List of heaviest land mammals
Appearance
The heaviest land mammal has a weight up to 10 short tons (9.1 t), the African elephant.[1] This enormous mammal measures approximately 24 feet (7.3 m), and eats 500 pounds (230 kg) of vegetation like grasses and leaves a day. Their two elongated teeth-tusks can grow continuously during their lives and reach about 9 feet (2.7 m) in length. The average walking speed of an elephant is 4.5 miles per hour (7.2 km/h), but they can run at recorded speeds up to, and sometimes exceeding, 15 miles per hour (24 km/h).[2]
Heaviest land mammals
This list is of the heaviest land mammals when including their tusks, horns, etc.
See also
Wikispecies has information related to Mammalia.
References
- ^ ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org;Animals: The Animal Kingdom; Largest Living Animal on Land Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011
- ^ Stanford News Service Stanford News Service Retrieved April 3, 2016
- ^ https://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/bsci338m/Worksheets/Museum.pdf
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- ^ https://books.google.pt/books?id=fQH6tym78sYC&lpg=PT339&ots=w-5C0S5bEF&dq
- ^ https://books.google.pt/books?id=vAZTYvnARJkC&lpg=PA215&ots=6z-smuaVxb&dq
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- ^ https://books.google.pt/books?id=fQH6tym78sYC&lpg=PT339&ots=w-5C0S5bEF&dq
- ^ Meagher, Mary (1986). "Bison bison". Mammalian Species (266): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504019. JSTOR 3504019.
External links
The Wikibook Dichotomous Key has a page on the topic of: Mammalia
- BBC Wildlife Finder – video clips from the BBC's natural history archive
- GlobalTwitcher.com – All species in the world with distribution maps and images
- Paleocene Mammals, a site covering the rise of the mammals, paleocene-mammals.de
- Evolution of Mammals, a brief introduction to early mammals, enchantedlearning.com