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Stunning Images of Fully Loaded Bees

From bikes to trucks, we’ve featured more than a few unfortunate folks on EG who look like they’re loaded up to a more than uncomfortable degree. We’ve even shown ants looking like they could use a lightening of their load. Now it’s the turn of the bees. While these insects don’t need to be as strong in the lifting department as their antsy cousins, when our buzzing buddies are collecting pollen they can still look more than a little encumbered.

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Precariously Loaded Ants

What if we were able to carry objects twenty or fifty times our own weight – figures often bandied about when sizing up the strength of ants? Ants seem to cast us into the shade in the All Species Mr Universe Championships, and do so without sporting instant varicose veins in their necks and turning a tint of purple that would put a mulberry to shame. Still, that's not to say our insect cousins don't struggle – especially when loaded to the max.

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The Most Powerful Wall of Water On Earth

Big waves carry big reputations and it's easy to see why. Red hot surfing spots like Hawaii's Waimea Bay and the even more horrendously huge "Jaws" have become household as well as beach hut names, famed for waves towering up to 70 feet high. Yet height isn't the only measure of a wave, and another legendary break on the surfing circuit, Tahiti's Teahupo'o, has one of the heaviest and for many the thickest wave on the planet. Gnarly.

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