SortStack #406 — 2027-07-20
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single grain of long-grain rice 25 mg
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and farmers cultivate over 100,000 distinct varieties of it.
- A monarch butterfly 500 mg
Despite weighing less than a paperclip, monarchs migrate up to 4,800 km from Canada to mountain forests in central Mexico.
- An adult Dalmatian 25 kg
Dalmatian puppies are born completely white; their famous spots only appear after a few weeks.
- A capybara, the world's largest rodent 50 kg
Capybaras are so famously chill that birds, monkeys, and even crocodilians perch and lounge on them like furniture.
- An adult giant panda 110 kg
Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating bamboo because they digest only about a fifth of what they swallow.
- An adult hippopotamus 1.5 t
Hippos cannot actually swim — they sink and gallop along the riverbed, surfacing to breathe every few minutes.