Can you name the largest animal on earth? You might think it’s the elephant.
But the correct answer is actually a marine mammal–the blue whale. These enormous creatures can measure up to 100 feet long and weigh as much as 200 tons.
When it comes to land animals, however, the African elephant does top the list as the most corpulent (see definition below) animal, weighing about 7 tons.
Other weighty creatures include the white rhinoceros and the hippopotamus, both of which can tip the scales at up to 4 tons.
Even so, these animals still don’t compare to the massive size of the blue whale. Believe it or not, the blue whale sometimes eats up to 4 tons of krill a day.
Now that’s a very big meal!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: What types of advantages do you think that a corpulent creature might have in the animal kingdom?
CORPULENT: Fat, obese.
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