system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If you scaled an ant up to the size of an elephant, would it still be able to carry an object five times its own body weight?

In other words, is an ants apparent strength only due to its tiny size?

(Bonus question - who would win in a fight, an elephant or an elephant-sized ant?)
gpt
No.  In fact, if you scaled up an ant to the size of an elephant, it would die.

Ants breathe through spiracles, tiny holes which cover their body.  As you scale up, these holes become unable to provide enough oxygen for their body mass; an elephant-sized ant would suffocate.

The reason is simple; as the size of the ant increases, the volume (and hence the mass) of the ant increases much faster than the surface area.  As a result, the air provided by the spiracles decreases as compared to the mass of the ant, as it grows.  

This is the same reason why an insect can survive a fall from dozens of times it's own height, but larger animals cannot.  The ratio of mass to surface area is not held constant as we increase a creatures size.