2006-10-07 00:21:14 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
The Blue Whale
2006-10-07 00:29:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world's largest living mammal? That would be the Blue Whale. The largest living land mammal would be the Indian Elephant.
The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. At up to 30 metres (98 feet) in length and 177 metric tonnes (196 short tons) or more in weight, it is believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth.
Blue Whales were abundant in most oceans around the world until the beginning of the twentieth century. For the first 40 years of that century they were hunted by whalers almost to extinction. Hunting of the species was outlawed by the international community in 1966. A 2002 report estimated there were 5,000 to 12,000 Blue Whales worldwide located in at least five groups. More recent research into the Pygmy subspecies suggest this may be an under-estimate. Before whaling the largest population (202,000 to 311,000) was in the Antarctic but now there remain only much smaller (around 2,000) concentrations in each of the North-East Pacific, the Antarctic, and the Indian Ocean. There are two more groups in the North Atlantic and at least two in the Southern Hemisphere.
2006-10-07 02:06:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Blue Whale is the largest mammal.
2006-10-07 00:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by Oren G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. At up to 30 metres (98 feet) in length and 177 metric tonnes (196 short tons) or more in weight, it is believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth.
Please see the webpage for more details and images on Blue whale.
2006-10-07 02:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Elephant Whale
2006-10-07 00:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Largest Land Mammal
Largest mammal on land is the male African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) standing on average 3-3.7 m (9-12 ft) high at the shoulder and weighing 4-7 tonnes. The largest specimen ever recorded was shot in Mucusso, Angola, on November 7, 1974. Lying on its side, this elephant measured 4.16 m (13 ft 8 in) in a projected line from the highest point of the shoulder to the base of the forefoot, indicating a standing height of about 3.96 m (13 ft). Its weight was worked out to be 12.24 tonnes.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=51172
2006-10-07 00:30:40 · answer #6 · answered by Spongebob 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Blue whale
2006-10-07 00:22:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Specifically it is the Blue Whale.
2006-10-07 00:23:11 · answer #8 · answered by Dave 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A whale
2006-10-07 00:22:13 · answer #9 · answered by rswdew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blue whale.
2006-10-07 00:22:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋