Blue whale |
1. Commonest animal | Homo sapiens (man) |
2. Fastest animal | Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus (112 km/hr) (found in Africa, Middle East, W. Asia) |
3. Fastest dog | Pertain grey Hound |
4. Highest Mammal | Yak (found in Tibet and China) climbs to 6000 m to feed. |
5. Highest sound (Among Land animals) | Howler monkey (South America; the sound will reach 16 km away) |
6. Largest and heaviest brain | Sperm Whale (around 9 kg) |
7. Largest and heaviest mammal | Blue whale (Average length 30.5 m). Largest ever recorded 33.58 m. Pregnant female may weigh 203 tones |
8. Largest animal | Blue whale (113 ft) |
9. Largest ape | Gorilla (Africa) |
10. Largest bat | Kalong bat |
11. Largest breed of dog | St. Bernard (130 kg) |
12. Largest carnivorous mammal | Kodiak beer (Alaska) |
13. Largest eyeball (among animals) | Horse |
14. Largest heart (among animals) | Giraffe |
15. Largest land animal | African elephant |
16. Largest monkey | Pygmy marmoset |
17. Largest primate | Gorilla |
18. Largest RBC in mammal | Elephant (94 µ) |
19. Largest snoring animal | Blue whale |
20. Longest ear (among animals) | African elephant |
21. Longest gestation period | Asian Elephant (Elephas maxima) |
22. Longest horns | Wild Asian Water buffalo (4.24 metres from tip to tip) |
23. Longest jumping animal | Kangaroo |
24. Longest neck (on land) | Giraffe |
25. Longest oesophagus | Giraffe |
26. Longest tail (on land) | Giraffe |
27. Lowest blood pressure | Spiny ant eater (Tachyglossus) |
28. Maximum number of teeth | Opossum (50 teeth) |
29. Maximum number of teeth in a placental mammal) | Horse (44 teeth) |
30. Monkey having largest nose | Proboscis monkey |
31. Most Food Consumed (Animal eating maximum food as compared to body size) | Pygmy shrew |
32. Most intelligent ape | Chimpanzee |
33. Most primitive Hominoid | Homo habilis |
34. Most primitive mammal | Echidna and Duck-billed platypus |
35. Most primitive primate | Lemur |
36. Organism having largest number of names | Puma (American lion) |
37. Rarest animal | Dosogale fontoynonti (Hedge hog) of East Madagascar A species of tenrec from Madagascar is only known from a single specimen. |
38. Second most intelligent mammal | Dolphin |
39. Shortest gestation period | American opossum (Diedelphis marsupials) |
40. Slowest mammal | Three-toed sloth (found in South America) covers about 5 m a minute in trees, and only 2 m a minute on the ground. |
41. Smallest ape | Gibbon |
42. Smallest cow | Vetchoor cow |
43. Smallest deer in Asia | Chou singa (4 horns) |
44. Smallest dog | Chihuahua |
45. Smallest eyeball (among animals) | Monkey |
46. Smallest heart | Lion |
47. Smallest Land Mammal | Kitti's hog-nosed Bat (Found in Thailand). Wing span 16 cm. weight 1.75 to 2 g |
48. Smallest mammal | Water shrew (Pygmy shrew) Kitis hog nosed bat (recently discovered smallest mammal- 11/2 g |
49. Smallest mammal | The vulnerable Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat (bumblebee bat; Craseonycteris thonglongyai) from Thailand and Myanmar (30?40 mm in length and 1.5 to 2 g in weight). Smallest mammal by mass: The Etruscan Shrew (it exceeds the Bumblebee Bat in skull size). Smallest mammal that ever lived: The shrew-like Batodonoides vanhouteni, weighed only 1.3 g. |
50. Smallest Marine Mammal | Probably Heaviside's dolphin (Found in South Atlantic). Length 1.22 m. Weight 41 kg |
51. Smallest primate | Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur (Microcebus berthae), found in Madagascar, with an average body length is 92 mm (3.6 in) |
52. Smallest RBC | Tragulus (Mouse deer- 2.5 micro m) |
53. Smallest ruminant mammal | Mouse deer of Africa (Chevrotain, 1 ft high) |
54. Strongest jaw (Among animals) | Hyena |
55. Tallest animal | Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) (Africa) |
Kitti's hog nosed bat |