The Rhinoceros Beetle

Its time for another creature feature. These pictures are of the rhinoceros beetle with some of my students. My students will occasionally bring them to class with them in their pockets or in little jars as pets. They look scary, but are actually very slow and easy to pick up. The children will feed them sugarcane as their food.
They are really fun to watch interact with each other because they really do fight each other with their big horns. A quick fact about this beetle: They can lift up to 850 times their own weight. To put this into perspective, if a human of average height and weight had the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, it would be able to lift a 65 ton object