Biggest Animals by Category Quiz

Ligers aren't wild animals and wouldn't be a real animal if it wasn't for hybrid breeding done in zoos. I don't think they should count on these quizzes.

Forgot the polar bear...thinking of animals on the savannah.

Great quiz.

I'm just appalled that only 20% of people got capybara! You hear that name repeated like 20 times, just in 2nd grade.

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

Not in New Zealand.

I think squid should be accepted. I know there might be different-sized varieties, but colossal squid is hard to get.

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

Woohoo 100 percent!! Great Quiz :)

I knew capybera but couldn't spell it. :( I even tried "Speak," which was The Tick's pet capybara's name.

This time I got it. Only missed sturgeon.

I always thought the Irish Wolfhound was historically the largest dog breed.

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

Can anyone tell me the difference between colossal squid, giant squid, and architeuthis?

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.

Yeah I seen it in the museum in Wellington.

Go mastiffs! I have two at my house

You mean they have you at their house!

How many kids did you used to have?

I tried Manuel Uribe for largest land carnivore.

I was a tad disappointed that ROUS wasn't accepted as a correct answer.

Lol beat me to it

Please accept Comodo Dragon...

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.

I always write Komodo with a 'C'. Annoying, but it's a good thing it's not accepted; perhaps this way I will learn to spell it correctly one day.

Fun fact: hybrids of blue whales and fin whales are rare but can actually grow larger than blue whales, and unlike most hybrids they are fully fertile because blue and fin whales have the same diploid number :-)

The hybrid's size is intriguing, because it seems to have a growing capacity more similar to the Blue whale. Immature hybrid specimens have been found to be larger than fully mature fin or blue whales. I know this was noticed in at least one quite old publication: (Cocks, 1887), but sadly they are very rare in general and still being hunted, so there are too few to do a really comprehensive analysis. But in theory they could be the largest animals of all time :-)

It seems 'imprinted genes' play a role in this, much like why Ligers are larger than Tigers.

Very fun quiz. Liger got me though.

If you enjoyed this you might like my fastest animals quiz, sort of in the same vein.

900-pound, non-wild cat? Sounds like Garfield.

I thought a Liger was something that lived only in Napoleon Dynamite's imagination.

It should be mentioned somewhere that this quiz does not include extinct animals.

Wow, surprised king crab wasn't the biggest arthropod, I'm from Alaska and I've seen some huge ones. They really aren't the biggest though, I looked it up.

You should accept Komodo with a C for idiots like me that cant figure out that it starts with a K.

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

By the definition of a species (Darwin) a liger is not an animal because it cannot produce its own offspring making it infertile

I believe Hippopotamus should be the biggest for land carnivore. If you say its an omnivore, so is a brown bear. If you say its not a land animal, neither is the polar bear.