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  2. Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia

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    The largest dinosaurs, and the largest animals to ever live on land, were the plant-eating, long-necked Sauropoda. The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin. It is 12–13.27 m (39.4 ...

  3. List of heaviest land mammals - Wikipedia

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    The heaviest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which has a weight of up to 10.1 t (11.1 short tons).It measures 10–13 ft at the shoulder and consumes around 230 kg (500 lb) of vegetation a day.

  4. Largest organisms - Wikipedia

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    The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, males weigh about 6.0 tonnes (13,200 lb) on average. [24] The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. It was a male measuring 10.67 metres (35.0 ft) from trunk to tail and 4.17 metres (13. ...

  5. List of largest mammals - Wikipedia

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    The longest-bodied species, and tallest of all living land animals, is the giraffe (Giraffa sp.), measuring up to 5.8 m (19 ft) tall to the top of the head, and despite being relatively slender, reaching a top weight of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb). [7]

  6. List of largest land carnivorans - Wikipedia

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    (Top) 1 List. 2 See also. 3 References. 4 Bibliography. Toggle the table of contents. List of largest land carnivorans. ... 1.10: North America: 5 Tiger: Panthera ...

  7. List of extant megaherbivores - Wikipedia

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    The African bush elephant, also known as the Savanna elephant is one of three members of the family Elephantidae, in which it is the largest member. [7] They are native to a large part of sub-Saharan Africa, [8] and are characterized by their large size, huge ears, long trunk with two finger-like processes and large ivory tusks. [9]: 124 [10]

  8. Top 10 Largest Landowners in the World - AOL

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    The people and organizations who own the most land in the world own millions -- and in the case of the top landowner -- billions of acres of land. Many of the top 10 largest landowners are...

  9. Megafauna - Wikipedia

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    The African bush elephant (foreground), Earth's largest extant land animal, and the Masai ostrich (background), one of Earth's largest extant birds. In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies widely, though a common threshold is ...