As for ant strength, legends are stacked. Still, have the ability to lift weights more than 10 times the weight of your own body, is this not a criterion of mighty strength? But upon closer inspection, it turns out that not everything is so simple. It turns out that this is still looking from which side to look. Let us try to look at the question of who is stronger than an elephant or an ant from all objective points of view.
Tale of Yuri Sudakov "Elephant and Ant"
There is such a children's fairy tale written by one of our fellow countrymen. What are we, or rather, our children trying to teach the respected author of the story "Who is stronger than an elephant and an ant?" First of all, he tries to say that power should not be judged by the size of the creature that manifests this power. Each creature has its own load parameters commensurate with its proportions. That is, if an ant raises a pebble three times more than itself, and an elephant cannot, it means that the ant is stronger. In the story of who is stronger than an ant or an elephant, the text emphasizes this ambiguously. We will not cite the whole story, we confine ourselves to the fact that the elephant personally admitted defeat in it.
From a visual point of view
The ant drags a branch, which is five times its size. Yes, and it happens. During the construction of anthills, they drag such "sticks" to the very top of their "metropolis". Now let’s imagine an elephant, which is rushing after itself a log, more than five times its size. Firstly, it’s hard to imagine such a tree in general, and secondly, it is unlikely that he will even move it by a centimeter. Well, about how to drag him to some kind of hill and in general there can be no question. If you look from this point of view at the question of who is stronger - an elephant or an ant, everything is clear. The ant is the ultimate winner.
In terms of real physical strength per se
An ant with its proportions will never lift the weight that an elephant can lift with its proportions. These are incommensurable quantities, and there is nothing to argue about. Here is the question: “Who is stronger, an elephant or an ant?” the answer will be unequivocal - an elephant. Ants didn’t stand nearby either.
A bit of physics
There is such a concept in physics "the square-cubic law of Galileo Galilei." If you look at the problem from the point of view of science, everything is even more complicated. But for this we will have to measure the strength of these two divine creatures, wondering what their capabilities will be if they prove to be commensurate in proportion. This is the only way to judge who is stronger, an elephant or an ant.
Reduce the elephant to the size of an ant
If such a creature as an elephant is reduced to the size of an ant, according to the same aforementioned law, the elephant will be able to show incredible achievements of physical strength. He will be able to lift and drag from place to place a weight of more than one hundred times his own weight, no less. Here, dear gentlemen, everything falls into place. In an elephant, the constitution and structure of the body makes it possible to operate in a reduced form with such weights that it will take your breath away.
We increase the ant to the size of an elephant
Oddly enough, an ant enlarged to such a gigantic size will not even be able to crawl. All of his joints and muscles are not designed for such a huge size. Gravity, coupled with its own weight, will simply crush him. Therefore, to say that he will also be able to drag on himself a burden 10 times its weight will be completely ridiculous. It tells us science. Therefore, even here the elephant, which stupidly drags its relatively small log, at its usual size is stronger in all respects.
Reduce the elephant and increase the ant to averaged parameters
In commensurate quantities, the growth of an elephant in nature reaches (on average, in the shoulders) 3 meters, and the ant - 1.5 mm. We find the arithmetic mean of these two numbers. We translate 3 meters into millimeters, it turns out 3000 mm. We solve the example: (3000 + 1.5): 2 = (approximately) 1500 mm or 1.5 meters.
So, before us are two creatures 1.5 meters high - an ant and an elephant. What will be their physical abilities in this case? Alas, the ant will barely crawl, constantly dragging the belly along the ground. Of course, he can drag something along with him, but by no means as much as the elephant can drag him along. In these dimensions, he will calmly move the weight, two or more times greater than his own. So why is an ant stronger than an elephant? Why cheat on our poor poor kids?
Conclusion
The answer to this question lies in the sphere of pressure on the psyche with undeniable visual facts. If the little son is frail in body, the mother, to calm him down, always refers to his body constitution, saying that he is strong in his own way, but he has not come out with a height or width of shoulders. And if he were as hefty as Vasya (Petya, Fedya), he would be as strong.
And indeed in our nature to seek criteria in defense of small and weak creatures. After all, to realize that some ant is stronger than a hefty elephant is not only, for some reason, pleasant, but also interesting ...