What is the biggest animal?
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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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In terms of the number of animals housed (rather than land area), the largest zoos are believed to be (starting from the largest) - the Berlin Zoo, the Bronx Zoo, the San Diego Zoo and the Pretoria Zoo.
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WHALE SHARK:\n\nbiggest shark and biggest fish \n\nit isn't a whale (whales are mammals, not fish) \n\ngrow to 45 feet long and 30,000 pounds, but average about 25 feet long \n\nfilters plankton from the water using "gill rakers" \n\nBASKING SHARK:\n\nsecond largest shark (about 30 feet long and 8,000 pounds) \n\nfilters plankton from the water using "gill rakers"\n\n\nGREAT WHITE SHARK:  \nThird largest shark on average\n\nmore attacks on people than any other type. \n\naverages 12 feet long and 3,000 pounds. \n\nunlike most sharks, it can lift its head out of the water.
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The largest dinosaur currently known is Argentinosaurus, from the Cretaceous of Argentina (strangely enough).\n\nIt was a huge, sauropod dinosaur (brontosaur-type, skinny at one end, thick in the middle, and then skinny again at the other end).\n\nEstimates of its size based on the morphology of the bones, and comparing it with other species of sauropod indicate that Argentinosaurus was up to 120 feet long, and around 100 tons in weight.\n\nTyrannosaurus was one of the larger carnivorous dinosaurs around (some, such as Spinosaurus and the recently discovered Mapusaurus were even bigger), but these carnosaurs didn't get above about 8 tons in weight.\n\nThe largest critter what ever lived is the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which can be up to 150 tons, and happily still survives today.
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A large endangered mammal that is notorious for its poor eyesight. The largest can weight up to 1,500 kg and be as high as 1.60 m. Despite its mass it is a fast animal that can run to speeds as high as 60 km/h.
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besides myself,\nthe largest penis belongs to the blue whale estimated at over 6.5 feet. accurate measurements are difficult to take because the whale's erect length can only be observed during mating.
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the biggest would be the Pacific Reef...it's actually a group of atols streching along the pacific ocean. it's so huge that during low tide, the atols would appear to be a group of islands.\n\nsecond biggest would be the Great Barrier Reef..
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come on peace that is not the answer.\nGiraffe are the tallest animals in the world. Males can reach as high as 6 meters (19 feet) tall and female giraffe can measure up to5 meters -17 feet) tall. Their neck accounts for the added height and is by itself approximately 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length and can weigh almost 227 kilograms (500 pounds). \n\nFUNNY THIGS :\ntallest man in the world reaches his belley.\nhe needs telescope to see his leg.\nand most of all, \ndamm...he is taller than me.\ni cant belive it.
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The term "largest" needs clarifying as the tallest may not be the heaviest, longest etc.\n\nHowever I would suggest the Carribou (?) \n\nSurely the Grizzly lives in the mixed forests of N America and is not native to the pure pine forests of Norway etc.
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We don't yet have the technology to answer this question.\n\nEDIT: To dogoutburner: That's the largest in our galaxy. We have no idea the largest in the universe.
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The biggest dinosaur is probably ultrasauros. We only have a few bones of this late Jurassic (140 million years ago) plant-eater from Colorado, but the bones show an animal who was six-stories high and may have weighed more than 50 tons. A four-legged plant-eating dinosaur found recently in Argentina, argentinasaurus, may have been even heavier than ultrasauros. If it was a brachiosaur like ultrauros then it probably was the biggest, but if it was a titanosaur, another kind of big plant-eater common in South America, it wouldn't have been so bulky.
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Largest blue whale, about the size of a small car.The smallest mammalian heart would belong to the estruscan shrew I would guess
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define largest, by weight, lenght
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As far as I know, the Giant Mekong Catfish mentioned already holds the current record for largest living fresh water fish.\n\nOther giants of the fresh water realm include the South American giant arapaima (Arapaima gigas), or pirarucu.  There used to be specimens of this giant fish up to 15 feet long and several hundred kilos in weight, but they have been fished out, and individuals over 8 feet in length are very rare now.\n\nThe beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) of Russia at one time may have outweighed even the Mekong catfish.  Archaeological excavations of fish caught in the 14th century show that as many as one fifth of the beluga sturgeon caught back then were between 4 and 6 meters in length (12 to 18 feet).  The largest catch recorded was an individual 6 meters long and 3200 kg (7000 lbs).  Other evidence indicates that historically, this species could actually reach 10 meters (30 feet) in length!  Sadly, overfishing and other factors have reduced the numbers and average size of this slow-growing fish, and most of them now only reach 2 meters or less in size.
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The tallest mammal is the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), found on the African savanna. The tallest specimen ever recorded was a 5.8-m (19-ft) male named George, who was received at Chester Zoo, UK, in 1959. George was orginally from Kenya. On average, mature giraffe males grow to a height of around 5.5 m (18 ft). Their long necks possess no more than the usual seven vertebrae found in most mammals, but each one is greatly elongated.\n\n The remains of the tallest dinosaur, named Sauroposeidon, reveal this beast stood at a height of 18 m (60 ft) and weighed some 60 tonnes (59 tons). Certain vertebra measured up to 1.2 m (4 ft) long. Amazingly, this powerful creature's bones have survived the 110 million years since it last walked the Earth during the Cretaceous period. The bones were discovered in Oaklahoma in 1994. The length of its neck is about a third larger than the Brachiosaurus, its nearest competitor, whose height reached 12 m (39.4 ft).\n\n The world's tallest living tree is the Stratosphere Giant measuring 112.7 m (370 ft) as of July 2004. This coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) was discovered by Chris Atkins (USA) in August 2000 in the Rockefeller Forest of the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA.\n\nThe precise location of the giant tree is always kept secret by the Park Rangers in case enthusiastic tree fans accidentally damage its fragile environment. The second tallest tree living, known as The Federation Giant, measures 112 m (368 ft) and also lives at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
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The biggest cat in the world is the sibrian tiger - this tiger is a northern sibrian(Russan) sub-species and adult males average 10ft in length - they weight 584 lb in the wild - the largest ever was 813 lb - the Siberian tiger is the Largest Living big cat -\nstatictics 280kg male - go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/19.shtml for uptodate information from the bbc - as the Liger is NOT found in nature it is not regarded as the largest big cat
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That is not an exactly true statement. One of the most powerful animals for its size is the ant. Some birds and firs are much more ferocious then the big carnivores. Often people say their favorites are the big carnivores because of their perceptions of themselves and how they see others.