 | The largest animal on Earth is the blue whale. Blue whales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That's as long as a 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days, most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales generally weigh more than the males. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed 389,760 pounds.
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Stuffed Blue Whale |
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 | The African elephant. At full size, African elephants -- the largest living mammals on land -- can weigh 14,000 pounds. There are only three species alive today: the Asian elephant, the African savannah elephant and the African forest elephant. The largest living elephant, and overall the largest living land mammal, is the male African elephant, which can consume up to 600 pounds of food a day. |
African Elephant Poster |
African Elephant - The World's Biggest Land Mammal |
 | The giraffe is an African mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species. Males can be 4.8 to 5.5 metres (16 to 18 feet) tall and weigh up to 1,360 kilograms,000 pounds). The tallest was 5.87 m (19.2 feet) tall and weighed approximately 2,000 kg (4,400 lbs.). Females are generally slightly shorter. The giraffe is related to deer and cattle. Its range extends from Chad to South Africa. |
Giraffe Stuffed Animal |
Giraffe Blanket |
 | The Bison is the biggest animal in the Yellowstone National Park. They can weigh up to 2,000 pounds. The most abundant grazing animal in North America was formerly the American Bison. One estimate of the original number of bison in North America ranged as high as 70 million animals. A single herd located southwest of what is now Dodge City, Kansas in 1871 was carefully estimated to have over 4 million members! |
Stuffed Baby Bison |
Bison Book |
 | The hippopotamus (hippos meaning "horse" and potamos meaning "river") is a large, mostly plant-eating African mammal. The hippo is semi-aquatic, inhabiting rivers and lakes in Africa in large groups of up to 40 hippos. During the day they remain cool by staying in the water or mud.
Despite their physical resemblance to pigs their closest living relatives are whales, porpoises and the like. The hippopotamus can easily outrun a human. Despite its popularity in zoos and cuddly portrayal as gentle giants, the hippopotamus is among the most dangerous and aggressive of all mammals. |
Hippo Plush Animal |
Hungry Hippo Game |
 | The Capybara is the largest living rodent in the world. It is related to guinea pigs. Its common name means "master of the grasses".
Capybaras have heavy, barrel-shaped bodies and short heads with reddish-brown fur on the upper part of their body that turns yellowish-brown underneath. Adult capybaras may grow to 4.3 ft and weigh up to 140 lb. They have slightly webbed feet, no tail, and 20 teeth. |
Capybara - The World's Largest Rodent |
Capybara Tote Bag |
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Belgian draft horse is a breed which comes from Belgium. They are one of the strongest of the heavy breeds.
On average the Belgian will grow to weigh slightly over 1 ton or 2,000 pounds. The world's tallest Belgian Draft is Radar, a gelding foaled in 1998 in Iowa. He stands at 19.3½ hands high, which means he is 6 feet 7½ inches tall and weighs over 2,400 lb. The world's largest Belgian Horse was named Brooklyn Supreme, who weighed 3,200 pounds and stood at 19.2 hands. |
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Biggest Snake - Anaconda.
Longest Snake - Python.
The dimensions that have earned the anaconda the title of
king is its total body mass or its weight (the sheer physical bulk
of it). The largest anaconda ever measured was almost 28 feet long
with a girth of 44 inches. She wasn't weighed at the time she was
caught, but scientists estimate that she must have weighed over 500
lbs. The other snake that competes with the anaconda is the Asiatic
Reticulated Python. The python holds the world's record for length
of a snake, with the longest ever measured at 33 feet. Even though
the longest python is longer than the record-holding anaconda, the
girth of the anaconda is far bigger. Anacondas in the jungles of
South America can grow as big around as a grown man! |
