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Top 10 Heaviest Land Animals on the Earth

1. African Elephant

Average Mass (lb) : 18,500 (8,500 kg)

Maximum Mass (lb): 27,000 (13,000 kg)

Average Length (ft): 21.85

2. Asian Elephant

Average Mass (lb) : 8,750 (4,200 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 11,000 (5,200 kg)
Average Length (ft): 19.5

3. White Rhinoceros

Average Mass (lb) : 5,000 (2,350 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 7,920 (3,850 kg)
Average Length (ft): 12.5

4. Hippopotamus

Average Mass (lb) : 5,250 (2,500 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 7,100 (3,400 kg)
Average Length (ft): 11

5. Gaur

Average Mass (lb) : 3,300 (1,600 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): unknown
Average Length (ft): 9.8

6. Giraffe

Average Mass (lb) : 3,000 (1,400 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 4,400 (2,100 kg)
Average Length (ft): 15.4

7. Walrus

Average Mass (lb) : 2,645 (1,200 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 4,500 (2,150 kg)
Average Length (ft): 11

8. Black Rhinoceros

Average Mass (lb) : 2,420 (1,150 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 4,000 (1,900 kg)
Average Length (ft): 11.25

9. Saltwater Crocodile


Average Mass (lb) : 1,700 (785 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 3,300 (1,600 kg)
Average Length (ft): 20

10. Wild Asian Water Buffalo

Average Mass (lb) : 1,684 (770 kg)
Maximum Mass (lb): 2,640 (1,250 kg)
Average Length (ft): 11.4

Rare White Kangaroos

Golden Tabby Tiger!!!!!!

The very unusual Golden Tabby Tiger is sometimes known as Strawberry Tiger has light gold fur, pale legs and faint orange stripes. Its fur tends to be much thicker than normal. There are extremely few Golden Tabby Tigers in captivity, around 30 in all.

A Golden Tabby Tiger is one with an extremely rare color variation caused by a recessive gene and is currently only found in captive tigers. It is a color form and not a separate species. These tigers tend to be larger and all Golden Tabby Tigers have mainly Bengal parentage like their cousins -the White Tigers.

Meet the Blobfish

A deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. The Blobfish inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania. The Blobfish live at depths where the pressure is several dozen times higher than at sea level. The flesh of the Blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than that of water. This allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. Its relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats by in front of it. It eats mostly urchins, mollusks and crustaceans.

The Blobfish resembles a lump of jelly, and sports a triangular face that seems to sport a miserable frown.

The Blobfish is not edible so its endangered status is from ‘being in the wrong place at the wrong time.’ Blobfish are being trapped in fish nets set by trawler fisherman.

Professor Callum Roberts, a marine expert from the University of York, has stated that ‘this miserable looking fish has a lot to be miserable about.’

In his book The Unnatural History of the Sea , Professor Roberts said: "Blobfish are very vulnerable to being dragged up in these nets and from what we know this fish is only restricted to these waters. The Australian and New Zealand deep trawling fishing fleets are some of the most active in the world so if you are a blobfish then it is not a good place to be. A very large amount of the deep sea is under threat from bottom trawling which is one of the most destructive forms of fishing. There are some deep water protected areas around sea mounts in the Southern Ocean but that is only really to protect coral and not the blobfish.”

Rare White elephant caught in Burma 'is omen of political change'

The female elephant was captured by officials on Saturday in the coastal town of Maungtaw in Rakhine state, according to news reports in Burma, also known as Myanmar.

She is aged about 38 years old and seven feet four inches tall, the English-language New Light of Myanmar said, although it did not mention where she would be kept.

White elephants are often depicted as snow white, but are in fact grey or reddish-brown in colour, turning light pink when wet. They have fair eyelashes and toenails.

Kings and leaders in Burma, a predominantly Buddhist country, have traditionally treasured white elephants, whose rare appearances in the country are believed to herald political change and good fortune.

The announcements of the discoveries of white elephants in 2001 and 2002 in Burma was seen by opposition leaders as bolstering support for their parties.

The South-East Asian country, which has been ruled by the military since 1962, is due to hold its first elections for two decades later this year, although a date has not yet been announced.

Earlier this month, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate and Burmese opposition leader, marked her 65th birthday under house arrest in Yangon.

The military regime has kept Ms Suu Kyi in detention for almost 15 years and she has been barred from running in upcoming elections that critics have denounced as a sham aimed at entrenching the generals' power.

Koala

Though often called the koala "bear," this cuddly animal is not a bear at all; it is a marsupial, or pouched mammal. After giving birth, a female koala carries her baby in her pouch for about six months. When the infant emerges, it rides on its mother's back or clings to her belly, accompanying her everywhere until it is about a year old.

Koalas live in eastern Australia, where the eucalyptus trees they love are most plentiful. In fact, they rarely leave these trees, and their sharp claws and opposable digits easily keep them aloft. During the day they doze, tucked into forks or nooks in the trees, sleeping for up to 18 hours.

When not asleep a koala feeds on eucalyptus leaves, especially at night. Koalas do not drink much water and they get most of their moisture from these leaves. Each animal eats a tremendous amount for its size—about two and a half pounds (one kilogram) of leaves a day. Koalas even store snacks of leaves in pouches in their cheeks.

A special digestive system—a long gut—allows koalas to break down the tough eucalyptus leaves and remain unharmed by their poison. Koalas eat so many of these leaves that they take on a distinctive odor from their oil, reminiscent of cough drops.

These plump, fuzzy mammals were widely hunted during the 1920s and 1930s, and their populations plunged. Helped by reintroduction, they have reappeared over much of their former range, but their populations are smaller and scattered. Koalas need a lot of space—about a hundred trees per animal—a pressing problem as Australia's woodlands continue to shrink.