Heaviest land animals

Heaviest land animals

Table of Heaviest Terrestrial Animals

The following is a list of the heaviest land animals. The walrus is included as it spends much of its time on land. The African Elephant is not split into its possible separate species of the African Bush Elephant and African Forest Elephant as it is not yet a fully accepted split.

Notes

References

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14556388&dopt=Abstract]
*IUCN African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG): Statement on the Taxonomy of extant Loxodonta (February, 2006).


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