all

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with their mighty trees and flowing
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Forests are symbols of great towering
strength, yet scurrying over the plant's

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branches and leaf litter
below is a creature so strong

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it can lift 850 times its own weight,

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tougher than the birds and snakes
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This hardened warrior is without a doubt

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one of the strongest
animals on the planet.

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The phenomenal rhinoceros beetle

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is among the largest
and most extraordinary of beetles

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in the world and is the largest of all

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Australian scarab beetles.

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These hardened,
stocky horned insects can be six

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centimeters long,
only their rear wings beat in flight.

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The four wings of these flying bulky
beetles are hardened to a toughened cover

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for the rear wings that lie underneath

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tiny claws

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on the ends of their feet help them cling
on, while three pairs of long

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articulated legs bring the beetle closer
to the scene of its next fight.

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Males with larger
horns will outcompete smaller

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horned males,
and in doing so, gain access to females.

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They come to feed on the trees to. Make

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them more

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When females are around.

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Males
go horned to mourn in combat, the aim

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to dislodge their opponent
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These two

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titans of the insect world
shouldn't fear each other's presence.

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The rhino beetle is a vegetarian
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While the confident
praying mantis tends to prey on insects,

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it knows it can overpower.

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The hearty rhino beetle will do for
stepping stone. For.

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Each pair of tough forked horns
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These males can just pinch hit
their rival, all with the aim

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of toppling their five

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hard hyenas.

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Exoskeletons provide armor
against assaults, knocks and falls.

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And should they be toppled?

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These winged battlers
can take refuge in flight.

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Rhino beetles
have tibial spurs on their legs,

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which help to give them a solid grip,

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a very different use
to the legs of a praying mantis,

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which are laced with rows of spines
that help them to grip their meaty victims

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with some of

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the biggest and most elaborate weapons
in the animal kingdom.

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These rugged insects converge
on their favorite branches.

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The battle ground
for a seemingly endless war.

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These Herculean horned
beetles are as tough

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as it gets.

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Not only does the colorful mantis shrimp
have the most complex and bizarre

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looking eyes in the animal kingdom,
it can deliver a blow

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with the equivalent
force of a 22 caliber bullet.

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The powerful second leg of a mantis
shrimp is a formidable reportorial claw.

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Some are modified as close
and some as spears.

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These tough crustaceans can deliver a blow
so powerful

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that they have been known
to smash through aquarium glass

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with 16 visual pigments
more than five times our own.

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Each of these stuffed
eyes has stereo vision.

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Some mantises seem to prefer

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hiding out in preexisting burrows,
and good ones are in short supply.

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These wild shrimp
will compete aggressively for them

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no matter who the opposition is.

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The speed of their strike
is one of the fastest responses known.

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Some strike with velocities
up to ten meters a second.

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Visual hunters.

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These speedy creatures can see infrared,
ultraviolet

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and polarized light
and all from their spying, stalked, die,

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their bodies safely hidden
in the comfort of their current

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burrow.

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Hammering
through the exoskeleton of a crab

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is something very few
creatures are capable of.

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Yet a few blows from the bludgeoning
club of the mantis shrimp

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is more than enough.

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Their hammer

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like appendages
have a lunch and spring mechanism

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that aids in the generation of massive
shell shattering

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force, a dazzling collection
of feeding, mouthparts and appendages.

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Allow this beautiful mantis shrimp
to feed on

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an array of mussels,
crabs, clams and snails.

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Whether it

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is for strength of vision, sheer power
or strength of response time,

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could this dazzling little shrimp
be the strongest there is

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the colossal bear.

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The fear was that the formidable

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crocodile, the armored rhino beetle
or the hammering mantis shrimp,

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which is the strongest of them all.