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Nine-day weather at the Hong Kong Observatory

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The largest animal: the blue whale (average length 30 meters, weight 140 tons).

The largest land animal: African elephant (with an average weight of 7 tons)

The tallest land animal: giraffe (average height 5 meters)

The most primitive mammal: platypus

The warmest animal: polar bear

The largest feline: Siberian tiger (height 1 meter or more, body length up to 3 meters, tail length about 1 meter, weight more than 350 kilograms).

Hippo, the land mammal with the largest mouth.

The cleverest animal: dolphins

The largest bird: ostrich (with an average height of 2.5 meters and a maximum weight of 155 kg).

The largest bird: albatross (wingspan can reach 3-4 meters)

The earliest bird: Archaeopteryx (65438+400 million years ago)

The bird with the largest mouth: Toucan (the mouth is 24 cm long and 9 cm wide)

The smallest bird: hummingbird

The bird that flies highest: swan (as high as 17000m).

The coldest bird: penguin

The largest egg-laying bird: kiwi (the egg laid is five times larger than the egg)

The largest cartilaginous fish: whale shark (8 meters long on average, up to 20 meters long)

The fastest animal on land: cheetah (up to 130 km/h)

The fastest marine animal: swordfish (up to 190 km/h)

The fastest flying animal: frigate bird (up to 4 18 km/h)

Highest breed: Irish wolfhound (up to 150 cm)

The smallest dog breed: Chihuahua (generally weighing between 1 and 5 kg)

The tallest dog: Great Dane (usually more than 76 cm tall)

Oldest creature: Tongue-shaped shellfish (450 million years ago)

The largest jellyfish: Arctic jellyfish (the diameter of the umbrella cover can reach 2.5 meters).

The lowest multicellular animal: sponge.

Animals with the most teeth: snails (* * * have 14 175 teeth).

The biggest spider: the bird spider

The most common worm: earthworm

Longest mollusk: squid (longest17m, tentacles13m).

Animals with the most feet: millipedes (700 feet)

The longest insect: stick insect (up to 30 cm long)

The most exquisite nesting insect: bees

The insect with the strongest flying ability: locust (flying continuously for nearly 10 hours every day)

Insect with the most eyes: dragonfly (each compound eye consists of 280 thousand eye crystals)

Mosquitoes are the most harmful insects to human beings (the diseases they spread killed 3 million people in one year)

The most powerful insect: ants (which can support or drag away objects more than 300 times their own weight)

The strangest fish: hippocampus

The fish that flies farthest: flying fish (record: height 1 1m, distance 1000m).

The fish with the strongest discharging ability: electric eel (the highest voltage can reach 800 volts when discharging)

The fish that lays the most eggs: Molas (up to 300 million eggs at a time)

The laziest fish: fish

The largest amphibian: giant salamander (giant salamander)

The largest reptile: saltwater crocodile (up to 8 meters long)

The most primitive reptile: the spotted wedge-toothed lizard

Longest snake: Python (longest14.85m, weighing 447kg).

The most color-changing lizard: sanctuary

The most poisonous snake: sea snake (80 times more toxic than cyanide)

Longest-lived animal: turtle (the oldest turtle is over 300 years old)

The largest dinosaur: Zhenlong (42 meters long and weighing about 130 tons).

The smartest dinosaur: odontosaurus (IQ as high as 5.3)

Dinosaur with the largest claws: Diptera (claws more than 30 cm long)

The widest dinosaur: Ankylosaurus (the body length does not exceed 10 meter, and the body width can reach 5 meters).

The ugliest dinosaur: Houdanlong

The most powerful dinosaur: Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dinosaur with the Most Teeth: Duckbilled Dragon (960)

The smallest dinosaur: Neognathus (60 cm long and 5.5 kg)

The bird with the longest wings: albatross (generally up to 3.17m).

The slowest animal: the three-toed sloth (speed 100 m/h)

The animal with the longest hibernation time: Dormouse (hibernation time is 5~6 months)

Mammal with the shortest pregnancy: Daur pika (pregnant 15 days)