Who wins in a fight, a leopard or a lion?
Lions can kill leopards alongside packs of painted dogs and hyenas, and leopards consider lions their greatest threat when choosing resting locations.
Physical Characteristics
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: To Shed Heat
Elephants use their large ears to shed body heat. Flapping turns each ear into a fan, and the broad surface of the ears lets heat escape quickly.
Black bear vs brown bear size: brown bears are generally bigger
A National Park Service analysis of 18 studies found brown bears generally larger than black bears, with males the larger sex in both species.
Paraceratherium: an immense giant rhino
Paraceratherium, an immense giant rhino, is believed to have stood 5.4 m at the shoulder and probably weighed around 30,000 kg, measured at 7.6 m long.
Heaviest published grizzly and brown bear weights
Published heavy figures: an estimated 1,200 pounds plus for one Katmai bear, and 1,500 pounds at the top of a male weight range.
Raccoon vs possum: how the raccoon and Virginia opossum differ
Animal Diversity Web lists the raccoon in the order Carnivora and the Virginia opossum in Didelphimorphia. See their looks, size and young side by side.
The biggest lion to ever exist? American and modern lions
The U.S. National Park Service describes the American lion as the largest extinct cat that lived in North America in the Pleistocene.
The biggest hippo ever recorded: a captive male at 4,500 kg
The Animal Diversity Web names a captive male in Munich, Germany, with a weight of 4,500 kg as the largest hippo ever recorded.
Who is stronger, a rhino or an elephant? Size and strength
Compare what is recorded for a rhino and an elephant: size rankings, weights in kg, the elephant’s trunk and tusks, and white rhino horns.
Are giraffes stronger than lions? What each can do
Giraffes defend themselves with a deadly kick, and lions are very muscular hunters. See what each animal can do, plus weights and sizes.