Animals Weight Comparison | Animal Average Weight Ranking | Heaviest Animals
The blue whale is both the largest and the heaviest animal, but not all of the animals on our list are so obvious.
Many species of whale can weigh as much as 200,000 to 300,000 pounds, and their heart alone weighs more than a car.
Some animals are very large, but not very heavy, due to lighter bones, less fat, and feathers instead of heavy coats of fur.
A heavy animal is generally a big animal, but some big animals aren’t as heavy as a person would suppose. The ostrich, which can grow to nearly 7 feet tall, usually weighs between 198 and 286 pounds. A large adult male dromedary, which may be the same height, can weigh 1320 pounds. So, an animal’s weight has something to do not only with its size but with the way it’s built.
Ostriches are probably lighter than they look because their femurs or long leg bones are hollow. The leg bones of camels are not. The weight of other animals can be determined not just by the density of their bones but by how much fat or blubber they have to carry. With that in mind, here are some of the heaviest animals in the world. Some may not be as heavy or as light as you think!
Heaviest Animals: Polar Bear
This huge and beautiful bear has evolved for life in the frozen north. It has a double coat of fur, including the guard hairs that are transparent but appear snowy white to the human eye. Beneath its fur is black skin and beneath the skin is 4 inches of fat. It has big, furry feet to spread its weight out over thin ice and to help it swim. Its teeth are big, strong, and sharp, perfect for catching and eating seals.
Heaviest Animals: Bovine
These members of the Bovine tribe of subfamily Bovine are the world’s largest cattle. The gaur, found in southern and southeast Asia, is the largest of these cattle, and a large gaur bull sometimes weighs as much as 1.65 tons. The American bison can weigh 1.4 tons, while the European bison, also called the wisent is a bit lighter at 1.1 tons. The savannah-type African buffalo can weigh as much as 1.1 tons, while the forest buffalo weighs half a ton.
Heaviest Animals: Saltwater Crocodile
While the Nile crocodile gets the most press for being a deliberate hunter of human beings, the saltwater crocodile is bigger. It can weigh as much as 1.45 tons to the Nile crocodile’s 1.2 tons, and the 1.2-ton croc was a bit of an outlier. Like the Nile crocodile, the saltwater crocodile will catch and gulp down anything it can handle. This includes emus, monkeys, bats, and birds snatched out of the very air, goats, deer, orangutans, kangaroos, water buffalos, and human beings.
Heaviest Animals: Giraffe
Though not the heaviest animal on earth, the giraffe is the tallest. It can grow to 18 feet, which makes it well adapted to life among the tall trees in the dry savannas and the acacia stands of sub-Saharan Africa. A long, prehensile tongue allows the animal to draw the thorny branches into its mouth, and its teeth snip the branches off.
Heaviest Animals: Elephant Seal
This seal was named for the male’s nose, which inflates during the breeding season and allows its trumpeting roar to be heard far and wide. It was also named for its sheer size. A big male elephant seal can weigh 4 tons and can be 20 feet long, and a bull is about four times the size of a cow. During the mating season, which lasts two months, the bulls fight on the beach, often drawing blood. The victorious bull becomes the beach master and has access to a harem of as many as 100 cows.
Heaviest Animals: Hippopotamus
Its herbivorous diet, barrel-shaped body, and what seems like a laid-back semi-aquatic lifestyle hides the fact that the hippopotamus is one of the most dangerous animals in the world. At up to 4.5 tons, it has no problem using its weight to tip over boats in the water or crushes an annoying human. A set of bone-crushing teeth should not be overlooked either. Other than that, the hippopotamus is a charismatic and needful animal. It does well in zoos, and its flesh is eaten and its hide is used to make leather.
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