At the answer to a question of the biggest in fauna such giant as an elephant will come to much to mind, however this giant, actually, ranks second only honourable, considerably conceding in the weight and the sizes to a marine mammal - a blue (blue) whale.
Blue whale - the hugest animal on the planet
The blue whale is really huge being. He is the biggest not only from recent, but also from all ever living on our planet. For example, he is twice heavier, than a brachiosaur - the largest of the dinosaurs living on the planet Earth. If to compare a blue whale and the African elephant, then the first is 5-6 times heavier.Dimensions and mass of a blue whale really strike: its length can reach 30 meters (that approximately corresponds to height of the 10-storey house), but such copies are considered as especially large, the average whale has in length of 22-25 m. The weight of an adult individual is up to 125-150, and even 180 tons! Only one language of a mammal has weight from 2.5 to 4 (at large individuals) tons. The weight of heart of a blue whale can reach ton (it, however, is 2-3 times less, than at zubaty whales), and the volume of lungs reaches 3 thousand liters. A blue whale – rather slender animal. Length of his body considerably dominates over width. About a quarter of length of a body is the share of the head. Blue whales live practically in all World Ocean, at the same time northern and southern subspecies can be met in cold waters more often, and dwarfish (very conditional name, it not much concedes in the sizes and weight to the fellows) – in warmer. At the beginning of the 20th century the number of blue whales contained about 200-300 thousand according to different data, in a consequence in connection with massive destruction of an animal was reduced many times over. In the 60th years of the 20th century the hunting for this look was completely forbidden. Now, besides, there is no consensus concerning quantity of the blue whales living in the World Ocean. According to their different sources is from 1.5 to 15 thousand.
The biggest on the land
The biggest overland animal is the African savanna elephant. The male in length can reach 3.5 m (a female a little less) weighing up to 6 tons and height about 3.5 m. The size of tusks of an animal can reach 2.5 m, the weight of 45 kg. Molars of an elephant also have considerable weight - about 5 kg everyone. The African elephant considerably exceeds on dimensions and mass of the Indian (Asian) fellow. And here the highest being on Earth the giraffe by right is considered. The adult individual has growth to 5 and more meters, at the same time length a part of a body of this artiodactyl mammal is the neck (its length can reach 2 m). The weight of an animal fluctuates within 600 kg - 2 t. Females lower and weigh less males. Length of a step of a giraffe is 6-8 m.