Biggest Animals by Category

Me too, totally brainfarted on the bear department.

I never heard it before the 2nd season of The Tick.

Not in New Zealand.

Only just heard of it now.

Judging by the replies, no

Agree. Python worked for reticulated python so why not squid for colossal squid?

This time I got it. Only missed sturgeon.

I tried that too. But I think the Irish Wolfhound is the tallest dog breed, not the largest in terms of weight.

The colossal squid, which still has not been seen alive in its natural habitat, is thought to be even larger than the giant squid (although its tentacles are shorter). The largest known colossal squid was hauled to the surface by fishermen off New Zealand in 2007. It weighed around 1,000 pounds. Unlike the giant squid, whose arms and tentacles only have suckers lined with small teeth, the colossal squid's limbs are also equipped with sharp hooks: some swivelling, others three-pointed. Its body is wider and stouter, and therefore heavier, than that of the giant squid. Colossal squid are believed to have longer mantles than giant squid, although their tentacles are shorter. The squid exhibits abyssal gigantism. The beak of M. hamiltoni is the largest known of any squid, exceeding that of Architeuthis (giant squid) in size and in robustness. So that's the difference between colossal and giant. Architeuthis is easy. It's the giant squid's genus, and is often simply said to mean giant squid.

You mean they have you at their house!

How many kids did you used to have?

I tried Manuel Uribe for largest land carnivore.

Well, there's nothing else that starts with Komodo so I kinda agree. Komodo is also a island in Indonesia, which would kinda be like saying "Sumatran" for a Sumatran tiger :)

Lol beat me to it

A Commodoe Dragon? Very elusive. Usually you only see those the morning after a heavy dinner at PF Chang's. And it's rare that one weighs in at over 3 Courics, much less 366 lbs.

Well oof, that wouldn't work because Komodo is an island in Indonesia and you can't really change that..

Yeah, ligers are gigantic ngl (they grow larger than their parents)

A liger is the hybrid offspring of a lion (male) and a tigress. They grow larger than both of their parents (9.8 - 11 ft in length)

LOL! Now THAT'S the way you register a gripe, people!

lolz

Makes me think of a commodore (64) monitor.... haha I have got some weird images now.. (a monitor with saliva dripping teeth and a long tail..)

Is it a plant then?

Whether an organism is fertile or not has nothing to do with what kingdom it's in.

Hippos are herbivores

Yeah..hippos are herbivorous..

Yeah, a hippo may attack and kill you, but it won't eat you.

To be fair, liberia and burma/myanmar still don't use the metric system either. (I looked it up, didnt know that either and think few do unless they life close. i.e africa or east asia)

But yea, kilograms and (centi)meters should atleast be added alongside

While I agree that the metric system would make more sense, both due to widespread use and the logic of the system itself, I don't think that knowing the specific weights is necessary to find the answers in this quiz.

Biggest animal in the world? Don't need to know how much it weighs, it's a whole lot

Confirmed records: 343 pounds - English Mastiff vs. 210 pounds - St. Bernard. Claims of even bigger dogs exist.

Not sure they accept these requests on the basis of quite how imaginatively you get it wrong.

Yeah, I thought the Andean condor was the largest bird of prey ;-;

Maybe do both, until we can figure this out.

There are only three species of elephant, which take up the top three spots on their list. There are two species of gorilla, which take up the top two spots on their list. Meanwhile, there are eight species of bear, with only the two at the top of their list (the rest beaten out by some of the big cats.) And there are over 500 species of shark, many of which are quite small (some less than a foot long!), so you definitely need to be more specific there.