If all the giraffes and elephants were extinct what would be the tallest land mammal in the world?
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I'm guessing a Bactrian Camel
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The average giraffe's skull is about 70 cm long, or just over two feet.
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I suppose all eutherian mammals should be considered higher, (excluding metatherian and protherian). Any other division would be very skewed ,a hypothetical elephant looking for higher mammals would view evoloutionary history in terms of proboscitude ;pthus considering all mammals with larger noses then average as 'higher'
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We thought we'd read somewhere that giraffes did not have voice boxes and weren't capable of producing any vocalizations, but we decided to search the Net and see if this was true. We typed "giraffes make noise" into the Yahoo! search box and looked to see what we could rustle up. \nAlthough we did find a page or two that claimed the animal makes no noise at all, we found many more zookeepers, veterinarians, and other animal experts who debunked this popular misconception. On a page from Discovery Magazine.com, a kids' magazine devoted to science, a young reader echoed your question. The resident expert consulted with a zoo vet and learned that although giraffes are generally quiet animals, they can make a bleating sound, similar to that of a young calf or sheep. \n\nA page from the Indianapolis Zoo confirmed this fact, and stated that giraffes can also make a "low, fluttering sound." Yet another zoo source says that while giraffes don't often make noise, "they are capable of frighteningly loud grunts and roars if they feel threatened." \n\nApparently, the belief that giraffes make no noise is simply a tall tale -- the animals can make a number of sounds. \n\nIf you are looking for some fascinating, and true, giraffe facts, here are a few: \n\nGiraffes are the tallest land animal and can grow up to 18 feet tall. \nThe giraffe's neck can be 6 feet long, and its tongue can stretch 20 inches. \nGiraffes give birth standing up, so the baby giraffe enters the world with a drop to the ground. \nEach animal's coat has a unique pattern, much like human fingerprints. \nAnd we're not stretching the truth!
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The largest is the Andean Condor.\n\nThe highest flyer is Ruppell's Griffon Vulture - it's 7 miles up!!!
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Blue whale. \nScientific name: Balaenoptera musculus.\nSize:30 metres (100 feet) in length. \nWeight:140 tonnes or more. \nIt is believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived.
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Giraffe and the camel
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You have to define what biggest means. The longest is probably the siphonore, a relative of the jellyfish, it can stretch to nearly 1 mile in length.  The Brachiosaur was one of the largest dinosaurs and while very large pales in comparision to the Blue Whale in weight.\n\nSo, you first have to decide: Length (siphonophore), Weight (Blue Whale), or height (Brachiosaur)\n\nBlue whales, found in all the oceans of the world, are true leviathans, stretching as long as 100 feet and weighing as much as 200 tons. (A Brachiosaurus, perhaps the largest dinosaur, weighed an estimated 50 tons.) The Brachiosaur with neck outsretched could be at tall as 55 feet.
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Elephants have the longest gestation of all mammals. Pregnancy lasts about 22 months.
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The largest brain in the animal kingdom is that of a sperm whale (as much as six times the size of a human brain). The largest land animal brains are in elephants.
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I think one potential source of your confusion is the fact that there was in fact more than one mammoth species.\n\nThe most famous mammoth is the so called woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), but there were others such as the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), Jefferson's mammoth (Mammuthus jeffersoni), Channel Island dwarf mammoth (Mammuthus exilis), southern mammoth (Mammuthus meridionalis), steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii), and the Imperial mammoth (Mammuthus imperator).  And those are just the North American varieties.  There were more in Asia and Europe.\n\nThe woolly mammoth was actually slightly smaller than the Asian elephant (which is actually more closely related to the mammoths than the African elephants are).\n\nHowever other species, like the Columbian mammoth, were much larger.  The largest specimen of the Columbian mammoth from the La Brea tar pits was 12 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed about 10 tons - much larger than the largest African elephants today.\n\nSome species were much, much smaller, especially those that inhabited isolated islands.  The Channel Islands dwarf mammoth  was only four to eight feet tall.  \n\nHopefully this helps to clear up some of the confusion.\n\nUPDATE:\n\nYes, the male African elephant does average about 12 feet at the shoulder.  This is one of the problems with taking just one measuer to determine "size".  The proportions of mammoths and African elephants are slightly different, and the way they hold their heads are different, so a simple shoulder measure, or measure to the top of the head doesn't tell the whole story.  There are also differences in the length of the legs that make a considerable difference when comparing height and weight.  Mammoths tend to have relatively stubby legs, while the African elephants are longer limbed, almost rangy in comparison.\n\nFor a really big elephant, there is also the extinct Miocene proboscideans the Deinotheres, which may have been 15 to 18 feet at the shoulder.
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almost exectly half  a metre, some times a litle bit less .sometimes a little bit more.depending on the age and the region\nthe elephant is fatter and longer(one metre) even though the girafe is taller\nso this goes to prove that the lenth of the neck does not determine the length of the penis.
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The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth.  Its heart is the size of a Volkswagen Bug, its tail is as wide as the wingspan of a small aircraft, and some of its blood vessels are so wide that you could swim through them.  \n\nIt is also considered the loudest animal by decibel measure, but since sound travels better than water than through air, perhaps a land animal (i.e. african elephant) deserves the title.
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Believe it or not, the hippopotamus's closest living relatives on Earth are the whales. \n\nThe exact evolutionary path isn't known, but the ancestor of both whales and hippopotami was definitely a land animal, might have been comfortable in water, and was probably quite a bit more similar to a modern hippo than to a modern whale.\n\nI'll go beyond the scientific evidence for a moment to say that it's not that hard to imagine...  Think of a hippo-like species (already partly aquatic, with  only nostrils and eyes above the water most of the time) evolving to spend more and more time in the water.  Eventually there's no more need for land at all, but there's still a need for air...
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Hmmm ..... not at all sure what you mean .... do you mean body parts that start with the letter f?   A giraffe doesn't really have "feet" - they have hooves .... you might need to explain what you mean to get better answers.
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The HIGHEST is Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.\n\nPu'u Wekiu (in Hawaii, USA) is the tallest as it starts from the ocean.\nit is 4208 metres high
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Check out the Honey Badger, they are without doubt the hardest mammals on this planet. They were even listed in the guiness book of records as the most fearless. Check out the link.