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Think you need lots of sleep? Sounds comfy. These miraculous microbes would be dangerous to humans, but they help the scavenging birds digest animal carcasses. Best Immune System: Chimpanzees. Most Flexible Animal: Sea Lions. Females dig tunnels where mating occurs, but if a male enters the tunnel when it's already occupied, the two suitors lock horns and try to pull each other out.

The sailfish has earned the title of "fastest swimmer" due to its ability to travel at 68 miles per hour. Live Science notes that in a meter race the sailfish would finish in 10 seconds, while Phelps would lag behind with a time of 1. What is your favorite animal? Their guts are lined with two very special species of microbes that destroy toxins, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

Now, who's up for dinner?

Chilling Out, Warming Up: How Animals Survive Temperature Extremes - American Chemical Society

Let us know your thoughts in the comments! They're just slow. Most Robust Digestive System: Vultures. Animals must dodge predators, battle their competition and fight off illness. These pound giants often outlive humans, so it's a little unclear how long giant tortoises live. That's equivalent to a pound person lifting six double-decker buses full of passengers. He hypothesizes that the mite evolved in part to move quickly in order to hunt efficiently.

Limber limbs also help when contorting themselves into their favorite sleeping positions, such as with four flippers tucked under their bodies or upright with their noses pointed toward the sky. If you could be one animal, what type would you be? Considering their regular diet of rotting flesh, how can vultures consume all that bacteria without getting sick?

Video of the Day. Screenshot loading Scientists have dubbed the male horned dung beetle the world's strongest insect for its ability to pull 1, times its body weight. Bow down, cheetahs. Others have survived to an estimated years.

Fitness General Fitness Other Sports. Strongest Insect: Horned Dung Beetles. Which animal do you find most impressive? There are no Olympics or playoffs in the animal kingdom: Fitness is a matter of life and death. Most recently, a British tortoise named Thomas was euthanized at age due to complications from a rat bite, reports National Geographic. And the stakes are high: Being physically fit is key to health and survival.

The animal kingdom is one wild world. One study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology pinpointed the mite's speed at body lengths per second. The fastest land animal for its size is a mite, an arthropod that's smaller than a sesame seed and invisible to the naked eye.

From insanely strong fighting skills to jaw-dropping longevity and breakneck speeds, here are the fittest creatures of land, air and water.