What is the largest land mammal on Earth?

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It is considered as one of the heaviest mammals of the earth as male adult white rhino weighs around 4500 kg so it is the second heaviest animal on earth. Hippopotamus Hippopotamus is the second largest land animal of the earth after African Elephant. read more

The largest land-dwelling mammal on earth, at seven tons, the African Elephant is an order of magnitude smaller than the Blue Whale (see slide #2) for a good reason: the buoyancy of water helps to counteract the Blue Whale's weight, and elephants are completely terrestrial. read more

The largest whale (and largest mammal, as well as the largest animal known ever to have existed) is the blue whale, a baleen whale (Mysticeti). The longest confirmed specimen was 33.58 m in length and the heaviest was 190 tonnes. read more