In the world there are a lot of various animals. All of them strongly differ from each other. Some live in the sea, others - on the land. Some eat plants, others are predators. Some of them small, others - huge and heavy.
The heaviest water animalThe biggest and heavy water animal of the whole world by right is the blue whale. Its length can be about 30 meters, and weight begins from 180 tons and more. Such animal has a dark blue color with bluish shades on each side. Heart of a blue whale can weigh about 600 kilograms, and language about 2.5 tons that by the sizes can be compared to an elephant.
The volume of lungs of a blue whale by the sizes exceeds three thousand liters that is an absolute record among all known animals.
Such whales eat tiny organisms which live in the sea and have the name – a krill. In day the blue whale can eat up to 40 million individuals of such organisms. Most often blue whales prefer to keep one by one or to be in couple. Such animals communicate with the echolocation help. The sound which is said at communication blue whales is similar to a sound of the working jet plane and is capable to be carried of enormous distances, it is more than one thousand kilometers.
Females of a blue whale give birth to the cubs once in three years after the previous pregnancy which lasts about a year. The mass of the newborn a kitenka fluctuates within 3 tons.
The blue whale is animal quite peaceful and lost the aggressive abilities that promoted almost full destruction of this look.
The largest and heavy land animalThe African elephant is considered the largest land animal. The animal is characterized by a heavy massive body, a short neck and the big head and also huge ears and thick extremities. The weight of a male of the African elephant can reach 6 tons, length about 7 meters and height slightly more than 3 meters. Females of an animal weigh practically twice less. Their height about 2.5 meters, and length is about 5 meters. Adult individuals of an elephant, because of the big size, most often have no enemies in the native habitat, but small elephant calves quite often are exposed to the blood-thirsty attacks from crocodiles, lions, hyenas and leopards. By the last statistical calculations the number of population of these animals in the wild nature is about 550 thousand individuals. The largest killed animal is the African elephant which was shot in Angola, his weight was more than 12 tons that is a record.