Top 10 Biggest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Ostrich

The Ostrich is the largest living bird having a height of 2.7 m and a weight of 156 kg.

Chinese Giant Salamander

The Chinese giant salamander is the largest living amphibian having a weight of 64 kg and 1.83 m length.

Whale Shark

The Whale shark is the largest living fish having a length of 13.6 m and weighing in at 22,000 kg.

Colossal Squid

The Colossal Squid is the largest invertebrate which attains the maximum size of 14m long. The largest recorded size of colossal squid was measured 10 m long with a weight of 494 kg.

Goliath Beetle

The Goliath beetle is the heaviest insect having a weight of 115g and a length of 11.5cm.

Source: http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/top_10_lists/biggest/

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Top 10 Biggest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Animals take many shapes and forms and come in a great diversity of sizes. Some may think the biggest animal is the heaviest, others the longest, or the tallest. Whichever way you measure size there’s no denying that some animals are absolutely huge. Here is a selection of the biggest animals on earth.

(These animals are not in order of big size. According to  the natural, animals are born with different size, this content just show about the type of animal which is far bigger than the other type of its genres. For example: Goliath Beetle is far bigger than other beetles, but not bigger than other general whales...)

Blue Whale

The Blue whale is the largest animal of all time, reaching a weight of about 180 tonnes and a length of 30m. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as a car.

African Elephant

The largest living land animal is the African elephant which can weigh up to 6,350kg and a length of 10.6 m from trunk to tail with a shoulder height of 4.2m.

Brown Bear

The brown bear and polar bear are the largest living land carnivores having the weight of 1 ton and height of 3m.

Saltwater Crocodile

The largest living reptile is saltwater crocodile with a length of 5 m. The largest recorded crocodile had a weight of 1,900 kg and 6.3 m length. 

Giraffe

Having 5.8 m height the giraffe is considered as the tallest living animal on earth. Its weight is approximately 2,000 kg.

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Top 10 Strongest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Gorilla

A gorilla can lift something 2,000kg (as heavy as 30 humans), over 10 times their body weight.

African Elephant

In brute strength, elephants are the strongest mammals and the strongest land animals. African elephants can weigh up to 6,350kg and they can carry up to 9,000kg, the weight of 130 adult humans.

Leafcutter Ant

Tiny leafcutter ants can lift and carry in their jaws something 50 times their own body weight of about 500mg. That’s the same as a human lifting a truck with its teeth.

Rhinoceros Beetle

Rhinoceros Beetles can lift something 850 times their own weight. To put this into perspective, if a human had the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, it would be able to lift a 65 ton object. If the mighty elephant had equal strength to the rhinoceros beetle it would be able to carry 850 elephants on its back.

Dung Beetle

A dung beetle is not only the world’s strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight. They can pull 1,141 times their own body weight. This is the equivalent of an average person pulling six double-decker buses full of people. Now that’s strong!

Source: http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/top_10_lists/strongest/

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Top 10 Strongest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Many animals possess strength that even the strongest humans could only dream about.

Different animals have different kinds of strength. Some have pure brute strength and are capable of lifting, dragging, carrying or pulling enormous weights. Others may be much smaller yet have immense power compared to their size. Here are 10 of the world’s strongest animals. Prepare to be amazed...

Eagle

An eagle is the strongest bird, able to lift something four times its own body weight during flight.

Anaconda

An anaconda snake can squeeze something the same as its own 250kg body weight to death.

Grizzly Bear

When it comes to pure strength the Grizzly bear can lift over 500kg, 0.8 times its body weight.

Ox

An ox can pull and carry something 900kg, 1.5 times its body weight across rugged terrain.

Tiger

A tiger can carry something 550kg, twice its own body weight ten feet up a tree.

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Top 10 Fastest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Marlin

Marlin can swim at 80km/h, followed by Wahoo at 78km/h and Tunny at 74km/h.

Cheetah

The cheetah is designed for running down fast prey and can reach a top speed of 113km/h, three times faster than the top running speed for a human which is about 36km/h.

Pronghorn Antelope

The Pronghorn antelope is the second fasted land animal and at 98km/h can out-sprint predators.

Blue Wildebeest 

The Blue Wildebeest, Springbok and Thompson’s gazelle can all run at about 80km/h which almost exactly matches the speed of a lion.

Brown Hare

The Brown hare’s long back legs enable them to reach speeds of 77km/h, the same speed as their predator the red fox.

Source: http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/top_10_lists/fastest/

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Top 10 Fastest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Some animals are perfectly designed to be the ultimate speed machines.

Some of these fly through the air, others swim through water and some run on land. Most of the fastest animals are birds so our list below includes a selection of the fastest of all these different types of animals. Here are 10 of the fastest animals in the world.

Peregrine Falcon

The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird, and in fact the fastest animal on the planet, when in its hunting dive, the stoop, in which it soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 322km/hr. It reaches horizontal cruising speeds of up to 90 kph.

Spine-tailed Swift

The Spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird in powered flight, with a top recorded speed of 171km/h.

Frigate Bird

The frigate bird speed of 153km/h is helped by having the largest wingspan to body weight ratio of any bird and they are able to stay aloft for more than a week.

Spur-winged Goose

The Spur-winged goose is the world’s largest goose and flies at 142km/h.

Sail Fish

The sail fish is easily the world’s fastest fish, speeding through the water at 110km/h.

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Top 10 Jumping Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

The Kangaroo Rat

The Kangaroo Rat can jump 45 times its own body length. They are longest jumper among all mammals compared to body size.

Froghopper

Froghoppers can jump 70 times their own body height. They’re the 2nd highest jumper among animals compared to body size. However, froghoppers generate the most force per body weight of any animal when jumping - more than 400 times their body weight. They initially accelerate at 4,000 metres per second per second and in a millisecond reach a take-off velocity of four metres per second.

Jumping Spider

The Jumping Spider can jump 100 times its own body length. Imagine a person who can jump as long as 2 jumbo jets.

Tree Frog

Tree Frogs can jump 150 times their own body length. They are 2nd longest jumping among animals compared to body size.

Flea

It is usually claimed that the best jumper in the world is the Flea. They are longest and highest jumper among animals compared to body size. Fleas can jump 220 times their own body length and 150 times their own body height. If we were to scale up a flea to our size it would be like us jumping nearly 400m in distance whilst jumping over a 250m high building! Now that’s a big jump!

Source: http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/top_10_lists/jumpers/

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