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WILD LIFE FACTS

MAMMALS • REPTILES • AMPHIBIANS • FISH • INSECTS • BIRDS

MAMMALS

Largest and Heaviest Blue Whale

Average length 30.5 m

Largest ever recorded 33.58 m

Pregnant female may weigh 203

tones

Smallest Land Mammal Kitti’s hog-nosed Bat (Found in

Thailand)2

Wing span 16 cm

weight 1.75 to 2 g

Smallest Marine Mammal Probably Heaviside’s dolphin(Found

in South Atlantic)

Length 1.22 m

Weight 41 kg

Rarest Mammal Rarest Mammal Aspecies of tenrec from Madagascar

is only known from a single

specimen.

Fastest Mammal Cheetah (found in Africa, Middle

East, W. Asia) can run at 100 kph

over short distances.

Pronhorn antelope (Found in USA)

Can run at 60 kph over long

distances.

Slowest Mammal Three-toedsloth (found in South

America) covers about 5 m a minute

in trees, and only 2 m aminute on







the ground.

Highest Mammal Yak (found in Tibet and China) climbs

to 6000 m to feed.

REPTILES

Largest and Heaviest Estuarine Crocodile (found in Asia,

Australia)

Average length (male) up to 4.3 m

Longest ever recorded 8.23 m

Largest Lizard Komodo dragon (found in Indonesian

Island)

length up to 3 m

largest Turtle Pacific leatherback turtle

Average length (male) up to 2.13 m

weight up to 363 kg.

Fastest Amphibian (On Land) Six-linedracerunner (found in USA)

can run at 29 kph

Fastest Amphibian (In Water) (In Water) Pacific Leatherback turtle

can swim at 35 kph

Longest Snake Reticulated Python (found in India

and South-east Asia)

Average length more than 6 m

Longest ever recorded 10 m

Most Poisonous Snake Sea Snake (found in North West

Australia)

Most Poisonous Land Snake Fierce Snake(found in Australia) has

most toxic venom.

AMPHIBIANS







Largest Amphibian Chinese gaintsalamander

Average length 1m

Longest ever recorded 1.52 m

Weight 11 to 13 kg.

Largest Frog Goliath Frog (found in Africa)

Length of body 33.5 cm

Largest Toad Probably marinetoad (found in South

America)

Length 22.9 cm.

Largest Newt Ribbed newt (found in Africa)

Length upto 40 cm

Weight 450 g

Highest Toad Common toad

One found in Himalayas at 8000 m

Most Poisonous Kokoiarrow-poison frog (found in

South America)

A tiny amount of toxin is enough to

kill a man.

Smallest Newt Striped newt (found in USA)

length 5.1 cm

BIRDS

Largest Bird (Flightless) North African Ostrich

Height (male) 2.74 m

Weight 156.5 kg

eggs up to 20 cm long

Largest Wing Span Wandering albatross (found in

Southern Oceans)

Average length (male) 3.15 m

Largest ever recorded 3.6 m







Smallest Bird Helena’s humming bird (found in

Cuba)

Average length (male) 5.8 cm

(head and body 1.5 cm)

Weight 2 g

Egg 1.14 cm long

Rarest Bird Mauritius Kestrel (found in

Mauritius)

About 5 are thought to remain.

Fastest Bird Spine-tailed swift (found in Russia

and Himalayas)

flies at 171 kph

Longest Flight Arctic tern

May cover 40,000 km a year

migrating from Arctic to Antarctic

and back.

Fastest Under Water Gentoo Penguin swims at 36 kph

Largest Nest Bald eagles

one was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep.

FISHES

Largest Fish (Plankton-eating) Whale Shark

Largest ever recorded 18.5 m long.

Largest Fish (Meat Eating) Great white shark (the man-eater)

Average length up to 4.57 m.

Heaviest Bony Fish Ocean sunfish is the heaviest

largest ever recorded 2.28 tonnes.

Longest Bony Fish Russian sturgeon or Beluga

Length up to 8 m







Fastest Fish Probably Sailfish

fastest ever recorded 109 kph

Most Poisonous Fish Stonefish (foundin Indian and Pacific

Oceans)

Poison carried in spines can cause a

person’s death within a few hours.

Most Electric Electric eel (found in South America)

can produce 400 to 500 volts.

INSECTS

Largest Insect Goliath beetle (found in Africa)

Weight (male) 100g

Longest Insect Tropical stick insect

Length up to 33 cm

Largest locust Swarn A Swarn of desert locusts that

crossed the Red Sea in 1889.

Swarn estimated to contain

250,000,000 insects

weighing about 500,000 tonnes and

covering 5,000 sq. km

Largest Butterfly Queen Alexandra bird wing (found in

Guinea)

Wing span 28 cm, weight 5 g

Most Dangerous Ant Black bulldog ant (found in Australia

and Tasmaina)

One bite can kill a man.

Fastest Wing Beat A tiny midge can beat its wings 1000

times a second.





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