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The heaviest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which has a weight of up to 10.1 t (11.1 short tons).It measures 10–13 ft at the shoulder and consumes around 230 kg (500 lb) of vegetation a day.
The largest Alaska moose was shot in western Yukon in September 1897; it weighed 820 kg (1,808 lb), and was 2.33 m (7.6 ft) tall at the shoulder. [7] While the Alaska moose and the Asian Chukotka moose match the extinct Irish elk in size, they are smaller than Cervalces latifrons, the largest deer of all time. [8]
Eastern moose are the third largest subspecies of moose only behind the western moose and the Alaska moose. Males stand on average 1.7–2.0 m (5.6–6.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh up to 634 kg (1,398 lb). Females stand on average 1.7 m (5.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh on average 270–360 kg (600–790 lb).
The largest size this species can attain is 4,500 kg (9,900 lb), 4.7 m (15 ft) in total length, and 1.85 m (6.1 ft) tall at the shoulder. [91] It is slightly larger than the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), which can range up to a weight of 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). [92] The extinct Elasmotherium sibricum was the largest rhino to ever exist ...
The antlers are considerably larger than those of living moose, being on average over twice the volume of moose antlers. [30] For body size, at about 450–600 kg (990–1,320 lb) and up to 700 kg (1,540 lb) or more, [34] [33] [35] the Irish elk was the heaviest known cervine ("Old World deer"); [5] and tied with the extant Alaska moose (Alces ...
A bull moose can weigh around 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms), so there wasn’t much chance of them being able to pull it out safely. The moose didn’t swim toward the thick ice, so they tried to ...
The name "eland" is Afrikaans for "elk" or "moose", [7] from Dutch eland, from obsolete German Elend, probably from obsolete Lithuanian ellenis. [8] [9] When Dutch settlers came to the Cape of Good Hope, creating the Dutch Cape Colony, they named the animal after the large, herbivorous moose. In Dutch, the animal is called "eland antelope" to ...
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, males weigh about 6.0 tonnes (13,200 lb) on average. [14] The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. It was a male measuring 10.67 metres (35.0 ft) from trunk to tail and 4.17 metres (13. ...