On our planet, home to a huge number of animals.The biggest animal , living in our time - it is the blue whale, whose length exceeds 30 meters, and weighs up to 130 tons.It is surprising that a third of the length of the head.
most interesting thing in this animal is not weight and height, and that the whale - it is not a fish, but a mammal.A baby whale is not displayed as a fish out of eggs, and born alive, and some time is right next to his mother.Just like other mammals, whales suckle their young own milk, which is 10 times more nutritious cow.
The largest animal on earth is very different from the aquatic inhabitants.In blue whale completely different structure of the skeleton, brain, circulatory system and internal organs.Whales are under the skin of the scalp, which is filled with fat and retains heat.Fat layer in the adult animal, reaches a thickness of 50 centimeters, so blue whale belongs to the species of thermophilic.Whale breathes easy, he had no gills.
No one would deny that the biggest animal must consume large amounts of food.Whale diet consists mainly of shrimp and shellfish, which it absorbs without chewing.
Kit is a valuable game animals.Whalebone, fat, liver, and skin - this is a very important raw material for the medical industry.Whalers many countries almost exterminated the species of animals, but now under the protection of whales taken, and successfully reproduce.At the moment, the hunt for the biggest animal is prohibited.
largest animals in the world
there were more than fifty species of animals that can boast of their weight or height.This list also includes animals that live on land.
of ground dwellers the biggest animal - is the African elephant.The maximum weight of an elephant is 13 000 kg.It feeds on the animal tree branches, leaves and other herbaceous vegetation.
There is another kind of elephant - an Asian, it's almost half the size categories of weight and height than its African counterparts.The maximum weight of the Asian elephant reaches - 5200 kg, and height - 5.95 m.
Elephants these two species differ from each other.In Asian elephant tusks have only male, and his ears are elongated and pointed down.At the African elephant's ears are much larger in size and reach up to 1.5 meters in length.
At present, all kinds of elephants are endangered, so they brought in "Red Book".
second in size after the elephant land animal - the white rhino.This mammal is large.The weight of an adult male is sometimes exceed 4 - 4.5 tons.The color of the animal - a gray, slightly lighter than the black rhino species.The main difference from the white rhino black rhino - wide flat upper lip.
Rhinos usually live in small groups, but sometimes you can meet herds, consisting of 17-19 animals.Groups of animals in most cases consist of females and children, which are also half-grown, self-eating birds.
Currently in the world there are 11 000 head of white rhino.
is impossible to determine exactly what it is the largest animal in the world, because the list of such animals is very high.It includes not only the whales, elephants, rhinos, but also bears, pythons and many other animals.
Some of them fall into the category of endangered.In different countries of the world have established national parks, the purpose of which - the salvation of rare animal species from extinction.Due to the zoo, some kinds of rare animals can continue his race, but in captivity it happens very rarely.
unique animals on the planet is low, so people need to take care of them, the descendants have the opportunity to see these types of animals live, real-life, not only in pictures from the past, or in the museums.
