What is the strongest living creature by size?
The thing is that scientists have recently discovered gonorrhea bacterium to be the strongest living creature on our planet. It is capable of pulling up to 100,000 times its body weight. Moreover, the bacteria has filaments called pili growing from its body. They are used to pull other organisms and move the bacteria itself. The interesting thing is that they are 10 times as long as the gonorrhea itself! That's amazing, but should we be scared of a...bacterium?
More Info:
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What are your thoughts on this subject?
180 Comments
Steve Black
Jim Moser I knew what it was actually asking, but an elephant is still stronger. The question wasn't "per pound, what is the worlds strongest creature?"
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Dec 12, 2015 7:08AM
Joe Foster
Creatures aren't organisms. Bacteria dwells in the body and not on the earth.
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Dec 11, 2015 6:21PM
gudehus
Again, another ambiguous question. So sad.
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Dec 7, 2015 2:30PM
Scott Sumone
I still vote for the dung beatle.....
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Dec 16, 2015 1:26AM
cpschult
Steve Black also... it said "creature" .... bacteria is not a "CREATURE"... bacteria is an infection... or well more acurately creates an infection.... it is a parasitic organism... NOT a creature... I knew it was going to be ghonorrhea... but that is wrong it would be elephant... if the question was true to its wording... and ant if it was dependent on the ratio of weight to amoount it can lift. And ghonnorhea if it said living organism.
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Apr 23, 2016 10:20PM
Carlton Oneal
I was referring to the overuse of antibiotics,which causes deadly extermination of required beneficial microbial cultures.not the total ban of antibiotics,which would lead to more unnecessary disease microbial deaths.over use even misuse of antibiotics are killing off required bodily microbes,needed for digestion,etc.,which will cause more diseases,in the end.don't overuse,misuse/abuse,and become addicted,to needed chemical substances (aka,medication,drugs,etc.),such as antibiotics.but,of course,modern humanity,plant life ((domestic crops and (ecological needed) wild plant life)),and wildlife (animals and insects) ,need natural occurring beneficial (and even predatory and destructive) organic microbial cultures (because,what is destructive to one organism 😡👿😈is probably constructive to another organism☺😊😉😀😃😅😄😘) .
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Apr 25, 2016 1:02PM
Bewley Steve
Carlton Oneal And if you didn't have antibiotics people would be dying of tetnus, typhus, brucitus im record numbers. Yes, why not go back to the time when you could die from a scratch.
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Mar 8, 2016 3:20AM
Jean Cubbage
We are fortunate that we have antibiotics that can control it, just barely.What now?
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Dec 2, 2015 7:51PM
Jim Moser
What was ambiguous about this question?
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Dec 8, 2015 6:07PM
teacherchicky
Wrong! This is not proven yet and a bacteria isn't considered a creature but an organism! Another one to report!
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Mar 27, 2024 3:21PM
Richard D. Boyle
Hey, just common knowledge….right?
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Jun 27, 2021 12:09AM
Pat Askew
By size, most sites show the Dung Beetle as the strongest.
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Dec 16, 2020 11:44AM
Blairly21
Dung beetle and ants should be the answer!
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Aug 16, 2020 9:36PM
Ilias Tsiabardas
We talked about the strongest leaving Creature not a bacterium ,i strongly disagree with you
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May 27, 2020 10:16PM
John McLardie
Bacteria lack a membrane-bound nucleus and other internal structures and are therefore ranked among the unicellular life-forms called prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are the dominant living creatures on Earth, having been present for perhaps three-quarters of Earth history and having adapted to almost all available ecological habitats. As a group, they display exceedingly diverse metabolic capabilities and can use almost any organic compound, and some inorganic compounds, as a food source. Some bacteria can cause diseases in humans, animals, or plants, but most are harmless and are beneficial ecological agents whose metabolic activities sustain higher life-forms. Other bacteria are symbionts of plants and invertebrates, where they carry out important functions for the host, such as nitrogen fixation and cellulose degradation. Without prokaryotes, soil would not be fertile, and dead organic material would decay much more slowly.
https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria
Just in case any of you are in any doubt that bacteria are NOT living organisms; and therefore creatures.
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Mar 28, 2020 7:11PM
Daffs
Very confusing question.
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Jan 23, 2019 7:57AM
Violet Easton
Ambitious,ambiguous,it was a good question that I got. Wrong!
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Mar 11, 2017 10:13PM
Lorraine Ames Legere
No fair... but is it a creature????? Lorraine
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Mar 9, 2017 11:40AM
Janet Anne Crabtree
I would not think a bacterium would be considered a creature..not too thrilled with the trick question
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Mar 3, 2017 12:06PM
Phyona Brackney
Jim Moser , gonorrhea is a disease not a creature
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Mar 2, 2017 12:40PM
Phyona Brackney
It's a trick question. Gonorrhea bacterium is a disease not a creature.
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Mar 2, 2017 12:39PM
Anne Bishop
This question was not clear.
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Mar 1, 2017 12:42PM
Marty Herman
Bacteria are not creatures!
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Feb 26, 2017 8:47PM
Audrey Kelly
Glad to see that I am not the only one who missed out with this question.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:38AM
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