- African bush elephant ≈ 7 tons
Before you is a seven-ton answer to the question of what is the largest animal among land creatures. Due to its size and body weight, the elephant entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest land mammal. Among the Savannah elephants, there are also heavyweights. So, in Angola in 1974, an elephant weighing 12.2 tons was shot. Like their smaller counterparts, African elephants can use their trunks (which have over 40,000 muscles) to lift anything up to 180 kg. Unfortunately, the largest land animal does not have the largest population. Poaching kills 25,000 elephants every year.
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