Top 20 fattest animals on earth
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Ultimate fact presents – Top 20 fattest animals on earth. Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who was one of the fattest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb. In the wildlife, animals become obese as well and a […]
Ultimate fact presents – Top 20 fattest animals on earth. Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who was one of the fattest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb. In the wildlife, animals become obese as well and a proper diet is being maintained according to that! Many species of animals certainly do overeat, for various reasons. We will present to you the surprising weights of some of the biggest animals known to man. Here are the top 20 fattest animals on earth.
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Elephant seals
Elephant seals can get up to 8,800 pounds. With an ideal of 40% body fat, as per Discovery magazine, the elephant seal is one of the most relatively fat animals on the planet. While on land, elephant seals use up fat stores that they replenish out at sea, improving their buoyancy so they can spend less energy swimming and more time foraging. They can also weigh up to 4.5 tons and be up to 20 feet tall.
Southern elephant seals feed exclusively at sea. The main sources of food are fish and squid. Prey is captured both near the surface and very deep underwater. The seals have been known to eat bottom dwelling fish from the ocean’s darkest depths.
Brown bears
They are oftentimes considered obese animal. Fitting the definition of obese at times, hibernating brown bears pack on the pounds during the summer months so they can stay warm during the winter months. As per National Geographic, these creatures typically weigh around 800 pounds.
Every year, Alaska’s Katmai National Park holds its Fattest Bear competition, where fans can vote for which bear gained the most amount of weight that season. 2018’s winner was 409 Beadnose.
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Oshine the orangutan
Swing from tree to tree? You have got to be kidding. Oshine, the overweight orangutan loved gorging on sweets, jelly and marshmallows at home in South Africa. She had been raised since a baby by a well-meaning couple with no clue about her regular diet – leaving her double her natural weight at over 15st. But now keepers at her new home of Monkey World in Dorset have put the lass on a diet of fruit and veg.
Roly Poly the hedgehog
Roly Poly the hedgehog so fat he’s been put on a diet after doctors declared him officially obese. Tipping the scales at a whopping 2kg. Over three times the size of a normal hedgehog the animal is so fat it can no longer roll into a ball. Mammoth Roly ballooned in size after gorging on cat food left out by a well-meaning retired couple. The couple from Minehead, Somerset found the animal in their garage late last year wrapped up in an old Father Christmas jacket.
The goldfish
This fat goldfish is off the scale! Thanks to a problem with his intestines, the blubbery bubble-blower could barely stay afloat as he piled on the pounds. YouTube user Tipownsyou uploaded the crazy clip of his eight-year-old pet in January 2007. He has since come back to update the video with the sad news that the little fella has died.
African Camel
Contrary to the popular myth, camels’ humps are used to store fat, not water. According to Live Science, humps can store up to 80 pounds of fat as an emergency food supply in case the camel can’t find sustenance for a long period of time. When fully grown, these creatures typically weigh over 1,300 pounds.
Hippopotamus
A hippopotamus can eat about 150 pounds of grass in a single night. A hippo can eat up to 150 pounds of grass per night. These water-lovers spend most hours of their day submerged and they leave the water at dusk to feast on grass, according to National Geographic. Their weight can be up to 8,000 pounds.
Bandit the raccoon
When Pepper Klitsch saved an abandoned baby raccoon back in May 1996, she feared he wouldn’t last the week. But the animal rescue expert, from Pennsylvania, USA, was in for a BIG
surprise – ‘Bandit’ thrived in her care and began to gain weight fast. Born without a thyroid essential for controlling the metabolism of food – Bandit broke the world record for fattest raccoon four times. Just before his death in 2006, he weighed 5st 9lbs – six times the size of an
average raccoon and also the fattest animal ever.
The Fat Moth
Moths and their larvae have long been known to Aboriginal Australians as fat-rich snacks. Kidney specialist nurse Lesley Salem worked with a team to produce a guide to the nutritional values of bush tucker to aid in nutritional advice. The report describes how the larvae of the cossid moth, aka the witchetty grub,is 20% fat while the adult bogong moth is almost 39% fat. But the animal that is proportionally the fattest of all might not be what you’re expecting. In Yellowstone National Park, grizzly bears are known to gorge themselves on army cutworm moths before winter sets in.
Goliath Beetle
The titan beetle is the largest known beetle in the Amazon rain forest and one of the largest insect species in the world. They can grow up to 6.6 inches in length. This gargantuan insect has mandibles that can easily snap a pencil in half, and reportedly they can rip into human flesh, too.
But the fattest one is hiding in the undergrowth of African tropical forests, Goliath Beetles take the top spot as the heaviest insect in the world! They weigh up to 3.5 ounces which is 100 g, grow to a length of 4.5 inches or 11.5 cm and are brown/black/white in color.
Chinese Salamander
The Chinese Giant Salamander is the largest and also the fattest animal living amphibian, weighing around 66 lb or 30 kg though they can reach 132 lbs or 60 kg, and growing to a length of 6 ft long. Having changed little from their ancestors, they are known as living fossils, but despite their fascinating nature, they are endangered and rare in the wild.
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Fat Pig
A pig weighing 961 kilos has won Taiwan’s fattest pig contest, making it the biggest on the island for 200 years. Farmer Chen Cheng Sung raised the monster porker in his village. But after a ceremony the one-and-a-half year old pig was slaughtered to be eaten by Chen’s family and friends.
Another “huge but healthy pig”, who has recently been on a diet, now weighs almost four times heavier than a normal hog at an impressive 925lbs. His three year-old mating partner meanwhile, tips the scales at an astonishing 670lbs.
African Crocodile
Crocodile is the largest reptiles in the world. They live in tropical regions around the globe. The length of an adult crocodile ranges between 6 and 25 ft and has weight up to 2300 lbs. Crocodiles can live without food for months. In such cases, they use energy from the body which stored in the form of fat.
White Rhinoceros
White rhinoceros are the second largest land animal on Earth. They found in different regions across Africa. White rhinos are also the largest of four living species of rhinos in the world. White rhinos have a body length up to 4 meters and weigh between 3600 to 7800 lbs. They have have a large skull and two horns. The front horn can grow up to a length of 1.5 meters.
Asian Guar
Asian Guars are the most abundant species of cattle in the world. They are native to South Asia. Asian Guar has a body length between 2.5 and 3.5 meters and weighs up to 2500 lbs. Asian Guars have a massive head and sharp horns. The male Guars are 30 percent larger than the females. Asian Guars found in grasslands and evergreen forests. Both male and female Asian Guars have a horn which measures up to 1 meter in length.
Giraffe
Giraffes are the tallest mammals in the world. They found in large numbers in South Africa. They measure up to 20 feet in height and weigh between 2800 and 3500 lbs. In facts, the legs of giraffes are much taller than an average, adult human that is 6 feet. These sturdy, tall legs help giraffes to eat leaves from treetops. They can also run at a maximum speed of 50 km per hour.
African Elephant
This biggest animals were also helped by the fact that they became so big. Being large opens up a whole new world of advantages: it deters predators and when food resources and water are scarce, a large body can store more fat and water, and a larger gut can digest food more efficiently.
An African elephant is the heaviest, living land animal in the world. An adult African elephant can weigh to 14000 lbs. and up to 4 meters in height. They have large ears and tusks than other species of elephants. They live in rainforests of West and Central Africa.
The Cat
Obesity is increasing in modern cats with great speed? In the United States, approx. 55%, around 47 million cats are obese or overweight. Now these days, obesity has become a serious health condition in cats which is the root cause of many fatal diseases including non-allergic skin conditions, diabetes, liver disease, and even urinary tract disorders.
Generally, cats can weight anywhere from ten to about fifteen pounds, some of the smaller ones will go down as low as eight. But this cat is almost forty pounds.
Whale Shark
The species was distinguished in April 1828 after the harpooning of a 4.6 m specimen in Table Bay, South Africa. Andrew Smith, a military doctor associated with British troops stationed in Cape Town, described it the following year. The name “whale shark” refers to the fish’s size, being as large as some species of whales, and also to its being a filter feeder like baleen whales.
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea that having a length of 12 meters and a weight up to 40000 lbs. They found in warm and tropical ocean waters across the world. The strong jaws and filters help whale sharks to consume a large amount of food quickly.
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Blue Whale
The blue whale is the largest known species of animal ever lived on Earth. A fully-grown blue whale has a body length of 30 meters and a weight up to 200 tons. They found in all oceans across the world. Interestingly, the tongue of a blue whale has the same weight of an elephant. Their groans and pulses can be heard from 1000 miles away. They also use such sounds to communicate with other whales..
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