For a Kindergarten child it must be a bit difficult to imagine the size of the largest animal in the world. He definitely needed not only color illustrations but also captions that compared the world's largest beast to something he could see firsthand.
Conversation about the World's Largest
Beast, "The biggest animal in the world is as big as a house, isn't it?" One question the little girl who was so stunned to hear her older brother's words that there was the biggest animal in the world, bigger than the elephant they had just seen at the zoo.
"Whose house?" answer in the form of a question that is quite intelligent from his brother.
"If our house only has 2 bedrooms with a combined kitchen and living room, maybe it's still not big enough", the answer from the older sister who often reads the encyclopedia made the little girl even more stunned.
"How big is the biggest animal in the world?", with wide eyes he continued to ask.
“The largest animal in the world is only 30 meters long. So maybe our house will be added to Mr. Ali's house and Mr. Sayuti's house. That's just the length", the brother's answer made the younger brother leave the house and look at the three houses which have a width of 10 meters each. His little feet stepped slowly as he kept imagining how big the biggest animal in the world was.
"Surely the biggest animal in the world has a huge belly," said the little girl.
"Certainly. His tongue alone is as heavy as an elephant. Approx. 2700 kg. Especially the stomach. It must be very big,” said the older brother.
The conversation between the intelligent brother and the curious sister about the world's largest animal continues to the size of the heart and other facts regarding the Blue Whale which is believed to be the largest living animal in the world.
Of course the younger brother was even more astonished when he found out that the Blue Whale's heart was as big as Mr Bean's car, the Blue Whale's body weight was almost 400,000 kg, his heart was 600 kg.
"Is the Blue Whale just sleeping?" asked the younger brother.
“The Blue Whale is a great swimmer. They can swim 48 km/hour. Fast enough. Blue whales are mammals like humans. So the Blue Whale needs to breathe air. If he exhales the air, then the fountain comes out of his body, " continued the brother. That's a piece about the Blue Whale which is the largest animal in the world in terms of body size.
The World's Largest Animal of Various Kinds
Each type of animal usually has a body above the average of its kind. Of course, weight, height is a benchmark whether the animal can be categorized as the largest animal in the world. For example, there is a giant rabbit that has a height of 130 cm.
That means these cute, cute and very obedient animals are almost as tall as the average 5 - 7 year old. The rabbit named Amy who every day used to eat 12 carrots, 6 apples, 2 medium-sized cabbage, and 2 bowls of this grass mixture weighed about 33 kg. Of course Amy looks very big for her type which has a size of only about 50 cm with a weight of 7-9 kg.
In addition to Amy, which is categorized as the largest animal in the world for this type of rabbit, there is also Hercules. Hercules is a dog that is declared the largest dog in the world. Hercules' weight reached 282 kg. Its claws are the size of a softball.
Amazingly, Hercules gained his weight not because of being injected with hormones but growing naturally. The neck circumference of the largest animal in the world of this dog breed is 38 cm. Her face that is not as cute as Amy will surely make people who are afraid of dogs even more afraid.
But it turns out Hercules is less tall than Gibson, a dog declared by Guinness World Records as the tallest animal in the world, for the dog category. Gibson is over 2 meters or 7 feet tall.
There is also the largest animal in the world named Hercules. It seems that the valor of Roman mythological figures depicted with large muscles with broad chest and extraordinary strength, has made people name the largest animal in the world by the name of Hercules.
This Hercules is a Liger. Liger stands for 'Lion and Tiger'. Do not be surprised, Liger is indeed a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. Liger, which is recognized as the largest animal in the world, for this cat category, by the Guinness Book of World Records lives on Jungle Island in Miami. Liger weight reaches 900 kg. Not a child's toy especially if you want to sleep together.
The next largest animal in the world is an enormous ox. It weighs up to 1000 kg. If the price of one kilogram of beef is Rp. 67,000. That means the seller will get IDR 67,000,000 just by selling Chili, the name of the world's largest bull.
If the beef sells in one day, the profit is also quite good. What if there were only two Chileans. Then the seller can buy a Kiat Esemka car which is priced at IDR 95,000,000. The rest of the money can be used for a little extravagance.
In addition to weighing 1000 kg, Chile has a height of 1.8 meters when standing upright. Chilean food is definitely not hamburgers. Chileans eat grass during the day and at night Chileans eat kohlrabi, a type of German cabbage.
Besides Chile, the other largest animal in the world is Radar. Radar is a horse that is considered the tallest animal in the world, for the category of horses. He is the same height as Chile, 1.8 meters. The radar that lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas, weighs 400 kg. It's less heavy than Chile. But Radar drank more than Chile. He drank no less than 20 gallons of water every day and Radar ate 180 kg of wheat.
Imagine if the price of 1 kg of wheat is IDR 10,000 per kilo. So IDR 1,800,000 just to eat a Radar. Not the water yet. If one gallon is IDR 18,000, then IDR 360,000 for the water. It's hard enough for a breeder who doesn't really love Radar to support this extraordinary horse. But love can conquer many things. That's the cost of one of the largest animals in the world.
The world's largest animal for this type of pig is found in China. The pig, which is the largest animal in the world, weighs 900 kg and is 2.5 meters high. It's extraordinary the benefits of selling this one pork.
Unfortunately the pig is dead. In addition to a pig that is as large as a dinosaur child, there is also a catfish with a length of 2.7 meters. This fish caught in the waters of Northern Thailand is the largest animal in the world for the catfish category.
The world's largest animal for the Arapaima fish species or the world's largest freshwater fish is found in rivers in the tropics of South America. This fish can grow up to 3 meters and weigh up to 200 kg. If this fish is made into smoked fish or fish jerky, then it may be enough to feed 20 people a week.
In terms of length, Arapaima still loses to Goliath Tigerfish. The fish with the name taken from a giant in the story of the Prophet David has a length of 5 meters and weighs only about 77 kg. This carnivorous fish looks like a monster.