Someone please help me settle this argument!?

Question

I was at a quiz last night, the question was: What is the worlds largest mammal.

I answered blue whale, apparently I was wrong and the answer is giraffe? I dispute this though, as a blue whales Tongue alone is the same size as an elephant?

Surely HEIGHT wise a giraffe is smaller than a whale? I know the whale is extremely long, but on land a whale would be taller than the giraffe? What you think?

Sorry folks, I beg your pardon. It was tallest mammal. I still reckon a whale would be taller than a giraffe?

Answer 1

A blue whale can be 98 feet long. I have not been able to find out how tall it can be. It lives in the ocean.

A giraffe can be 16 to 19 feet tall and is the tallest of the land living mammals.

The quiz must have been looking for land living mammals is all I can guess.

Answer 2

No. Based on your further input -- you lose. The natural state of a Blue Whale is horizontal -- not vertical. If you go by size alone (which you're doing) you could say that the Great Wall of China is the tallest structure on earth, because if you stood it on end, it would stretch into outer space. That doesn't work though. And neither do "tall" Blue Whales. Sorry. You lost fair and square.

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If indeed the question was "largest mammal," (as opposed to "tallest") you were completely hosed. Your answer of 'Blue Whale' is correct.

Answer 3

~~~I dont know why someone would say Giraffe is the Largest Mammal,,,, Its always been a known fact that the Blue Whale is the Larges Mammel on earth. I hope this was a fun fact quiz that you were playing at a friends house and not for school. And if this was a quiz for school,,,well I would be very proud of you if you found true facts on the computer, print them out and give to your teacher,,,,hmmm,,,giraffe ey,,,,would like to know where they got their info from,,,,,,anyway,,, YOU are correct,,,,Blue Whale is right.

Answer 4

Yes your right, the Blue Whale is the largest mammal and possibly the largest animal of any kind to have lived on earth. Apparantly a 33-metre long, 190 tonne whale has been seen before.
A giraffe??!! What??! Doesnt even compare, sure they didnt say tallest?

Answer 5

You're completely right.
the giraffe is the tallest LAND mammal. I couldn't say for sure, but I reckon if a giraffe stood by a beached whale, the whale would be taller.

Answer 6

you my friend are correct. the largest water mammal is a blue whale. go to your question and ask y what is the largest mammal in the world it comes up blue whale. also a few dolphins and sharks have been known to be very Hugh. so the giraffe was a wrong answer. make sure you print out the correct answer and get it in the proper hands as you are CORRECT. THANKS KAT

Answer 7

If the question was "largest" them blue whale gets in on volume and mass.

If the question was "tallest" then its giraffe.

Answer 8

You can't settle an argument until you define your terms. What does "biggest" mean? Heaviest? Blue Whale, of course! Longest? Blue Whale again! Tallest? Giraffe. Usually, "biggest", if undefined, means "heaviest". But not always. The "biggest" professional football player probably means "heaviest"; but the "biggest" professional basketball player probably means "tallest".

Answer 9

I agree with you! The world's tallest animal is the giraffe. the worlds largest animal is the blue whale. Whoever wroter the question must have met the world's tallest animal. or it was a miss print.

Answer 10

Well, i certianly know that the blue whale is the largest Mammal, but prehaps they were refering to the tallest LAND mammal. I that was the case, it is easy to see how the question was misleading.
By the way, you never said weather you won or lost.